I wanted to pass on this email from a reader…both because I enjoyed it and because it demonstrates just how books get sold. (Not primarily through ads in the New York Times, in short.) Dear [...]
Some time ago an alert reader sent me a copy of this book cover, which he’d noticed on Amazon: The book was self-published through Amazon and apparently no copies are available, so I have [...]
Here’s AudioFile’s take on the 22.5 hour (!) audiobook version of The History of the Medieval World: THE HISTORY OF THE MEDIEVAL WORLD : From the Conversion of Constantine to the [...]
We arrived yesterday at the Javitz Center for BookExpoAmerica, the big annual trade book fair attended by hundreds and hundreds of publishers, all with new releases to promote. (I’ll post [...]
I’ve been at the Midwest Homeschool Convention in Cincinnati since Thursday. This has turned into one of the largest conventions in the country–I heard an estimate of eleven thousand [...]
Mollie, who’s the marketing director at Peace Hill Press (the small press I run in Charles City), has a multimedia experiment in the works: populating the Peace Hill Press Youtube channel. [...]
After giving my faithful readers a chance to point out any blog reviews that I might have missed, I summoned my lovely assistants to help me carry out the drawing for the winner. Ben cut apart [...]
Thanks to all of you who responded to my blog review offer! Here’s a list of the blog reviews that we know of. Enjoy reading, if you feel so inclined. And if you reviewed the book and [...]
Today’s the formal release date for The History of the Medieval World. It’s actually been shipping for weeks; “publication day” is a myth, as I’ve noted before. But [...]
(Not to be equated with “Big Foot Sightings” or “Jersey Devil Sightings.”) This, from Tantor Media; The History of the Medieval World will be on audio! Twenty-two and a [...]
A few months ago I saw this news item: LONDON, 2 November 2009 — This November HarperCollins and Skype have created an innovative world first event – ‘Cecelia Ahern’s Virtual [...]
If you’re within a comfortable distance of Washington D.C., check out the seminar I’m doing at the Smithsonian on May 1: The Well-Educated Mind: A Self-Guided Classical Education [...]
