Andrew Shaffer

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

With traditional publishing, books might be pulled due to plagiarism or libel -- but rarely for content, and especially not without a widespread outcry.

Howard Polskin

CEO and Editor in Chief, Thin Reads

These are the non-fiction subjects that Thin Reads predicts could find big readership on the e-book single format.

Steve Harmon

CEO of Taleee.com, The Consensus Engine

Fact is, tablets are not going away, despite the forlorn wishes of a company's CEO. Over 100 million were sold last year. And, millions of people are right now looking to buy a 7-inch tablet computer. What do customers from all over the world think?

Lillian Daniel

Lillian Daniel is the author of When "Spiritual But Not Religious" Is Not Enough

I am always carrying books around in the hope of reading them. It's as if I believe that if I continually carry piles of books from my church, to my car, to my home and then back to church again, the information from all those books will somehow just sink into my aching arms.

Magda Abu-Fadil

Director of Media Unlimited in Lebanon

The real question is: with bigger smartphones and smaller tablets, what's to become of content and how do you reinvent it? That and countless other q...

Michael Drew

Founder, Promote a Book

This is my strategy: get people interested in what you say. You have nothing to lose by introducing your ideas at little or no cost to an audience of people who would want to come back to learn more.

Michael_Levin

NYT Bestselling Author, Entrepreneur

Barnes & Noble is fighting the good fight, but it looks like it may be going down big time.

John Blumenthal

Former Playboy editor/Novelist/Screenwriter ('Blue Streak')

With one exception, all of my friends use computers. They also own smartphones. Most have an iPad, an iPod, a GPS, a Kindle or a Nook. They frequently shop on the Internet and use MapQuest. They have a Facebook page and get their news from the Web. Some play Words With Friends. The exception is Larry.

Justin Hernandez

Writer and author, 'Inside the Vortex'

Gay men are regarded as trendsetters, with people looking to us for indicators about where pop culture is heading. If you think I'm off the mark with that statement, take a moment to examine the music, television, art, and fashion landscapes over the past thirty years and then get back to me.

Phil Simon

Speaker, Author, Thought Leader

In its quest to kill Apple, has Google inadvertently empowered its rivals-and created new ones? We know that Google has created a monster in Samsung....

Jeff Paterson

Storyteller/Futurist

John Hunter, a teacher from Virgina, developed the World Peace Game over thirty years ago, teaching it all over the world to students as young as nine-years-old. A documentary covering the game process was made and in 2011, he gave a TED talk on his experiences, which Arianna Huffington named the top talk that year.

Bryan Young

Filmmaker and Writer

I've heard that Amazon's model isn't to sell 1,000,000 copies of a bestseller, but to sell 1 copy of a million poor sellers. To them, it's all the same. If they could do the same thing with marketing services to the same people, that would make lots of financial sense.

John Blumenthal

Former Playboy editor/Novelist/Screenwriter ('Blue Streak')

I've decided to turn to religion. No, I don't mean I'm going to pray to God so He'll bestow a million dollar idea upon me -- I've decided to invent a religion.

Holly Robinson

Author, 'Sleeping Tigers' and 'The Wishing Hill'

I'd heard all sorts of horror stories about writers giving away the bulk of their royalties to publishers that gobbled up profits in huge percentages. We indie authors keep most of our sales. Was I doing the right thing, saying yes to a publisher when I'd already done the tough work of going indie?

Calla Carter

Teen blogger and tech writer

Tablets are fun, but not functional. They may be great for playing Words With Friends or watching "30 Rock," but not quite ideal for composing long emails or working in Quickbooks.

Garrett Goodman

New media consultant, Paris

Although the differences between responsive and adaptive design are nuanced for the non-developer, the distinctions are increasingly important as publishers see more and more traffic come from mobile devices.