There are so many links I come across and there is not enough time to write longer posts about all of them. Borrowing an idea from Ben Dowdy and his Misfill feature at The Pen Addict, I have started sharing these links in a blog post with a short description about why each article is interesting […]
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2020: The Year In Review
I wanted to end the year with a final post that pulls together everything we saw in 2020. Sales With one week left to report, Bookscan says business book sales are down 11.5%, compared with 2019. This gap had been much wider in the spring and summer months, but the fall and holiday seasons have […]
The Best Business Books of 2020
As we reach the year’s end, I wanted to share the best business books of 2020. I have been creating year end business book lists for over 15 years and I have used many different methods. Some years, it was just my favorites. When I worked at 800-CEO-READ (now Porchlight Books), we created an official […]
Full Shelf – Page Twelve – Special Edition
Welcome to a special Best of 2020 edition of Full Shelf! This week, I am going to attempt to round-up all of the 2020 best of business books lists and put them in one place. I am also going to post my meta-analysis of the big lists and what those lists collectively say about the […]
Book Review: Unapologetically Ambitious
Every business book is a behind the scenes story in some way. With CEOs, they share the story of their rise to the top. Consultants take you inside the companies they have worked with to show what handful of things made their clients successful. Business fables do the same through a fictional narrative and are […]
Full Shelf – Page Eleven
There are so many links I come across and there is not enough time to write longer posts about all of them. Borrowing an idea from Ben Dowdy and his Misfill feature at The Pen Addict, I have started sharing these links in a blog post with a short description about why each article is interesting […]
Full Shelf – Page Ten
There are so many links I come across and there is not enough time to write longer posts about all of them. Borrowing an idea from Ben Dowdy and his Misfill feature at The Pen Addict, I have started sharing these links in a blog post with a short description about why each article is […]
Market Update on Business Book Publishing – 10/22/20
We are now nine months into the pandemic and one major decision that many publishers contended with was whether to delay the release of new titles that were planned for 2020. Would the pandemic dampen demand for new launches? The short answer: Yes, it did. I pulled sales for the top 50 business books launched […]
Full Shelf – Page Nine
There are so many links I come across and there is not enough time to write longer posts about all of them. Borrowing an idea from Ben Dowdy and his Misfill feature at The Pen Addict, I have started sharing these links in a blog post with a short description about why each article is […]
Substitutes for Business Books
Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures writes on his blog today: I’m not a fan of business books. I find that you get most of the value from them in the opening chapter and then it is a lot of repetition from then on. In the comments, which he hosts as a Twitter thread, there […]
