Leah Hernandez has a story unlike that of most publishers. With a background in business, she...
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Episode 257: What Did the Funk Brothers Teach Us About Book Editing?
The Funk Brothers, the legendary bestselling band (possibly of all time) and house band of Motown...
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Episode 256: How Should A Publisher Change Distributors?
After the recent news of Small Press Distribution (SPD) closing, we thought it would be prudent...
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Episode 255: Bookstore Solidarity Project: Charlie's Queer Books
In 2013, we predicted that the bookstore model would shift to more specialized indie stores that...
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Episode 254: What Does a Publisher Need to Distribute Books?
Most small presses use a trade distributor. What do they do? What are the components of a...
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Episode 253: Bookstore Solidarity Project: Alibi Bookshop of Vallejo, CA
Nestled deep in the heart between San Francisco and Sacramento lives the Alibi Bookshop! This...
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Episode 252: How does a book publisher deal with failure?
Not everything that you do will be a great success. It's a matter of how we navigate these...
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Episode 251: Why Does Publishing Create So Much Waste (and what can we do about it)?
Largely due to consumer preference and obstinate legacy behaviors, the world of book publishing...
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Episode 250: Joe Biel awarded PubWest Innovator 2024 by Andrea Fleck-Nisbet
In February 2024, in Maricopa, AZ, IBPA's CEO Andrea Fleck-Nisbet awarded the PubWest Innovator...
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Episode 249: Bookstore Solidarity! Josh Christie of Print: A Bookstore
Print: A Bookstore has been a triumphant, bright light in envisioning what a bookstore could be....
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Episode 248: Which Publishers Grew 12% Over The Past Three Years?
The pandemic was an unexpectedly magical time for the publishing industry. Sales went up when...
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Episode 246: What is ONIX and do small publishers need to use it?
How does the entire world get information about what you are publishing? It's from a feed called...
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Episode 247: How Should Publishers Create Budgets and Predict Finances?
Many publishers find money to be very unpredictable and scary. So this week we take a look at how...
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Episode 245: Can Book Publishers Vertically Integrate? Blackstone Publishing President Anthony Goff
So much of book publishing is about distributing tasks, so how can publishers take more of these...
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Episode 244: 2023: A Publishing Year in Review
What was 2023 like for publishing books? This week on the pod, we review what happened, how our...
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Episode 243: What Did We Learn at Frankfurt Book Fair?
Frankfurt Book Fair is now the world's largest publishing industry show. It's open to the public,...
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Episode 242: How Should Book Publishers Talk About Current Events?
We live in an era where Hershey posts perspectives on trans rights and Heinz offers opinions on...
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Episode 241: How did we become the distributor for the new Lydia Davis book?
Popular author Lydia Davis decided that she no longer wanted her books sold on Amazon. So she...
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Episode 240: How does design build community bookselling? w/ Rick from Shop at MATTER
The Shop at MATTER has been an innovative bookseller and design studio for decades. For our...
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Episode 239: What is a Sales Conference?
In several previous episodes, we've made reference to presenting your books at a "sales...
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