Why We Publish (addendum)
I referred in my last post to the many people who have already been helped by The Cure for Alcoholism. An interview with one of them is available here. …
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Why We Publish
I started BenBella because I wanted to change my life. I wanted to move from the fast-paced but intangible role of running consulting firms to the slower but more concrete world of books and writing, …
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Five Slightly Contrarian Book Marketing Ideas
So much excellent material is available on book marketing, and so, rather than rehashing that, I’d like to throw out a few ideas that I think are important but I don’t hear emphasized as much as they should be. …
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Publishing and The Black Swan
The Black Swan, by Nassim Taleb, is the best book on statistics I ever read. OK, that may sound like faint praise. But the book is one of the best books I’ve read in years. …
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Rethinking the Universe
Nothing has the capacity to make me feel stupid like reading about cosmology, something I, enthusiastically but masochistically, persist in. From the time I was a small child, I’ve been reading about the nature of the universe, …
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