Never forget that the boy band juggernaut was concocted and executed by a roly-poly man in Florida who had visions but no connections. You see success in the arts always takes place in the head.  It’s conception.  Creativity comes in a burst. Who has the perseverance to make it real? The story about Amanda Hocking […]

What I hate about America is marketers insist on overdoing it.  They all believe we live where there’s no cable TV, no magazines and no Internet and therefore they must plaster their product across all media just in case we go to the metropolis to get smokes or beer and stumble upon media accidentally and […]

"Digital Sales Outstrip A Hardcover’s Debut" Unfortunately, this content is behind a pay wall.  But it states that Harper, for the first time sold more copies of a title in e-book form than hardcover.  Over the initial twelve days of sales, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s "The Dressmaker of Khair Khana" sold 6,500 digital copies as opposed […]

Square.com Did you know you could lend Kindle books? Miss one day in the news cycle and you’re out of it.  Don’t follow people on Twitter and you miss the heartbeat of the street. Friday night, Ian Rogers of Topspin retweeted Jill Sobule’s tweet: "Need a Square credit card reader to sell merch at our […]