08Jun
08Jun
Power of vision
When reading a past issue of Leadership Journal, I came across an advert by the Billy Graham Training Centre at the Cove. The following words in the advert caught my attention “Leading is easier when you know which way to go.” The more I reflected on...
07Jun
How to Choose a Distributor
Achieving an effective distribution system with the widest coverage is the dream goal of any publisher. However, many publishers in developing countries do not achieve effective distribution chains even within their own countries. One reason for this is the inability of many a publisher to...
06Jun
PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE
“Once upon a time….” These were words I heard often while sitting around a fire in the evening. Growing up in the countryside, the evenings were spent around the fireplace as we waited for dinner to be prepared and served. The room would be dimly...
06Jun
E-Commerce: Engine for Growth in Publishing
Publishers who ignore technological advances do so at their own peril. One of the significant advances in the third millennium is the development of the Internet, which has revolutionized the manner and speed of conducting business. Through computer network technology enhanced by telecommunications, electronic commerce...
06Jun
Publishing Trends and Their Effect on Publishers in the Developing World
The fact that the world is becoming a global village is perhaps best seen in the area of publishing, secular and Christian alike.
Watching the developments in the Christian publishing industry locally and overseas, I have noted five trends that are having...
01Jun
Publishing abroad isn’t the answer
I read Silas Nyanchwani’s article “8 Lessons writers need to learn” on Sunday, December 30, 2012 with keen interest. As a publisher and author, I found some of his advice very articulate and worth the ink but some of it may have been given...
01Jun
Good alternative to the self-publishing model
I read Joseph Ngunjiri’s article in last Sunday’s edition of Lifestyle titled A fast track to self-publishing (May 29) with a keen interest. As much as I agreed with some of the observations he made regarding self-publishing, I felt he did not present a balanced view...
01Jun
Why I accuse the publisher for book flaws
I read Isaac Mwangi’s book review in the last edition of Lifestyle titled Glory Be to Corruption in God’s Name! with a keen interest. As much as I agreed with the observations he made, I felt like he directed the heat on the author, and...
01Jun