Articles by Christopher Simmons
Christopher Laird Simmons has been in the publishing industry since the mid 1970s, when he started publishing sci-fi "fanzines" as a teen. He is the author of Fractopia (ISBN 978-0-9710555-0-6), the CEO of Neotrope®, a member of ASCAP and the PRSA. He has been a recognized PR, marketing and brand identity expert for more than two decades; he was one of the first proponents of ebooks in 1994, and was an early adopter of PDF technology in the advertising industry (he is one of the quoted experts in the TrendWatch industry study on PDF). He has been widely interviewed by publications as diverse as PC World, Entrepreneur, Monster.com, and the Chicago Post-Tribune.
FT. WORTH, Texas /Publishers Newswire/ — Award-winning American teen comic book author and publisher Jake Tinsley has taken on another tough subject for kids – both tweens and teens – bullying at school and at home. Again teaming with ‘Manga’ artist Jason Dube, Tinsley’s character ‘Night Owl’ takes wing to fight this crime that affects so many kids.
Palo Alto, Calif. /Publishers Newswire/ — To continually support the needs of researchers throughout the world, ebrary®, a leading provider of e-books and research technology, today announced it has added more than 16,000 titles in …
SANTA ANA, Calif. /Publishers Newswire/ — A new book by author and thermodynamicist Richard Moser, “A Better Story” (ISBN-13: 978-0974686547; MEC Publishing), uses the basic laws of physics with our observations of the universe of …
COLUMN: It’s now day two as an iPad cult member and I’m enjoying it quite a bit. Today I managed to try out a lot of things, without delving too deeply in the nitty gritty …
Publishers Newswire COLUMN: I pre-ordered my new Apple iPad 64GB Wi-Fi + 3G, and so it arrived yesterday afternoon (Friday). But, being busy this morning was my first opportunity to connect and sync to my …
Publishers Newswire COLUMN: Well, it’s finally here. I can stop holding my breath, crossing my toes, and praying to the mighty Mr. Jobs that we’ve finally have something like an iPod, only, er, bigger. It’s …
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. /Publishers Newswire/ -– Plastic Logic announced today that AT&T’s 3G network will provide the mobile broadband connection for the Plastic Logic Reader, the eReader created for mobile business professionals, when it launches …
For this “roundtable” we’re discussing the future of e-books (electronic books). The question posited to our panel is this: “Do you think e-books will ever catch on, and if so when, and if not, why?” …
Media Coaching is the practice of helping someone become comfortable with dealing with the media, whether it’s a phone interview, on-air appearance, or talk show sit-down. Media coaching is most often used by political candidates …
An interview with Richard Samson, consultant, expert on mental skills, human effectiveness and user interfaces, and author of “Mind Over Technology, Coming Out on Top as a Wired World Starts to Run on Automatic.” Richard …
An informal interview with Nobel Peace Prize winner, human rights activist and world renowned author and lecturer Archbishop Desmond Tutu – who shares a few thoughts on his latest book God Has a Dream: A …
One of the most cost-effective ways to “get the word out” about your new product or service is to use a press release. Basically, this is a brief announcement directed to the media (magazines, newspapers, …
