AtlasBooks Distribution Blog

Peace on Earth. It is post-Christmas, but we still hear the echoes of the holiday music in our heads. We know songs that talk about peace on earth, yet we know that peace is far away for many around the world. We want to take a time out from publishing news and tips to highlight [...]

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I just got back from a family vacation at Disney World. Nothing beats leaving snow to go play in the sun (though it was unusually cold this past week in Florida, yuck!) The point of a vacation is to try to leave work behind, but of course when you spend hours each day thinking about [...]

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It is still the beginning of December, and best of the year lists are everywhere. We’ve seen them: books, music, movies, restaurants, sports teams, actors, atheletes, the list goes on. Just today Shelf Awareness highlighted the latest list of best of the year lists: The New Yorker offers its reviewers’ favorite titles from 2010. The [...]

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Each week we highlight and expound on a question or section from our Publisher Resources page on our website. The more you know, the better you can publish, so we invite you to check out the information we offer. This week we will look at printing, one of the 5 P’s of publishing a quality [...]

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At BookMasters, we get to work with a lot of great publishers. Publishers tend to be passionate and interesting people. Because we do not focus on a particular market segment, we get to talk to people with a wide variety of interests. On a given day, we could talk to a scholarly publisher, fiction publisher, [...]

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Everyone has good things to say about themselves. Most people go into business because they believe in something and are passionate about sharing that something. Then they tell others about it and it is called marketing and publicity. We certainly have good things to say about ourselves at the BookMasters Group. We fill a need [...]

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My son loves books. He will devour any he can get his hands on. Literally. He is six months old and loves the sound of pages crinkling and, without my intervention, those crinkling pages automatically go from hand to mouth. He is not yet a reader, but I think it is safe to say he [...]

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Bookstores are those wonderful places where books make it from writer to the reader. There are often steps in between, but this is where the on-the-ground action happens. We have all kinds of bookstores now, of course. There are the quirky independents; the chains; internet stores; specialized stores like college, Christian, children’s, new age, gay [...]

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I like to consider myself a life-time learner. Books are, of course, a great tool to learn new things. But today, I want to focus on people. I think mentors are great. In our competitive society, it is refreshing to find people who are willing to share their insight and knowledge, and don’t see sharing [...]

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We are thankful for our blogs. They give us a chance to communicate with our publishing partners. We usually post tips for publishers and authors, industry news, and other interesting tidbits. We always want to be improving our blogs, so if you ever have any questions or anything you would like to see us post [...]

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