I was surprised to get this email yesterday: Turning expertise into influence – a thought for Wobs LLC from: rob@brandingbybooksnext.com Hi there, I was reviewing Wobs LLC and couldn’t help but think how powerful it would be to transform your insights and methodologies into a professionally crafted book. Consultants like you already have the expertise,…
I analyzed the media industry for 20 years. Like any large industry, it’s complicated. Despite how it feels, media companies are not run on an emotional basis. Like any big business, they’re managed for profit. How media executives think What you will read below is based my experience meeting with senior executives at CBS, CNN,…
Newsletter 112. Finding your “thing” — the part of your job that you can happily and profitably do for decades. Plus, big news for hybrid publishing, new AI surveys, three people to follow, and three books to read. My thing is writing. Do you know yours? I first got hired as a professional writer in…
Many of us were astounded to see Trump’s FCC chairman Brendan Carr threaten the broadcaster ABC over comments by late-night host Jimmy Kimmel. As I explained Friday, The FCC charter explicitly prohibits enforcement actions based on the political content of broadcasts. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was crafted specifically to prevent the government…
AI companies have trained their large language models on copyrighted books. Was this legal? And if not, what can you, a book’s author, do about it? Can you get paid? This post should answer your questions. Is it legal to train a large language model on a copyrighted book? At this point, the legal cases…
ABC, a Disney property, recently suspended the late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and took his show off the air due to pressure from the Trump administration. Some of my friends are suggesting, knee-jerk fashion, that the right reaction is to boycott Disney. But before you do that, you should understand why Disney and ABC made this…
When two or more people collaborate on a book, there’s often a primary writer and a primary idea person. There are lots of ways that collaboration can work, but it pays to think about it before you get started, and adjust it while you’re working together. And it’s also important to for all the collaborators…
Newsletter 111. Think twice about recycling your outrage. Plus, not sounding like an AI, how consultants stand out, three people to follow and three books to read. Welcome to the machine You had a busy week. I know. You posted on social media, and I saw it. You’re hurting, like all of us, and I…
I’m not a habitual procrastinator. But when there is time before the deadline for a project, sometimes I put it off. (You know, just like everyone else.) Here are bad reasons to procrastinate: Good reasons to procrastinate (and what to do about them) Here are good reasons to procrastinate: That last reason is the interesting…