tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81065329523738085092024-03-14T11:49:38.637-07:00Martin Levin & FriendsMartin Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495569066079486880noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8106532952373808509.post-65957568191745716642011-05-25T04:30:00.001-07:002011-05-25T04:33:22.843-07:00Publishing Perspectives Article on Book Fairs Past and Present<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; ">Day one of Book Expo 2011 was great - saw many friends old and new...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; "><br /></span></div>Read my article from Publishing Perspectives recalling the many <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1306323017_1">Book Fairs</span> that I have attended over a 60 year (and counting) career. It is fun.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; "><a href="http://publishingperspectives.com/2011/05/no-business-like-show-business/">http://publishingperspectives.com/2011/05/no-business-like-show-business/</a></span></div><div><br /></div>Martin Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197179508060748670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8106532952373808509.post-24797357224156877042011-05-20T12:19:00.000-07:002011-05-20T12:27:53.781-07:00StoryCorps Update<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><div style="font-size: 13px; text-align: left; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; "><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; ">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.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; text-align: left; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; "><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; "><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; text-align: left; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; "><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br /></span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; "><span><div style="text-align: left; font-size: small; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">A listener to the rebroadcast send the following e-mail to the station:</div><div style="text-align: left; font-size: small; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; font-size: small; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> </div><div><div><div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">"I was driving back to work near lunch time and listened to the </b><span style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; "><b>StoryCorps</b></span><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> interview with </b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Martin Levin</span><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">. 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 li</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; "><a href="http://www.pba.org/programming/programs/storycorps_atl/"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Text Color" border="0" class="gl_color_fg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">fe 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.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; "><br /></span></div><b style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 16px; border-collapse: separate; font-weight: normal; "><b style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">I want to thank you for a story that was perfectly timed for me."</b></span></div></b><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; "><br /></div><b style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 16px; border-collapse: separate; font-weight: normal; "><b style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Yours truly,</b></span></div></b><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; "><br /></div><b style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 16px; border-collapse: separate; font-weight: normal; "><b style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Robert Moore</b></span></div></b></div></div></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: left; font-size: small; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span ><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: left; font-size: small; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span ><span style="border-collapse: collapse; ">You may listen to the <span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6404021/01%20Story%20Corps%20-%20Interview%20with%20Martin%20Levin.mp3">full interview here</a></span>, or the rebroadcast in the <span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="http://www.pba.org/programming/programs/storycorps_atl/all/">StoryCorps Atlanta archive</a></span>. Many thanks to <a href="http://www.pba.org/programming/programs/storycorps_atl/" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102) !important; text-decoration: none; ">StoryCorps</a> and to <span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="http://wabe.org/">WABE.org</a></span>.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: left; font-size: small; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span ><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: center; font-size: small; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span ><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><div style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; "><a href="http://www.martinlevin.com/news/martin_grandchildren.jpg?attredirects=0" imageanchor="1" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102) !important; text-decoration: underline; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img border="0" height="133" src="http://www.martinlevin.com/_/rsrc/1303394275039/news/martin_grandchildren.jpg?height=133&width=200" width="200" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 7px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 7px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " /></a></div></span></span></div></span></div></span>Martin Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197179508060748670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8106532952373808509.post-50764664667938760682011-05-20T07:36:00.000-07:002011-05-20T07:42:52.078-07:00Don Linn to be Editor-in-Chief of the Golden Rules Newsletter<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: small; "><p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: black; ">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!<br /></span><br />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 <span>Mississippi Delta,</span> and served as Head of <span style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; ">Corporate Development</span> 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 <span style="border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); ">Taunton Press</span>, and a serial entrepreneur. </p><p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br /></p><p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> He earned his MBA at <span>Harvard Business School</span> and graduated <i style="color: black; ">magna cum laude </i>from <span style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; ">Vanderbilt University</span>. He is<span style="font-family: sans-serif; color: black; "><span style="font-family: serif; color: windowtext; "><span > </span>endlessly fascinated by the convergence of technologies with media and with the challenges and opportunities arising from their collision. </span></span>Don will continue his consulting practice.</p><p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br /></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="http://www.martinlevin.com/golden-rules-newsletter">Subscribe now</a></span> to the FREE Golden Rules Newsletter!</span></p></span>Martin Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197179508060748670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8106532952373808509.post-13233104732743858662011-05-16T06:11:00.000-07:002011-05-16T06:16:07.666-07:00StoryCorps Interview to airGreat news! <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">WABE 90.1 in Atlanta have decided to air part of the interview I did for their StoryCorps project. It will air <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1305551428_7">on Tuesday, May 17</span> around 7:30am and again around 12:20pm, and friends and family outside of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1305551428_8">Atlanta</span> can stream WABE live from <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1305551428_9"><a href="http://www.wabe.org">www.wabe.org</a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.wabe.org/">.</a></span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.wabe.org/"> </a><div><br /></div><div>It will also be on the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1305551428_10"><a href="http://www.pba.org/programming/programs/storycorps_atl/">StoryCorps Atlanta webpage</a></span> beginning the day it airs and will remain on the front page for a week at which point it will be available in the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1305551428_11"><a href="http://www.pba.org/programming/programs/storycorps_atl/all/">online archive</a></span>. </div></span>Martin Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197179508060748670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8106532952373808509.post-68393087973023866432011-05-09T07:44:00.001-07:002011-05-09T07:47:22.230-07:00Dutch edition of All I Know About Management<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFv32xH61prFSD4M71rNouXWOj6GnhkiT6nxH6G2y3OjzYcNXKo2TbeEj5nL-uXNunl2goNaLa729lO4_vCxjKE7r6uM5rYBgZ6PcuSDNy-CELk7aevrdRP_SJbxbTX8-uDUQUHzeNJog/s1600/dutch_martin.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 218px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFv32xH61prFSD4M71rNouXWOj6GnhkiT6nxH6G2y3OjzYcNXKo2TbeEj5nL-uXNunl2goNaLa729lO4_vCxjKE7r6uM5rYBgZ6PcuSDNy-CELk7aevrdRP_SJbxbTX8-uDUQUHzeNJog/s320/dutch_martin.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604727521561981714" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >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. </span></span></div>Martin Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197179508060748670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8106532952373808509.post-64326725844346793212011-05-05T08:08:00.001-07:002011-05-05T08:08:43.091-07:00Listen to my StoryCorps interview<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-size: medium; "><span><span><span style="font-weight: normal; ">PBS has graciously allowed us to make the entire 40 minute plus interview available!</span></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-size: medium; "><span><span><span style="font-weight: normal; "></span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-weight: normal; "><br />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. <a href="http://bit.ly/j3WmNz">Listen Here.</a></span></span></span></span></div>Martin Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197179508060748670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8106532952373808509.post-57709152052826564082011-04-28T10:30:00.001-07:002011-04-28T10:30:40.640-07:00Book Expo America 2011<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><div style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; "><span >This year's Book Expo America trade show at New York's Javits Center is coming up on May 24-26, and I have taken booth #4306. I hope to see you there! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; "><span ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; "><span >Let's meet and take a picture together, and I will give you a free, personally signed copy of the hardcover edition of <i>All I Know About Management I Learned From My Dog</i>, a Reader's Copy of the forthcoming <i>Letters From Angel</i>, and we can share our dog pictures and stories. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; "><span ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; "><span >There are limited times available: I will sign books on the 24th, 25th, and 26th from 10:30-12:30, and you can sign up in advance by emailing me at <a href="mailto:mlevin7276@aol.com" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102) !important; text-decoration: none; ">mlevin7276@aol.com</a>. I will confirm your appointment by return email. See you there. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; "><span ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; "><span >Martin</span></div></span>Martin Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197179508060748670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8106532952373808509.post-40291891040480301122011-04-21T11:01:00.000-07:002011-04-21T11:01:18.378-07:00All I Know About Management on BeliefnetNice feature about All I Know About Management on <a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat/2011/04/management-lessons-learned-from-a-dog.html">Beliefnet.com</a>!Martin Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197179508060748670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8106532952373808509.post-81313450650174529592011-04-21T07:05:00.001-07:002011-04-21T07:11:56.831-07:00PBS StoryCorps<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLXLmUttjiVxXoWmygygVFH-B-DInb1Rqx6iv1sigAqQEcq_q9lWeHIZOt2cCzq369kcBDhTsyUd5Y9tiR3Ypz4OSjjb-Cjfep52NZRO-1NO6h5qz0ixnB9AZl5lVfD-wm6PuY4kj4G9I/s1600/martin_grandchildren.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLXLmUttjiVxXoWmygygVFH-B-DInb1Rqx6iv1sigAqQEcq_q9lWeHIZOt2cCzq369kcBDhTsyUd5Y9tiR3Ypz4OSjjb-Cjfep52NZRO-1NO6h5qz0ixnB9AZl5lVfD-wm6PuY4kj4G9I/s320/martin_grandchildren.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5598037843340969314" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; ">This photo was taken after I appeared on the PBS StoryCorps program - an oral history project to provide a legacy for the future. I was invited and appeared at the PBS station in Atlanta Georgia on April 17th, and the interviewers were two of my grandchildren, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; ">Zoe Crowe and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; ">Jennifer Goebel. The interview ran over 40 minutes and portions of the interviews are played on NPR and on line each week. The producer of the Atlanta show called it one of the best interviews she had ever heard! I will be posting a link to the interview soon.</span></div>Martin Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197179508060748670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8106532952373808509.post-47707795295377575392011-04-05T11:19:00.000-07:002011-04-05T11:38:56.042-07:00New features on my website<div>The website for my writing now has a few great new features. Visit now and you can read the first 36 pages of <i><b>All I Know About Management I Learned From My Dog</b></i>, subscribe to my free quarterly Golden Rules newsletter (and, for a limited time receive a reader's copy of my next book, Letters From Angel), see a slide show featuring Angel, and more. </div><div><br /></div><div>I'm off soon to the London Book Fair and will be reporting back. In the meantime, please take a look at my site!</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.martinlevin.com">http://www.martinlevin.com</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Martin</div>Martin Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197179508060748670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8106532952373808509.post-82711593168168088622011-03-25T07:23:00.000-07:002011-03-25T07:40:55.775-07:00Amazon and B&N now shipping, London Book Fair news<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOYZ82WoGrYDKbJRaf1rl0zCk3aNH4FvjBi1SSCF5mZXLUPCceh5zO-pwi5gDcYIYBGCkW-1ISwuXJobLzl9dgfqqCscKZ1QZbhGAWYC5MpLmya0YK8XHmfZanTOL5zjy4qQSozWki0wE/s1600/jacket+1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 135px; height: 202px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOYZ82WoGrYDKbJRaf1rl0zCk3aNH4FvjBi1SSCF5mZXLUPCceh5zO-pwi5gDcYIYBGCkW-1ISwuXJobLzl9dgfqqCscKZ1QZbhGAWYC5MpLmya0YK8XHmfZanTOL5zjy4qQSozWki0wE/s320/jacket+1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588026479758445842" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; "><br /></span></div>Great news! The first edition of <i>All I Know About Management I Learned From My Dog</i> is now shipping from Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble well before the "official" on sale date of April 12. Angel and I would really appreciate your buying a copy and posting a review. Or, send it to me so I can share it. </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; ">In other news, I am all set to be at the London Book Fair from</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; "> April 10 to April 14th. Lots going on - I am representing a US-based juvenile publisher with $4 million revenue, profitable, and I am also available to discuss not only <i>All I Know About Management I Learned From My Dog </i>(shipping from Amazon and B&N in the US<strong> now,</strong> rights sold in 7 countries) but also my upcoming book <i>Letters from Angel</i><b>, </b>which will be available in October 2011. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; ">We will have readers copies of <i>Letters From Angel</i> at the fair, and there are </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; ">great reviews on both books. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">Buy the book from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/All-Know-About-Management-Learned/dp/1616083247/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1301063712&sr=8-1">Amazon.com</a> or <a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/books/product.aspx?page=index&prod=univ&choice=allproducts&query=978-1616083243&flag=False&ugrp=2&EAN=9781616083243">Barnes and Noble</a> now!</span></div>Martin Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197179508060748670noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8106532952373808509.post-65759052863680498212011-03-21T07:11:00.002-07:002011-03-21T07:41:30.830-07:00Meet the new star!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilU47ZHGX62_lqdJLpMwEhGnDTzcl2s3L_67uEO5cWQlKtT5tTw2p4oNDjcJjTOM1EM_lyjm4_6gudgXJBQwOwNPvrvTN71i0tnM70mZOmN7WEvjNn9itkNnL7ba55Et0XOhCAxC7lw28/s1600/Harvey_retriever.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 234px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilU47ZHGX62_lqdJLpMwEhGnDTzcl2s3L_67uEO5cWQlKtT5tTw2p4oNDjcJjTOM1EM_lyjm4_6gudgXJBQwOwNPvrvTN71i0tnM70mZOmN7WEvjNn9itkNnL7ba55Et0XOhCAxC7lw28/s320/Harvey_retriever.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586535836974344322" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span id="role_document">It is with great pleasure that I introduce the new star, 14-week-old true <span><span>Golden Retriever </span></span>Harvey, who takes over from Angel - a tough act to follow. Harvey is available for <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1300716257_1">personal appearances</span> in memory of <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1300716257_2"><span><span></span></span></span><span><span>Angel on April 12, 2011, the publication date of A</span></span><i>ll I Know About Management I Learned From My Dog.</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><i>All I Know About Management I Learned From My Dog</i> will be published by <span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/details.php?TitleID=1012">Skyhorse</a></span> on April 12, 2011, and is available for pre-order now at <span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/All-Know-About-Management-Learned/dp/1616083247/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1300228712&sr=1-1">Amazon.com</a></span>,<a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/books/product.aspx?page=index&prod=univ&choice=allproducts&query=978-1616083243&flag=False&ugrp=2&EAN=9781616083243" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 136, 187); "> </a><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/All-I-Know-About-Management-I-Learned-from-My-Dog/Martin-Levin/e/9781616083243/?itm=1&USRI=all+i+know+about+management+i+learned+from+my+dog">Barnes and Noble</a></span>, <span class="Apple-style-span"><u><a href="http://www.borders.com/online/store/TitleDetail?type=0&catalogId=10001&simple=1&defaultSearchView=List&keyword=all+i+know+about+management+i+learned+from+my+dog&LogData=%5Bsearch%3A+64%2Cparse%3A+69%5D&searchData={productId%3Anull%2Csku%3Anull%2Ctype%3A0%2Csort%3Anull%2CcurrPage%3A1%2CresultsPerPage%3A25%2CsimpleSearch%3Atrue%2Cnavigation%3A0%2CmoreValue%3Anull%2CcoverView%3Afalse%2Curl%3Arpp%3D25%26view%3D2%26all_search%3Dall%2Bi%2Bknow%2Babout%2Bmanagement%2Bi%2Blearned%2Bfrom%2Bmy%2Bdog%26type%3D0%26nav%3D0%26simple%3Dtrue%2Cterms%3A{all_search%3Dall+i+know+about+management+i+learned+from+my+dog}}&storeId=13551&sku=1616083247&ddkey=http:SearchResults">Borders.com</a></u></span>, <span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781616083243">IndieBound</a></span>, or your favorite online retailer.</span></span></span></div>Martin Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197179508060748670noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8106532952373808509.post-29477828034581584802011-03-16T10:03:00.000-07:002011-03-16T10:30:33.957-07:00The Unknown Author - Revealed<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">I do not know why it was such a shock to me when Linda Biagi, who represents Skyhorse in selling foreign rights, reminded me that I should be grateful for 7 deals she made. “After all, she said, you are an unknown author”.<span> </span>It never occurred to me that after decades in publishing and being the “go to guy”<span> </span>approving deals with authors such as Stephen King,<span> </span>Erica Jong, Ken Follett, Robert Ludlum, Harold Robins, Gay Talese, that I would be “unknown”. And beyond my connection with authors,<span> </span>how could an “unknown “ who with his<span> </span>partner<span> </span>made the deal that allowed the Reader’s Digest to be published in the Soviet Union<span> </span>without censorship.<span> </span>Or that in 1999, the Association of American Publishers, gave me a lifetime award.<span> </span>My mind ticked off the events of the past and considered how could anybody be “unknown” when he went to law school at night while holding his full time job running the fifth largest book publishing company, graduating at 65, passing the bar and having a very successful law practice, and at 92 write not one, but two books that will be published…..and so on, and on.</p><p class="MsoNormal">I was delighted that at least one person, Joan Lappin, was paying attention and wrote it all down in a review of my book, “<i>All I Know About Management I Learned From My Dog</i>.”<span> </span>I met Joan in 1969.<span> </span>She was the young analyst assigned to cover the Times Mirror Company. She was very, very good at what she did, getting important information for her clients that no other analystwas able to get.<span> </span>Her style was to ask only a few questions during the open session, then wait until the room cleared to ask you the tough questions. I knew I could expect a telephone call from her after the announcement of the earnings report and to hear the usual, “ tell me about this.”.<span> </span>She knew the industries she covered, made money for her clients, and then went on to establish Gramercy Capital Management which she still runs.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Until I read her review, I did not realize she knew so much about me. I am like most authors. We live with a book for a long time (and in this case a dog, too) so that once the book is published, we are not sure if we achieved what we set out to do.<span> </span>We need the reaffirmation from readers and reviewers. Angel taught me that “management” need not be that complicated. Joan showed me that I really was not “ unknown”. I would be pleased if you would read her review that follows.<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Thank you, Joan.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="http://blogs.forbes.com/joanlappin/2011/03/15/all-i-know-about-management-i-learned-from-my-dog/">Click here</a> to read Joan's review and article at <a href="http://blogs.forbes.com/joanlappin/">Deduced Reckoning</a>, her blog on <a href="http://www.forbes.com/">Forbes.com</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>My book, <i>All I Know About Management I Learned From My Dog,</i> will be published by <a href="http://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/details.php?TitleID=1012">Skyhorse</a> on April 12, 2011. Available for pre-order now at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/All-Know-About-Management-Learned/dp/1616083247/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1300228712&sr=1-1">Amazon.com</a>,<a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/books/product.aspx?page=index&prod=univ&choice=allproducts&query=978-1616083243&flag=False&ugrp=2&EAN=9781616083243"> Barnes and Noble</a>, <a href="http://www.borders.com/online/store/TitleDetail?type=0&catalogId=10001&simple=1&defaultSearchView=List&keyword=all+i+know+about+management+i+learned+from+my+dog&LogData=%5Bsearch%3A+64%2Cparse%3A+69%5D&searchData={productId%3Anull%2Csku%3Anull%2Ctype%3A0%2Csort%3Anull%2CcurrPage%3A1%2CresultsPerPage%3A25%2CsimpleSearch%3Atrue%2Cnavigation%3A0%2CmoreValue%3Anull%2CcoverView%3Afalse%2Curl%3Arpp%3D25%26view%3D2%26all_search%3Dall%2Bi%2Bknow%2Babout%2Bmanagement%2Bi%2Blearned%2Bfrom%2Bmy%2Bdog%26type%3D0%26nav%3D0%26simple%3Dtrue%2Cterms%3A{all_search%3Dall+i+know+about+management+i+learned+from+my+dog}}&storeId=13551&sku=1616083247&ddkey=http:SearchResults">Borders.com</a>, <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781616083243">IndieBound</a>, or your favorite online retailer.</span></p><div><span><br /></span></div><p></p>Martin Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197179508060748670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8106532952373808509.post-42066193789377189932010-11-16T23:34:00.000-08:002010-11-17T21:56:49.490-08:00An Angel Passes AwayAngel was put to sleep on November 13th in Sarasota, Florida - our winter residence. She was 15 years old. Angel was the inspiration for my book <a href="http://www.goldenrulesformanagement.com/"><u>All I Know About Management I Learned From My Dog</u></a>. She may not be here in person but she will be with us when our book is published in April 2011 by Skyhorse Press and distributed by W.W. Norton. <br />
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<span id="goog_232121460"></span><span id="goog_232121461"></span>Angel was on center stage for the almost five years that she was with us. She taught us many important things but in the last four months, as she struggled with a growth on the brain, weakness in her back legs, and a failing liver, she kept going, generously giving of her love. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWaT-KmgLwh06qXZE49WfIXyujJXKMrQK_Pzl_38GgW6ypPKQ-eIW9mL5TF3t2qXbVN-nYYAweCijjVGZ1f3G8xn6RIqNfE4tgkcEr2VRDG-zNduJccvpipzrEqmXR3ryACVil8RmcwfRx/s1600/AngelBeach_flipped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWaT-KmgLwh06qXZE49WfIXyujJXKMrQK_Pzl_38GgW6ypPKQ-eIW9mL5TF3t2qXbVN-nYYAweCijjVGZ1f3G8xn6RIqNfE4tgkcEr2VRDG-zNduJccvpipzrEqmXR3ryACVil8RmcwfRx/s200/AngelBeach_flipped.jpg" width="200" /></a>She was the force that drove the household. She walked as briskly and as often as we would take her, going as far as she could without a whimper. She loved to swim. And, as many of you have read, on October 2, just a little over a month ago, while we were in our house in Rye (which is located on the water) she disappeared in the late evening. She was out for her regular evening outing but slipped away while Paula was not looking, found her way in complete darkness down a 12-foot rocky embankment, and went swimming in Long Island sound. Paula, searching frantically with a flashlight, saw the sparkles on her collar and flew down the embankment, catching Angel just as she was paddling to get into the deeper water. Paula, shoeless, in her soggy nightgown, dragged Angel up to safety. Rather than being apologetic, Angel was frustrated and fretted at not being able to enjoy her midnight dip.<br />
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When we brought Angel to Sarasota, hopefully to spend the winter in a warmer climate, she was reunited with her friend Winnie - a one-year-old female small dog. Angel towered over Winnie, but when they met, Angel would chase after Winnie to show her affection, girl to girl. Angel had respect for males, including me, but she adored women, especially Paula. At the last hours of her life she sought me out for a treat, but cuddled up to Paula. <br />
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It was Angel that inspired me, as you will read in our book, to select “Perseverance” as the most important of the Four Golden Rules. She tried to keep going through her illness, despite the frailties of her body. She persevered with a passion. She walked to strengthen the back legs, took the medicines to get well. Her love never diminished, even when she was in pain. She played with her tiny friend Winnie as though she were a puppy. When the time came to go, she sat quietly in the back seat of the car on our way to the vet. When we took her into the room from which she would not return, she went gently, quietly seeking us out for a last pat on her golden coat. When the vet asked her to lie down for the injection, she obeyed with the signal dignity of a lady. As the injection went into her veins, she closed her eyes, accepted the relief from pain and passed on without a murmur to join the other Angels.<br />
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In death, as in life, Angel is an inspiration. Maybe Rule Five should be “Make Certain You Make Every Minute Count”, treasure the short time we have together, make certain that we use this time to learn, lead, love what we do, and when the time is right, leave in dignity.<br />
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Martin Levin <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG4xdyqPoS5TsaJkxrFILB_Q6zY9tfZi7pl52HDcO7nRs5PTvIFsVLm1kxHQVibyOZe8mFuv_WZHusMXX1DmBmAMTkgi4g9XYaENnsDNGZQ6E0BSdu3qHXDC3wIiIHd4ITvl8A6R-nQLlX/s1600/WalkingDog_v2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="103" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG4xdyqPoS5TsaJkxrFILB_Q6zY9tfZi7pl52HDcO7nRs5PTvIFsVLm1kxHQVibyOZe8mFuv_WZHusMXX1DmBmAMTkgi4g9XYaENnsDNGZQ6E0BSdu3qHXDC3wIiIHd4ITvl8A6R-nQLlX/s320/WalkingDog_v2.png" width="320" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8106532952373808509.post-16033432693991121652010-10-03T20:53:00.000-07:002010-10-03T20:54:51.648-07:00The Further Adventures of Angel<i>Most readers recall that Angel is a Golden Retriever who is featured in my book, “All I Know About Management I Learned From My Dog” to be published by Skyhorse Press and distributed by W. W. Norton in May 2011. <br />
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Angel is a wise and adventurous dog who at 15 years of age is having some health issues. She is making great progress and here is her latest adventure.</i><br />
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Angel decided last night, October 2, when Paula left her out for her 11:00 PM pee in the back yard to vanish into the darkness while Paula's attention was diverted. It was very dark, the moon was obscured and the temperature was a cool 55 degrees. The back lawn is about 50 by 100 feet and drops off into a deep water inlet leading into a Marina.<br />
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Paula realized when she could not pick up the sparkle from Angel's collar that something was really wrong. She rushed up the stairs, alerted me and found a flashlight. Both of us started searching in the dark. There was no sound or hint as to where Angel was until Paula surmised correctly that Angel had decided since it was low tide to walk down the 12 feet of exposed rocks leading to the water.<br />
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Paula climbed down the abutment in her night clothes, her flashlight finally picking up Angel swimming energetically away from the shore. Paula stepped into the muddy bottom and plodded until she could finally reach Angel who was just about to get into the deep water.<br />
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Paula turned Angel around and dragged her back to the shore and then, in her soggy PJs, Paula dragged a reluctant Angel, step by step, rock by rock, up 12 feet to the lawn. Angel in typical frustrated dog fashion, shook herself vigorously spraying even more water on Paula.<br />
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Angel was dragged back to the house and deposited by Paula in a warm soapy bathtub, looking frustrated that her first sign of progress, since her terminal illness was diagnosed, was interrupted so unceremoniously. After Angel was dried and brushed she walked to her Posturepedic mattress, turned over on her side, and was covered by a blanket to dream about her almost impossible dream. After the rescue and clean up, Paula got her hot shower and dry PJ's. <br />
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As for me, I was the reporter on the scene keeping everyone up to date. <br />
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Martin LevinUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8106532952373808509.post-32419308036218590392010-08-10T23:45:00.000-07:002010-08-10T23:45:11.877-07:00Yale Publishing Course, July 18-23: A Smashing Success It is difficult to realize, even for those of us who were involved, that the Yale Publishing Course would be regarded by most of those who attended as a smashing success. The challenge was to create a meaningful course, a quality “student” body and a strong faculty in only four months. And this is what happened.<br />
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On the afternoon of July 18, 2010, the 86 seat capacity in the Greenberg auditorium on the Yale campus was filled with “students”—enterprising leaders in book, magazine and digital publishing. They came from 16 foreign countries and from 18 different states in the U.S. During the next week, the “students” met with the 40 members of a faculty comprised of industry leaders, experts, legendary publishers as well distinguished members of the Yale faculty. The intensive course started at breakfast and continued through the evening hours with frequent breaks allowing for networking. It was major download of crucial publishing information.<br />
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The goal of the course was to mark where the industry was, where it was going, and to have the faculty and “students” share their insights and experience about the ongoing reconfiguration of book and magazine publishing. At the end of the week, the post mortems indicated that students felt they were now better prepared to deal with the challenges that they faced.<br />
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It was also gratifying that the “students” who came to the course as strangers went home as colleagues. The applause for each other at the closing ceremony, where the certificates from Yale were awarded, demonstrated that in a week these students had developed a kinship with each other.<br />
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I am a very tough critic, and ever more when I am involved. However, the Yale Publishing course in its inaugural year made a significant contribution to the future of publishing. It set a very high standard for the years to come.<br />
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Martin Levin<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">NOTES</div><br />
Credit is due to Tina Weiner, the Director, who led the effort brilliantly along with her Assistant, Jackie. Don Filer the Director 0f International Affairs at Yale and Tina’s boss, a strong supporter and Linda Koch Lorimar, Secretary of the University, who gave this course a final blessing and its life. The course that Stanford University closed down permanently on January 5, 2010 would never have been if it were not for their work and support.<br />
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Credit is also due to the veterans of the Stanford Professional Publishing course: Robert Baensch who devoted his every free minute to the Yale course, Richard Stolley an icon in magazine publishing, Dorothy Kalins, Kevin McKean, Mary K. Baumann, Will Hopkins, Keith Clinkscales, Peter Kreisky and the scores of faculty and students who were there when support was needed. It was a long journey that began on August 5, 2009 when we first were told the SPPC was terminated. Special thanks to Paul Saffo, the leading expert in the future of technology and publishing. He is the longest serving member of the SPPC faculty. He came from his teaching post at Stanford to give the opening session.<br />
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Additional information about the notices from Stanford about the termination of the course can be found on this blog. For a complete description of the 2010 Yale Course go to Google for Yale Publishing Course.<br />
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Major challenges and opportunities (13:24)</div><i>Martin P. Levin, Counsel, Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="color: #cccccc;">__________________________________________________________________</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">(12:13)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Thomas Kjellberg, Counsel, Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman</i></div><b></b><br />
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<b>How to Handle Change</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">(22:44)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>John Kilcullen, Founder, IDG Books Worldwide</i></div><br />
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<b> The Changed M&A Marketplace</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">(17:31)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Robert Halper, Counsel, Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman</i><br />
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Author who has commitment from publisher is seeking an experienced book designer for a book requiring:<br />
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<li>Design of front matter</li>
<li>Interior page designs</li>
<ul><li>Creative separation of Part I and Part II</li>
<li>Design of four segments in Part II using full color PDF provided</li>
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</ul><div style="text-align: center;"><i>This is a challenging assignment for </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>an experienced designer. Prefer New York City location. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>To see mansuscript go to: <a href="http://www.goldenrulesformanagement.com/">www.goldenrulesformanagement.com</a>. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Apply with portfolio to Martin Levin at <a href="mailto:MLevin7276@aol.com">MLevin7276@aol.com</a>. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Owning a dog will help.</i><br />
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<span style="color: red;">NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS</span><br />
<div style="color: #999999;"><i>August 2, 2010</i> </div><i><span style="color: red;">__________________________________________________________________ </span></i></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8106532952373808509.post-37441449326799820852010-06-21T23:27:00.000-07:002010-06-21T23:32:15.622-07:00The Future Is Here<i>This is an update on previous posts concerning the termination of the Stanford Professional Publishing Course (SPPC) and the decision by Yale University to begin its course. The previous posts are now filed in the blog archive. </i><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Yale Publishing Course - July 18-23, 2010</b></div><br />
<div>The good news is that the Yale Publishing Course, announced on March 28, 2010 as a successor to the SPPC, will convene as planned in the new state of the art Greenburg meeting complex on the Yale campus and take place from July 18-23. The curriculum calls for a week of intensive sessions dealing with the leadership challenges in magazine, book and digital publishing.</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">In less that four months from the decision made in late March, the director, Tina Weiner, assisted by the advisory committee, developed the program and selected a faculty of forty-three industry leaders and technology experts as well as members of the Yale University teaching faculty. And, at the same time, students were recruited (thirty percent will come from outside the United States) to fill the auditorium and meeting rooms of the complex. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Great credit is due to Yale, its director, and the advisory committee that enabled this unique course to continue without interruption, enabling leaders in publishing to bring the future to the present.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Martin Levin</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>You will find full information concerning the course at </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="http://publishing-course.yale.edu/">http://publishing-course.yale.edu/</a> including the most </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>current course curriculum and session leaders.</i></div><br />
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Almost all of the SPPC faculty will move to the Yale Course. Go to <b><a href="http://publishing-course.yale.edu/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">http://publishing-course.yale.edu/</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> to get all the details:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> pictures of the classrooms and campus, the classroom schedule, and the faculty. Read the brochure and press the "sign up" button that will take you to the application process. The class size is set for 80 students. It is expected that 40 students will come from abroad.</span></b><br />
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<b>The Yale Publishing Course is the Only Leadership Course in the World for Mid Career Professionals in Book, Magazine, and Online Publishing. </b><br />
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Apply at <a href="http://publishing-course.yale.edu/">http://publishing-course.yale.edu/</a>.<br />
Course limited to first 80 accepted. Early application recommended.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: small;">Yale Launches Course for the Book and Magazine </span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-size: small;">Publishing Industry</span></i></b></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjocSZ_HKqHGErQSzHRUSDecY_QTeZokUb1Glz1zF9F6elulRNMECO8q4KozKRvQXy60j-VpGxEEN53Yw4QoaA7QNEeAY5ePnwlg-v-v_NLw4ohwjfsBgSODfI4Dh1LYGQp89ZcwDK_pP14/s1600-h/YaleBuilding.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjocSZ_HKqHGErQSzHRUSDecY_QTeZokUb1Glz1zF9F6elulRNMECO8q4KozKRvQXy60j-VpGxEEN53Yw4QoaA7QNEeAY5ePnwlg-v-v_NLw4ohwjfsBgSODfI4Dh1LYGQp89ZcwDK_pP14/s200/YaleBuilding.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><b>New Haven, Conn.—</b>Yale University will launch a new Yale Publishing Course this summer, bringing emerging industry leaders from around the world together with experts in their respective fields to tackle the most compelling issues facing publishers. The first session will be offered July 18-23, 2010, with subsequent sessions held annually. The week-long program is geared to middle- and upper-level professionals in the book, magazine, and on-line publishing industry. It will provide participants with the skills required to lead their publishing organizations during a time of accelerating change. <br />
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The Yale Publishing Course will fill the gap left by the closure of the renowned Stanford Professional Publishing Course (SPPC), which was offered from 1978 to 2009. Senior advisors to SPPC, Robert Baensch and Martin Levin, as well as publishing executives who have long been associated with SPPC, have joined the Yale program as advisors and lecturers. The Yale program will expand the international scope of the Stanford course and concentrate more heavily on the business side of publishing, with an emphasis on emerging technology.<br />
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The Course’s curriculum will focus on such topics as strategic planning, financial management and entrepreneurship; best practices in the use of new technology and content delivery; legal issues involving open access and intellectual property; and the future of digital dissemination. The program will feature lectures and seminars by distinguished members of the Yale faculty and publishing executives with proven records as innovators. It will also tap into the rich resources of the prestigious Yale University Press. Participants drawn from around the globe will be immersed in information on the latest technological advances and be exposed to cutting-edge thinking about the business of publishing as a global enterprise. While stepping back from their daily jobs, they will be able to reflect on broader perspectives, discuss strategies with their counterparts, and consider new approaches that will enable them more effectively to operate within their own organizations. The program will combine lectures with small discussion groups and provide ample opportunity for participants to meet informally with each other and with the presenters. The Course’s presenters will be available throughout the week to advise participants on a one-on-one basis.<br />
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The Yale Publishing Course will be held on the historic Yale campus in the state-of-the-art Greenberg Conference Center. The Course will join a suite of international senior leadership programs already in place at Yale, such as the Global Health Leadership Institute, the India-Yale Parliamentary Leadership Program, and the China-Yale Advanced University Leadership Program.<br />
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For more information on the Yale Publishing Course, contact <a href="mailto:publishing.course@yale.edu">publishing.course@yale.edu</a>.<br />
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It was a long time coming but after more discarded drafts than I would dare mention, the manuscript is finally done and it is now being posted in installments for you to read online. I am soliciting your comments, photos, and asking you to tell me about your own dog stories. <br />
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What I tried to do is to tell the story of how Angel made me rethink a 60 year career. You will find some stories that will make you laugh. You will meet some of those people, such as Stephen King, that influenced me and made my career interesting, informative and exciting. I look forward to reading your comments.<br />
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<i><b>I Learned From My Dog</b></i>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8106532952373808509.post-73243043898685873522010-01-12T11:44:00.000-08:002010-01-12T13:57:17.386-08:00Stanford Permanently Closes the Stanford Professional Publishing CourseEvery summer for the past 32 years book, magazine and digital publishers, marketers, advertising and circulation executives, editors, designers, writers and people in search of their next career have gathered on the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto California to attend the Stanford Professional Publishing Course (SPPC).<br />
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Mr. Michael Keller, after discussions, meetings with students, major publishing executives, and after reading the report of his “Surveyor”, has decided to “permanently close” the SPPC.<br />
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The SPPC was a week-long intensive course. It was the only one of its kind, where mid-career professionals from the U.S. and around the globe (40% of all attendees were from abroad) encountered the newest technologies, the smartest thinking and a community of their peers taught by a world-class faculty.<br />
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The need for a course that meets this need exists today more than any other time when both book and magazine publishing is in seismic transition. Members of the SPPC faculty are now working with universities who are currently deeply involved in publisher education and have an interest in offering an enriched Stanford-type program.<br />
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Michael Keller, on behalf of Stanford, has generously offered to assist in a transition by making available information that would be helpful. I will be keeping you up to date with our progress.<br />
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Martin Levin<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"></span><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8106532952373808509.post-40920421986615800142009-10-05T01:55:00.000-07:002009-10-06T10:58:21.061-07:00PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></b></div><span style="font-weight: bold;">Stanford Closes Publishing Course, and Studies Possible Successor</span><br /><br />The venerable Stanford Publishing Course for Professionals, serving book publishing and magazine professionals since 1978, has closed, a victim of both the economy and larger transitions in the program's core fields. Longtime director Holly Brady is leaving Stanford--saying she "expects to continue the conversation from another vantage point here in Silicon Valley"--and her staff has been dismissed. This move comes amidst broad cost-cutting at Stanford University, with the school recently disclosing a 27 percent drop in their endowment capital over the last fiscal year, with investment losses of approximately $3.5 billion. They reportedly cut over 400 positions earlier in the year and intend to layoff another 60 employees soon.<br />University Librarian Michael Keller, who oversees the SPPC along with Stanford University Press and many other resources, says that the publishing program "is believed not to be capable of self-sustaining status." Keller writes: "It is deeply troubling to all of us who have been involved in the SPPC over the years, but the recession is affecting the publishing industries and higher education, as it has all other sectors of the global economy. The other factors are, of course, the fundamental changes wrought by the digital information revolution and its many aspects, the changes in reading habits and expectations of consumers of professionally written, edited, and published information, and the perturbations in the advertising arenas, also brought by the World Wide Web." Paid course attendance reportedly declined significantly last year on both the book and magazine sides. Brady echoes that "the problem that got us here is, of course, the digital transformation of the business which has caused so many layoffs in the publishing industry, coupled with the recession. When a company has laid off dozens of people and is struggling to survive itself, it's hard to send staffers to Stanford," regardless of the potential benefits.<br /><br />Spurred by longtime SPPC faculty including Martin Levin, Dorothy Kalins and Paul Saffo, Keller has appointed managing director of Stanford University Press Geoffrey Burn as surveyor to study "whether another program with a revised pattern of revenue and a different programmatic governance structure might yield an SPPC that is self-sustaining." Other SPPC academic directors have joined in the efforts to enlist industry support to continue and reinvigorate the program and its reach.Keller, Burn and Levin will meet with course alumni at the Frankfurt Book Fair and are consulting with others in the book publishing community with interest and ideas for a revamped program. Burns's assessment and recommendations are due in January and Keller says he has reserved facilities for next summer "on the chance that the SPPC will be revitalized,...but there is no guarantee that the revitalization will occur."<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The above appeared in Publishers Lunch Deluxe on September 30, 2009</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Learn all about SPPC…</span><div><span></span><b><br /></b><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 385px; height: 126px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiyejJtaOBbbyAaZCcRZ38slzeUTwi5OY1KI4CGM_sxKtl0WBohmqHigbDhlBr5dCHGcNzxxoSCJmIfiqFOGBbLssmSP55W9Y0WP29HAkx7vs23Z6V-9YQxyVWFNUAKdAisRvWXiUhPRkh/s400/Blog_SPPC_Textbox_2.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389544370771141794" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Make 2010 possible by letting me hear from you… email me at MLevin7276@aol.com. See you in Palo Alto in July 2010.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">You can read all about the SPPC course and see photos of the students and faculty in action in the booklet below. To flip through the booklet click the right arrow, and to increase the size of each page click the Toggle Full Screen button in the top right corner of the Scribd viewer. If you wish to download and print a copy for yourself click this <a href="http://calcrew.dreamhosters.com/MartinLevin/SPPC_Brochure100dpi.pdf">download</a> link. </div><div><a title="View SPPC Brochure on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/20649632/SPPC-Brochure" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: auto; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; display: inline !important; text-decoration: underline; "><br /></a></div> <object codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" id="doc_261594462091504" name="doc_261594462091504" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" align="middle" height="500" width="450" style="width: 100%; height: 247px; "> <param name="movie" value="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=20649632&access_key=key-24poplj0hhgir431a5g9&page=1&version=1&viewMode=slideshow"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name="play" value="true"> <param name="loop" value="true"> <param name="scale" value="showall"> <param name="wmode" value="opaque"> <param name="devicefont" value="false"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"> <param name="menu" value="true"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"> <param name="salign" value=""> <param name="mode" value="slideshow"> <embed src="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=20649632&access_key=key-24poplj0hhgir431a5g9&page=1&version=1&viewMode=slideshow" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" play="true" loop="true" scale="showall" wmode="opaque" devicefont="false" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="doc_261594462091504_object" menu="true" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" salign="" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" align="middle" mode="slideshow" height="500" width="450"></embed> </object></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0