Publishing Perspectives Article on Book Fairs Past and Present

Day one of Book Expo 2011 was great - saw many friends old and new...

Read my article from Publishing Perspectives recalling the many Book Fairs that I have attended over a 60 year (and counting) career. It is fun.

http://publishingperspectives.com/2011/05/no-business-like-show-business/

StoryCorps Update

I had previously posted the 40 minute StoryCorps PBS oral history interview with my two granddaughters on April 20th. Segments of the interview were rebroadcast on May 16th.

A listener to the rebroadcast send the following e-mail to the station:

"I was driving back to work near lunch time and listened to the StoryCorps interview with Martin Levin. That few minutes lifted my mood. I am 56 and after 13 months of unemployment, I finally had a job. Last week, I learned that my job will be eliminated as of 20 May. I am on the verge of losing almost everything now, and was wondering what to do. I thought my life was beyond repair at age 56, but listening to Mr. Levin, made me realize that I have many possibilities in front of me. He was 61 and started to fulfill a desire to become a lawyer.

I want to thank you for a story that was perfectly timed for me."

Yours truly,

Robert Moore

You may listen to the full interview here, or the rebroadcast in the StoryCorps Atlanta archive. Many thanks to StoryCorps and to WABE.org.

Don Linn to be Editor-in-Chief of the Golden Rules Newsletter

I am delighted to announce that Don Linn has agreed to be the Editor in Chief of the Golden Rules Newsletter that will be available exclusively to our readers!

Don has a a broad and diverse business background. He has worked as a Mergers & Acquisitions investment banker at two major Wall Street Firms, ran a large and diversified Agribusiness concern (including cotton and catfish farming) in the Mississippi Delta, and served as Head of Corporate Development for one of the country’s largest printers. In the publishing industry, he was in distribution (as owner/CEO of Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, which he sold to Perseus Book Group in 2006), publisher of The Taunton Press, and a serial entrepreneur.

He earned his MBA at Harvard Business School and graduated magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University. He is endlessly fascinated by the convergence of technologies with media and with the challenges and opportunities arising from their collision. Don will continue his consulting practice.

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StoryCorps Interview to air

Great news! WABE 90.1 in Atlanta have decided to air part of the interview I did for their StoryCorps project. It will air on Tuesday, May 17 around 7:30am and again around 12:20pm, and friends and family outside of Atlanta can stream WABE live from www.wabe.org.

It will also be on the StoryCorps Atlanta webpage beginning the day it airs and will remain on the front page for a week at which point it will be available in the online archive.

Dutch edition of All I Know About Management

Looking good! I am are very excited to share with you the cover to the Dutch edition of "All I Know About Management", from the wonderful publishing house of De Boekerij in Amsterdam.

Listen to my StoryCorps interview

PBS has graciously allowed us to make the entire 40 minute plus interview available!

Those who have heard it (other than family who cannot be believed) have said that it is warm, funny and very informative. I hope you enjoy listening to the interview as much as I enjoyed giving it. Listen Here.