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By 800-CEO-READ
There seems to be less and less coverage of business books in the mainstream media. Major newspapers like The Boston Globe no longer run reviews. Fortune covers lifestyle books at best.
April 17, 2007
I want to add one more point to Rebecca's post on the Carol Hymowitz column. Hymowitz ends her piece with: What's missing from bookstores, it seems, are more titles that show how executives have reshaped businesses so they don't become obsolete in the digital landscape, and one that explain the
April 09, 2007
I think AdAge jumped the gun a bit in their accusation that Conde Nast's new business magazine, Portfolio, was going light on their book reviews. I think their coverage is through, critical, and refreshing. Roger Lowenstein (When Genius Failed) wrote an extensive review of Taleb's The Black
April 27, 2007
We tell authors and publishers all the time about the importance of the first 10 pages of a book. For Jack and I, the author has about three pages to catch our attention. If not, we are on to the next book.
March 19, 2007
I was looking through my new issue of Paste Magazine. Paste covers the indie scene, writing mostly about music, but more recently expanding into movies and books. It was an ad from music label Saddle Creek that made me chuckle: SADDLE CREEK NEW MUSIC FULLY BACKWARD COMPATIBLE WITH YOUR
February 19, 2007
Earlier today, a delivery man brought us this: Upon a closer examination, we found it was from an author: Inside was something edible. To my knowledge, it's our first ever front-cover-cake. So Jack had to try it out.
May 01, 2007
Seth wrote last week about business books and pondered why people don't read them. The whole post is a must read for our audience. Here is the killer quote: "If you went to a doctor who told you that she hadn't read a scholarly article or taken any training since med school, would you stick
May 07, 2007
This summer, 800-CEO-READ will become Porchlight Book Company.
August 07, 2019
Kate and I are at the kick-off of the O'Reilly Tools of Change Conference in NYC. People from all over the world are here for this year's conference; the MC just told us that attendance tripled over last year's inaugural conference in San Jose (Todd and Dylan were there). Today there are two articles
February 11, 2008
Frans Johansson's Medici Effect is now available for free as a pdf download from his website. It is an interesting experiment for him and his publisher Harvard Business School Press to see if you can give it away and improve sales of a two and a half year old book. Love seeing this kind of experimentation.
February 08, 2008
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