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Five Rivers Editor Gives Keynote Address

Left to Right: Keynote Speaker, Dr. Stewart L. Tubbs, The Darrell H. Cooper Professor of Leadership and former Dean of the College of Business at Eastern Michigan University; Dr. Turan Senguder, Conference Chair and CEO The Journal of American Academy of Business, Cambridge; and Dr. Robert Runté, Keynote speaker; the International Business & Economics Research Conference, Beverly Hills Hilton, Los Angeles, June 2-5, 2010. Five Rivers Editor and university professor Robert Runte, was one of…

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Jun 2010
By Lorina StephensEvents, RunteComments Off on Five Rivers Editor Gives Keynote Address

The Indie Store of the Future

Reading Lorina’s rankings of Independent bookstores in previous post, I tried to imagine the sort of store I (Robert) would like to see. My vision of the independent bookstore of the future is one with an Espresso Machine, a coffee bar, a flat screen monitor flashing random 30 second shots of coverart/coverblurbs from the available Espresso catalog, and a set of bookshelves filled with ‘staff picks’ off the Espresso machine. Maybe a couple of computer…

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May 2010
By Lorina StephensEspresso, future of publishing, Runte3 Comments

What Type Are You?

Casey Wolf drew my attention to the website that asks the question, “What type are you?”. It is an amusing bit of pop-psychology and well worth 10 minutes of your time. I was particularly pleased that this is a free-standing webpage, not one of those annoying Facebook apps that tells you what character in Avatar you are, or whatever, and then raids your Facebook info to sell to marketers, because you had to allow the…

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May 2010
By Lorina StephensDigital Books, future of publishing, RunteComments Off on What Type Are You?

Reading, writing, and publishing as conversation

My previous post got me thinking about the place of books in the 21st century and it suddenly struck me that the central paradox of our age is that reading is in decline at the precise moment that writing (publishing) is undergoing explosive growth. It’s true that people read less these days…I certainly see that in my undergraduate students compared to when I started teaching here 20 years ago…but the other, largely overlooked, half of…

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May 2010
By Lorina Stephensfuture of publishing, RunteComments Off on Reading, writing, and publishing as conversation

The Future of the E-Book

Interesting column at “The Idea Logical Blog” trying to get a handle on the upcoming issues for publishing arising out of the digital revolution. The blog raises 15 issues; the commentary by readers immediately adds more. (Thanks to M. D. Benoit for pointing column out.) I’d love to be a fly on the wall at either the Digital Book World conference or the Tools of Change Conference mentioned in the blog; I’ve wanted to attend/present…

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May 2010
By Lorina StephensDigital Books, future of publishing, RunteComments Off on The Future of the E-Book