Think Outside The Book
Following from our previous post “Can a Book Summary Be Worth More Than The Book?” we ask all our authors reading this: Why are you writing your book? From an author’s point of view, you may dearly love everyone to read your book from cover to cover. However, which is better… for one person to […]
Chip Kidd talks about Book Cover Design
How do you design a cover for a book? I’ve confronted this challenge a number of times with my dozen books. The obvious thought and the default for many books (you only have to look at your own library of books) is to simply put the title in big bold letters on the cover, add […]
The E-Book Revolution by Gihan Perera
Given I’m re-inventing Book Rapper at the moment, I’m on the look out for comments, thoughts and takes on books, e-books and publishing. Here’s a webinar and interesting take on ebooks by Internet Coach Gihan Perera. It’s called The E-Book Revolution. He makes the point that instead of selling ebooks for their own sake, the […]
Book Rapper Hits 50,000 Downloads
Stunning News! This very morning, the 50,000th issue of Book Rapper has just been downloaded. How cool is that! What this means is… This is the number of Book Rapper issues downloaded from the Book Rapper web server according to the web stats. It doesn’t include issues downloaded from other websites, passed on by email or […]
Who Are You Learning From?
The importance of learning ‘The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.’ –Alvin Toffler [Updated December 2021] Just saw an interview on the TV with World #3 Surfer Josh Kerr. He’s considered one of the most exciting young surfers […]
Book Rapper: Kill or Commit? The Big Decision
Bad news… The number of subscriptions received was only 30% of what I had as my pass mark to revive Book Rapper. Good news… A couple of other opportunities have been created that make Book Rapper viable. Therefore, I’m pleased to announce that Book Rapper is being revived. Yippee! I’m pleased about this! Hope you […]
Lesson 7: Design To Be Shared
As part of the Commit or Kill campaign for Book Rapper, here’s Book Rapper Lesson #7. Crucial Decisions One of the early crucial decisions for Book Rapper was the format of the RAPs. I opted for Adobe’s PDF format. This had a couple of advantages. I could design the RAPs in Adobe InDesign and then […]
Lesson 6: Find Out What You’re Great At
As part of the Commit or Kill campaign for Book Rapper, here’s Book Rapper Lesson #6. My Gift What’s the best way to find out what you’re great at? When I started Book Rapper, I didn’t know that I had a gift for sifting through information and pulling out the big ideas. I just read […]
Lesson 5: Keep Changing Stuff
As part of the Commit or Kill campaign for Book Rapper, here’s Book Rapper Lesson #5. Who am I? What I’m about to share with you is not textbook stuff. You’re unlikely to hear it said ‘this is the way to do it’. And, it worked for me. The first ever issue of Book Rapper […]
Lesson 4: Build Your Identity
As part of the Commit or Kill campaign for Book Rapper, here’s Book Rapper Lesson #4. What Do You Do? I’ve had some interesting experiences running Book Rapper. One of the most profound is being introduced as ‘The Book Rapper’. It typically looks like this… I meet someone and they ask the usual “What do […]