I became a teacher for the most ignoble of reasons. I wanted job security. Sure, I like kids. I like the idea that my job benefits others and might even occasionally change the direction of someone's life for the better. But, I also like vacation time, reasonable working hours and most importantly:...

One of the hats I wear in addition to publishing is teaching. I feel the two are intrinsically intertwined; one must create what one wants to teach. I am lucky enough to be able to do both, and as a teacher, I occasionally cannot ignore what is rapidly becoming the...

I'm drowning in memoirs. Not only are they slowly taking over the bookstores, but they are also crowding my inbox. I get countless queries concerning memoirs from hopeful authors every week, and I have several life stories staring at me in manuscript form right now.
Don't get me...

Before we grab our torches and pitchforks and lock the iPad and Kindle in the highest room of the tallest tower for destroying the sanctity of books, we should take a collective deep breath and remember that Amazon accounts for 10% of the book industry's sales. That said, Amazon's

In a desperate industry trying to scramble together 1% growth after being smacked with the Great Recession, the idea of saving the average publisher $40,000 every year should be a popular one. Add to that a 40% reduction of the industry's carbon footprint, amounting to the carbon output equivalent of...

More than once a week this year, headlines crossed my desk about the death of publishing, the demise of books, and the cold-blooded murderer that is the eReader. The Chicken Littles of the publishing world have clucked about lost points in retail sales of books and the increasing digital format...