Gary M. Krebs

Publisher, Author, Screenwriter

"A lot of freelancers have incredible skills but don't know how to market themselves and no one knows what they can do. A simple thing like creating an online portfolio on a web page can go a long way."

Warren Adler

Author

Recently, I moved to another apartment. While moving in itself is a traumatic event, my principal problem is books. I have a huge collection of books.

Seth Godin

Author, "Stop Stealing Dreams"

We're heading to a world where there are just a handful of influential bookstores (Amazon, Apple, Nook...) and one by one, the principles of open access are disappearing. Apple, apparently, won't carry an ebook that contains a link to buy a hardcover book from Amazon.

Andrew Shaffer

Author, "Literary Rogues: A Scandalous History of Wayward Authors"

On February 18, PayPal contacted Smashwords with an ultimatum: Remove the "edgy" erotica, or face deactivation of their PayPal account. Since PayPal is integrated into the Smashwords website, Smashwords had no choice but to comply.

John F. Ince

Author, blogger, filmmaker and social entrepreneur

Strategic questions need to be answered. Does a eBook publisher focus on marketing, or content creation, or formatting?

Anne Hill

Author, Consultant, Radio Host, Public Speaker

Yet when the day comes that they change their policies to take more of our value, don't get caught without an independent web platform of your own. Start now to anchor that taproot in your own garden, and reap the benefits of your own hard work for years to come.

Joseph Sutton

Blogger, The Donnybrook Writing Academy

Publishers are going back to the drawing board to see where they can innovate with printed books to keep readers interested.

Dave Astor

Author, 'Comic (and Column) Confessional'

People who love novels almost never stop reading them. But some of us need to occasionally take a brief break from "heavier" novels, including cherished classics and the best of modern literature.

Earl Martin Phalen

CEO and Founder, Phalen Leadership Academies and Summer Advantage USA

"What you realize -- and this is the thing about kids -- is that you can read the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and they still love it. It gives you lifelong connections that you can't even begin to imagine."

Andrew Shaffer

Author, "Literary Rogues: A Scandalous History of Wayward Authors"

"When I read a book that's been painstakingly transcribed by hand, I'm handling an object that took a scribe six months to a year to copy," Johannes Franzen told booksellers at the 1564 Frankfurt Book Fair.

William Petrocelli

Author, Attorney, and Bookseller

What accounts for an upsurge in confidence among independent booksellers? In part, it's because of an increase in sales in many of these stores within the last quarter.

Karen Dionne

Author, Freezing Point, Boiling Point

I miss my Borders. The Borders bookstore on Hall Road in Utica, Mich. was my hangout. I'd drop in whenever I was in the mood to browse for books, and inevitably, I'd leave with great armfuls.

Nina Lassam

Marketing and Publishing Consultant

Rather than post one of her already completed works, Geragotelis opted to write a brand new story that appealed to what her target audience was currently reading: paranormal dramas with young woman protagonists.

John Bergquist

Director of Communications, Soma Games and Code Monkeys

I find myself troubled by the folks who seem to treat books as a kind of idol. It is almost always associated with a notion that books are natural and an iPad is un-natural.

Bruce Judson

Author, Former Senior Faculty Fellow, Yale School of Management, President, Judson Mobile

Today, the book industry is struggling to adapt to the digital transformation. At its core, digital information has a tough time establishing value in the eyes of the consumer

Jason Gilbert

The software that Apple introduced Thursday morning at its "Reinventing Textbooks" event represents many, many great things for education in America -...