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Originally published at Grasping for the Wind. Please leave any comments there.


I began working in the music retail business in January of 1988 at JR’s Music in Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, Illinois. When I started there as a manager trainee, the best selling music format was the vinyl LP, cassettes placed a distant second, and all of the CDs were ( Read more... )

Originally published at Grasping for the Wind. Please leave any comments there.


As Print On Demand (POD) and ebook publishing have grown in the last several years, the number of books going to print each year has exploded. With each year, it becomes easier and easier for anyone with visions of being the next J. K. Rowling to throw their work onto ( Read more... )

Originally published at Grasping for the Wind. Please leave any comments there.

This video has a really great discussion/roundtable on ebooks and their role in the publishing industry. The participants are not identified - perhaps someone in my audience knows who they are?