Scripture verse: Isaiah 7:14 The First Noel is of classical Cornish origin and was arranged, edited and given extra...
Miscellaneous Musings
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Scripture verse: Luke 2:10-12 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing first appeared in 1739 written by Charles Wesley. The...
Gabriel’s Message
Scripture verse: Luke 1:19 Gabriel's Message (Birjina gaztetto bat zegoen) is a Basque Christmas carol about the...
Oh, Little Town Of Bethlehem
Scripture verse: Micah 5:2 Phillips Brooks (1835–1893), an Episcopal priest, was inspired to write Oh, Little...
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Scripture verse: Matthew 5:17-20 Although its true origin is shrouded in mystery due to various renditions, the song,...
Tell Me The Story Of Jesus
Scripture verse: 1 Timothy 2:5-6 A few days ago, I was on a forum and someone posted a question. What is a song...
The Demise of Publishing…Is it Finally Here?
About a year ago, I wrote a series of articles about the state of publishing, the influence Amazon has over the entire...
To Be-ware or not To Be-ware: Large Publisher, Small Press
This week seems to be the week to blog about small presses, and seeing so many posts brought something to my mind. I’ve always considered Pelican Book Group to be a small press—as I’m sure most people do—but what exactly makes a small press a small press? Is it the size of its catalogue, number of employees, the benefits and drawbacks of being published by said press, or is it strictly the annual revenue generated (and is any of that good or bad)? As I pondered these things, I decided to do a comparison of what large publishers do and what this small press (Pelican Book Group) does.
6 Insane Things I’ve Already Learned this Holiday Season
Will the madness never cease? As I watched with (dis)interest the mass controversy surrounding “the cup”...
Six Things Authors, Publishers and Retailers Can Do to Resuscitate Publishing (The Demise of Publishing, Part 3)
Now it’s time to focus on how we are to keep publishing alive and thriving. Here are six things I think need to happen to ensure that Amazon and other publishers, booksellers and libraries exist in our future world.
Amazon is not the Big Bad (The Demise of Publishing, Part 2)
Considering the ongoing struggles of publishers and bookstores to stay competitive within the marketplace and the simultaneous, exponential growth and dominance of Amazon, it may seem that Amazon is the Big Bad that will put everyone else out of business. It is a
A World Without Amazon? (The Demise of Publishing, part 1)
If the fate of that one chain—Family Christian—affects Christian publishing so drastically, what would a world without Amazon do to publishing at large? What would happen to reading, literacy—publishing—if there was no more Amazon? Or, more likely: What would the book world be with only Amazon? With their $5.25 billion in book sales constituting only 7% of Amazon’s total revenue, the behemoth mega-store isn’t likely to disappear from the landscape any time soon, but will the rest of us be part of the ripe rolling hills of publishing five years from now?