Going Rouge Skewers Palin

Geoffrey Dunn, 10.31.2009

Award-winning journalist, filmmaker and historian

One thing is certain: You will read far more about the real Sarah Palin in Going Rouge than you ever will in her own memoirs, being published by (who else?) Rupert Murdoch.

Changing Media Platforms and the Book Industry (VIDEO)

Gary Vaynerchuk, 10.30.2009

Wine and marketing expert

My thoughts on changes in the book industry and why I love what Huffington Post is doing in this space!

Not a Simple Price War -- It's a Fight Over What You Get to Read

William Petrocelli, 10.28.2009

Author, attorney, and bookseller

What looks like a simple price war between Amazon, Target, and Walmart over a handful of bestsellers is symptomatic of a much deeper problem in the book business.

Bringing Sexy Back to Self-Publishing

Jonathan Fields, 10.27.2009

Blogger, serial entrepreneur, book marketer and author of Career Renegade

Most self-published books are, well, um, not good. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be written, though. If you're drawn to write and you love the process, go ahead and write.

Predators in the Book Biz

Bruce Harris, 10.27.2009

Publishing Consultant

The pre-printed price, establishing the value of a book, is the temptress that has seduced the biggest merchants in the country to go for each other's jugular.

Do Authors Still Need Publishers?

Mark Coker, 10.27.2009

Founder, Smashwords

Just as many entrepreneurs no longer need venture capitalists to launch their companies, authors no longer need publishers to publish.

Exclusive Preview of Oprah's Interview With Sarah Palin

Matthew Filipowicz, 10.26.2009

Comedian, Cartoonist, Satirist

What can be more rogue than going on the TV show of one of President Obama's biggest supporters?

Is 'The Help' More Than A Surprise Bestseller? Is It A New 'To Kill A Mockingbird'?

Jesse Kornbluth, 10.26.2009

Editor of HeadButler.com

I first heard about The Help soon after it was published in February. But it's 444 pages. I put it off. Very quickly, it became the #3 fiction bestseller.

Writing As Therapy: How Three Women Transformed Loss Into Longhand

Nancy Doyle Palmer, 10.23.2009

All three of these women have gone through significant and profound loss and all three are seriously the funniest people I know. Hard to pull off, but they do, in person and in their books.

I'm In Sales

Amy Dickinson, 10.23.2009

Columnist, "Ask Amy," and Author

What I learned during my book tour is that I was dying to have people actually read my book, and if they were going to read it, I was first going to have to sell it to them.

Fire Sale on Bestselling Books? Not Quite.

Geoffrey Jennings, 10.21.2009

Independent Bookseller, Rainy Day Books

For major online retailers the entire category of books is a loss leader. They want to sell you anything and everything; their lure is cheap books.

The Prolonging of Palin

Christopher Brauchli, 10.21.2009

Columnist and lawyer

The only question that is left is whether the promised popularity of her book says more about her or about those who buy her book.

Top Ten Outrageous Sarah Palin Stories Oprah Will Have To Address

Glynnis MacNicol, 10.21.2009

Senior Editor, Mediaite.com

In an effort to help Oprah prepare for her interview we've compiled a top ten list of of outrageous questions about Sarah Palin that will need to be addressed.

The Case of Richard Henne, or 'How Do We Know If News is Real?': MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer October 21, 2009

Shelly Palmer, 10.21.2009

President, National Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences, NY

On Monday I reported that authorities alleged that Richard Henne, the man who said his kid was in the balloon, had called a tv station before he cal...

Why Dan Brown's Science Fiction Is Mostly Fact

Lynne McTaggart, 10.19.2009

Journalist and Author

In a sizeable body of research exploring the nature of consciousness thoughts directed at targets in the laboratory have been shown capable of altering machines, cells and even complex organisms like human beings.

Will The Lost Symbol Kill Book Publishing?

Bruce Harris, 10.14.2009

Publishing Consultant

Pundits like to opine that blockbusters are really bad for the book business. I think differently. I don't think that blockbusters kill other books -- I think they nurture them.

Dan Brown's New Book, 2012 - Are You Ready for the Consciousness Shift?

Doc Childre, 10.12.2009

Internationally renowned stress expert

Many people are feeling a shift in consciousness happening now and some are predicting a major planetary shift around the year 2012.

Behind the Lost Symbol: Woo-Woo or Frontier Science? Part One

Alison Rose Levy, 10.12.2009

Health journalist, coach, and advocate, Media Director, Friends of Health

The Lost Symbol, catapulted into the mainstream the frontier science he calls "Noetics," an area of active research for over twenty-five years, which he characterizes as humanity's best hope.

What a Difference a Year Makes: Lessons From a Family $1,000 Away From Homeless

Karen Talavera, 10.07.2009

Blazin' Change Agent

Among all possible parties to play the role of eleventh-hour savior for Debbie Hobson, there was our good ol' US government -- the IRS no less -- just doing its job.

Political Celebrity and Publishing Tastes

David Colbert, 10.06.2009

Author, former editor and agent

Angry books sell on emotion. That's why they'll always sell better than cooler, thoughtful books. It's also why they're soon forgotten.

Why Books Are Still Central to Our Political Culture

Howard Dean, 10.06.2009

Former Governor of Vermont and DNC Chairman

Despite ongoing changes in technology, communications, and culture, books are consistently at the leading edge of new ideas, new social and political movements and new policy directions.