Bad Electronic Publishing Ideas
Here is an essay written by CEO Curt Matthews of IPG (CCC PUblishing's distributor) that will run in a future Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) newsletter that may be of interest.
Four Really Bad Electronic Publishing Ideas that Are Finally Going Away
Information Wants to Be Free
My travel book "Sacred Places North America (2nd ed.)" has won the BATW Gold Award (First Place winner) for the 2010 Best Travel Book for the Planet Earth category. The Bay Area Travel Writers judging committee had the following to say about the title:
It was just announced that "Sacred Places North America (2nd ed.)" by Brad Olsen (that's me!) has won a Gold Award! It is the First Place winner of the Best Travel Book for the Planet Earth category. This is quite a honor, and my first time to take home the Gold! Fitting especially with the Winter Olympics about to begin in Vancouver.
For the last year I have been working for another publisher who produces photo-script podcasts called Visual Travel Tours (VTT). They were soliciting travel writers to contribute content for a new medium and delivery system over the Internet that got me excited. Being in the book and traditional print industry for the last 15 years I have seen a lot of indie bookstores close and the book business rapidly consolidate in this relatively short period. For example, when I started out in publishing in 1995, the Book Expo trade industry show (then called the ABA) was a 4-day long affair.
Dear Karen,
 
I wanted to write to you to express my gratitude for your show about the Divine Feminine. I have had an incredible experience as a result of your show, and hope from my heart of hearts that I can relay it to you now.
I am 23, and I am an artist living in Los Angeles. I was raised with the Divine Feminine in a place and time where that was highly uncommon, and came of age as my mother undertook her own spiritual journey through the Feminine.
Voices of the Sacred Feminine Internet Radio Show
Hosted by Karen Tate
Wednesday Evenings 6PM Pacific/9PM Eastern
Listen Live or At Your Convenience from the Archives
 
Guests & Show Topics in March:
3/4 -- DeAnna L'am - Red Tents in Every Neighborhood -- Menses and Rites of Passage for Girls
 
So This is What a Paradigm Shift Looks Like!
 
Making the Right Brain Shift
 
The City that Ended Hunger
A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: end hunger.
by Frances Moore Lappé
"To search for solutions to hunger means to act within the principle that the status of a citizen surpasses that of a mere consumer." CITY OF BELO HORIZONTE, BRAZIL
 
NEW YORK (CNN) -- As we mark International Women's Month in March, it is encouraging to see that the movement to recognize the vital role that women play in families, nations and economies has been building for more than a decade and that developments in the past few years have shown that real progress has begun to take hold.
 
Hi Everyone!
I want to share the email I received from Larry, an informed and enlightened guy who gets it! Larry deserves to be applauded and all men like him! Here goes...
 
Last night, CARE had a fundraiser to support women all over the world, in their efforts to organize and fight poverty, hunger, discrimination, ignorance, ethnic hatred, and lack of medical awareness and care. It was called "A Powerful Noise," and featured a documentary by that name, and a live
