The future of books: Biblion
Mike and I are watching the evolving world of publishing and this will be a series of new developments in what used to be known as “books”. This a new iPad app from the New York Public Library System. It’s...
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Seth Godin on the future of libraries (and librarians)
In an ebook-dominated world everyone can carry and access a library anywhere. So where do librarians fit in? Seth nails it in this thoughtful post. I love the idea of a library as a central meeting place for working on ideas and projects with the librarian as curator and guide. Maybe not such a quiet place (you can set aside space for that), more like a cafe/open office/info access...
read moreExcerpt from ‘How To Expand Your Life’
An excerpt from our recent title, How To Expand Your Life, now available for Kindle from Amazon: “The concept of a ‘body of work’ is central to expanding your life. Artists are not measured by being ‘one hit wonders’, they are measured by the extent and quality of their work over time. This is generally true of any profession or avocation. If you do your inventory and it includes a...
read moreQuick post on Twitter ‘amplification’
I’m restarting my mixed relationship with Twitter. You can follow me at @24pagebooks. I don’t spend a lot of time on it as I’ve always been a bit ambivalent about its value. However Eric at Techcrunch gets a major aspect of Twitter right after last night’s news of Bin Laden’s death: Twitter doesn’t replace the news, it amplifies...
read moreSubject matters: What we’re writing about
The 24PageBook concept is niche expertise and some bigger subjects. What does that mean? It means that all kinds of subjects are being suggested for books, including many that we would never have thought of ourselves. For example we met with a woman this morning who is a subject matter expert on kids with autism (she has two) and we talked about the community of parents and the day to day things...
read moreHow much is your time worth?
It generally takes about an hour to read through one of our books. In that hour, if we do our job well, you should have a working understanding of the subject matter, enough to know what you don’t know. We write and edit 24PageBook titles with your time in mind. I don’t believe that the publishers of unnecessarily long how-to books think about this at all because they are in the...
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