James D. Best

JR Sanders posted a Facebook reference to a new reading technology. Instead of words spread across a page or screen, a stream of words is p...

I was looking at my recent book sales and saw that a vast majority of them were e-books. Was the oft predicted demise of traditional books u...

I was reading BuzzFeed’s  “ 10 Lovable Things About Brick-And-Mortar Bookstores ,” when I saw a photo that tugged my memory back to my ...

Charlie Jane Anders wrote a piece for io9 about How to Write Descriptive Passages Without Boring the Reader or Yourself . Her article inclu...

Amazon has an under-publicized program called Matchbook. By enrolling in this program, a publisher can offer a Kindle book at a steep disco...

If you're behind in your Christmas shopping, I have a suggestion. Actually, it’s the same suggestion I make every year about this time ...

The digital revolution continues to roil publishing, so here are a few of my recent observations. I suspect at least three of these five ar...

Ron Scheer writes reasoned and comprehensive book reviews, so I was a little nervous when he accepted a review copy of The Return . I n...

I normally read three to four books simultaneously. When I tell people this, they immediately asked if they are fiction or nonfiction. ...

Those of you who follow this blog probably know my wife and I are moving from Arizona to Nebraska....

It’s fun to watch sales when a new book comes out. Even though the official release date is August 15 th , The Return has been available s...

Publishers Weekly has an article that estimates the number of sales required to reach a Top 5 ranking on Amazon. Something doesn’t loo...

An article in the  Wall Street Journal  got me thinking. Single-tasking has become a luxury. L. Gordon Crovitz's article is titled “...

In the olden days—like maybe four years ago—Kindle and Nook readers were fairly tolerant of formatting errors. The technology was brand span...

I've been tracking print versus eBook sales for years. In 2008, my print sales were four times my eBook sales. In 2009, three times....

How to Stand Out in the Biggest Bookstore in the World Amazon is a vast book market. The size is a magnificent opportunity and a huge ...

I'm conducting a webinar today at 2:00 PM PST at Book Street Cafe. This is a new membership site for publishers, authors, and publishi...

The Kindle version of The Shopkeeper has moved to the Number 1 bestselling Western on Amazon for print or eBook formats. The print ver...

The print edition of Murder at Thumb Butte, a Steve Dancy Tale is now available at Amazon, Books-a-Million, and Barnes and Noble. (The off...