James D. Best

Many years ago, in what seems like a prior life, I wrote a nonfiction book on enterprise computing. At the time, I was a Chief Technology Of...

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...

Many people are unaware that Amazon has a program called Matchbook. If the publisher enrolls their books in the program, Amazon purchasers...

Kim McDougall of Castelane, Inc. recently wrote to  ask for permission to re-publish  on the new  Castlelane website   an article I wrote f...

I returned from my trip to Nebraska to find a publishing contract from Center Point for The Return, A Steve Dancy Tale . They’re a gr...

Orgainc? Now that's embarrassing.  A couple weeks ago, I went through the galley proof for The Return and found over twenty change...

Book cover design is an art ...and I am not an artist. At least, not a visual artist. Previously, I posted a mock-up of the book cover for ...

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

The Washington Post has done an article on the perils (and rewards) of being a midlist novelist.  Interesting reading. Mary Doria R...

Wordpreneur has a regular feature called Peeps. These are short pieces about indie-authors and they were gracious enough to do an arti...

I’m reading a thriller from a big name author. It’s a bestseller published under a Simon & Schuster imprint. Yeah, I found a few typ...

Zane Grey The three greatest icons of the Western novel are Zane Grey, Max Brand, and Louis L'Amour. Sure, other authors have writ...

Huffington Post Books published an article titled " Bad Reviews Of Great Authors. "   When you get a bad review of your work, i...

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat. Seneca (c. 5 BC-AD c. 65), Roman writer A friend of mine unintentionally ch...

I'm a compulsive reader. I read everything and I read all the time. I suspect it started when I was in the fifth grade and I spent my...

Books are popular gifts, and the Christmas buying season has traditionally been the best month of the year for book sales. It still is ....

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 ...

Flavorwire has published an article about why authors write. There are many links to source material which are fun to explore. “Th...

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...

Laura Hazard Owen has written an interesting piece about BookExpo America titled 5 things the book industry will be talking about ne...