by Dan Cafaro | Dec 27, 2010 | Publisher's Thoughts
KENSINGTON, MD — If you aren’t paying attention or you’re buried somewhere under a three-and-a-half foot drift of snow, you may be missing one of the most fascinating multimedia developments in the book publishing industry. There’s nothing new under...
by Dan Cafaro | Aug 30, 2010 | Publisher's Thoughts
I am done with prolific novelist Robert B. Parker. No longer will I waste my time with another one of his putrid Spenser novels. As a publisher and admirer of literary fiction, I vow to retire from the abhorrent habit and guilty pleasure of intermittently reading a...
by Dan Cafaro | Aug 20, 2010 | Publisher's Thoughts
KENSINGTON, MD — Leave it to me for waiting a good four months before reacting to this news. Sometimes, as Bob Dylan warbles, “it takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry,” and it takes way too much time for startling industry news to penetrate this...
by Dan Cafaro | Aug 4, 2010 | Publisher's Thoughts
KENSINGTON, MD — Should I feel guilty that I don’t much mind seeing Barnes & Noble hunched over in pain? In fact, there’s a large part of me that doesn’t much care if the entire C suite of B&N executives is shaking in its imperialistic boots,...
by Dan Cafaro | Jul 1, 2010 | Publisher's Thoughts
BRANT BEACH, N.J. — When people ask me what I do for a living and I answer, “publish books,” the sensible follow-up question I often get is “what kind of books?”. It’s here I usually stumble for my best choice of answers. If I simply say,...
by Dan Cafaro | May 17, 2010 | Publisher's Thoughts
IBPA Article: A Sterling Justification of a Publisher’s Existence In these evergreen days of rampant self-publishing, when everyone and his brother has decided that they don’t need no stinkin’ publisher to publish their book, it’s gratifying to...
