Issue 14   August 5, 2010

Selling Gift Cards on Your Website You Can Do It Better by Robert Sindelar Looking for ways to improve your website? How about the use of Gift Cards. Robert Sindelar, Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, Washington, shares what he did. Read On! [FULL STORY]

Book Buying and Your Privacy ACLU/Amazon Lawsuit Have you ever wondered if government agencies conduct sweeping collections of your most personal and private information, including the books you buy online? Or if they even have a right to? These questions seem to be creeping more frequently to the front minds of our internet savvy generation. Read On! [Full Story]

People In The Industry Second Careers, or Why You Never Really Leave Publishing www.publishingperspectives.com by Chip Rossetti In the fall of 2004, I was an editor at a New York publishing house, acquiring serious narrative nonfiction and history. I had been working in trade publishing for nine years. I had also, in the wake of 9/11, been studying Arabic in the evenings, going to a teacher’s house in the outer boroughs once a week for lessons over his dining-room table. Learning another language — and a desire to immerse myself in it by moving to the Middle East — was the first step toward what I thought was a change in career. Read On! [FULL STORY]

Southern Review News http://www.anvilpub.com/southern_review_of_books.h... by Noel Griese News includes: Marketing books: what’s new, what works and what doesn’t Movie critic Ebert, fed by tube because of cancer, pens cookbook The publishing revolution: News of e-books and other new media Ron Paul’s e-books now available exclusively on Kindle LibreDigital lands $8.1 million to accelerate delivery of e-books Read On! [FULL STORY]