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Wayne Johnson

Business

Saving Jobs That Don’t Exist

02/07/2017 Wayne Johnson

Our new President has promised to increase the number of manufacturing jobs in America pointing out that we’ve lost 5 million manufacturing jobs since 2000. Laying the blame for these [CLICK TO READ MORE]

Books

Book Biz: Chicago Book Expo 2016, Not Exactly New York (thank God)

06/22/2016 Wayne Johnson

After skipping the last six or seven NYC Book Expos I was anxious to see what the 2016 Chicago version would be like. Frankly, I liked it. Sure, the energy [CLICK TO READ MORE]

Books

Book Biz: What Went Wrong at Borders, Clemens Library Gets 1851 Press

05/19/2016 Wayne Johnson

RR Donnelly Closing OR Book Plant RR Donnelly has announced it is closing its Gresham OR commercial and book printing plant August 1, leaving 113 workers unemployed. In 2006 Gresham [CLICK TO READ MORE]

Books

Book Biz: Computer Ransomware, Tablets vs. eReaders, Publishing Data Faulty

04/28/2016 Wayne Johnson

Bad People Will Do Bad Things to Your PC…and Your Mac There are a lot of bad things ready to attack your computer. For years we called them all viruses, [CLICK TO READ MORE]

Books

Book Biz: Flexible Smart Phones, Books and Beer at B&N, Bookstores Rebounding

03/14/2016 Wayne Johnson

Amazon Likes Brick and Mortar… After testing the water with a real store in Seattle, Amazon would ultimately like to open 300-400 physical bookstores nationally. I’m guessing B&N would be [CLICK TO READ MORE]

Editor Picks

Hubris and the Children of Flint

02/03/2016 Wayne Johnson

Hubris. It’s a word not commonly used anymore. Maybe because it’s been around for 2,500 years and most words have a finite life-span. But it’s a good word. Aristotle said [CLICK TO READ MORE]

Books

Book Biz: Audio Books Surge, eBooks Sag, Quitting Amazon

01/12/2016 Wayne Johnson

Best Covers – 2015 I love great book covers. Like the Supreme Court judging pornography, I can’t define them but I know them when I see them. I could spend [CLICK TO READ MORE]

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Books

Book Biz: Carmen Sandiego is An App, Amazon Builds a Bookstore, Ordering Scholastic Books at School

12/08/2015 Wayne Johnson

Today, Scholastic Publishing may be best known for bringing the stories of Harry Potter into our homes. Even though the J. K. Rowling series had been successful in the UK, [CLICK TO READ MORE]

Books

Book Biz: Collecting Cookbooks, Banned Book Week, Literary Taverns

10/05/2015 Wayne Johnson

I’ve heard book collecting is a neurosis, but all collectors, of everything from little silver souvenir spoons to juke boxes of the Benny Goodman era, function outside the bounds of [CLICK TO READ MORE]

Books

Book Biz: Decorative Bindings, Book Zones, Amazon to be Investigated?

09/05/2015 Wayne Johnson

A couple of the newsletters I got last month reminded me that book ornamentation need not be confined to ornate covers or a profusion of graphics sprinkled through the text. [CLICK TO READ MORE]

Books

Book Biz: Audio Book Sales Surge, Authors Sue Amazon, Facebook to Set Up Book Store Fronts

08/11/2015 Wayne Johnson

Amazon Sued Again Authors United (AU) and the American Booksellers Association (ABA) have partnered in a lawsuit charging Amazon with monopolizing book sales. Did the authors and book sellers just [CLICK TO READ MORE]

Books

Book Biz: Paperback Book Covers of Yore, No More Archie Comics, Princeton Gets Gutenberg Bibles

03/10/2015 Wayne Johnson

My best English teacher in high school frequently remarked that the entire literary world was turned upside down by the introduction of inexpensive paperback novels. The class yawned as one. [CLICK TO READ MORE]

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