Will B & N continue bleeding?

Barnes and Noble redesigned their storefronts to highlight their own e-reader device. Was it worth it? Nook lost about $55 million on $153 million in sales — scary numbers by themselves. Even scarier was the both device and content sales were down versus the...

State of Wonder

Getting lost in a book or bookstore is one of my favorite activities, so when I get a book recommendation based on other books I’ve read, I’m excited.  Reading Ann Patchett’s State of Wonder, transported me back to the world of Barbara...

Bookless Libraries?

Should libraries be completely bookless or should it be a hybrid? BiblioTech isn’t being built as a replacement for the city’s existing library services, but as an enhancement and a way to provide library access to citizens in “unincorporated areas of the county” who...

Internship Opportunity

To whom it may concern: Harrelson Agency and Harrelson Press are offering a joint summer internship for high school or college students interested in design, publishing, and where those two fields intersect. The internship period will run for six weeks beginning July...

Conferencing

Whenever I go to a conference, I am always excited and renewed and also overwhelmed. I am overwhelmed with my social awkwardness, but I am also overwhelmed with the wide number and variety of stories that are walking around on two legs. Most people would call them...

Creating E-Books

It takes trial and error and hard work. Are you up for it? But like any entrepreneurial experiment, creating ebooks requires trial and error to figure out a process that works best for you. These eight tools will make the experience of creating your first ebook...