Author Archives: OBS

Pennies for a Press Release

We recently test drove ChatGPT on writing a press release for a new medical book, an assignment that, during the pen-centric era of prose, would have taken a professional medical copywriter a few hours and cost several hundred dollars. As food for “thought,” we fed the AI algorithm the Table of Contents, chapter abstracts, first

The Peace Bell Warrior Story

How Chiyoji Nakagawa Became a Soldier for Peace and Changed the World This is a transcript of a story told by Nakagawa’s daughter, Seiko Takase (Representative Director, Association for the Preservation of the UN Peace Bell), on a Zoom call held on behalf of the Earth Society Foundation, of which OBS President Laura Fillmore is

Publishing Peace: U.S. Can Lead by Example

As nations supporting Ukrainian resistance hurry to deliver military weaponry to the front, and as volunteer soldiers join the fray from around the world, promising to defend democracy by fighting fire with fire, the nuclear nations of the world — specifically the U.S. — have an unprecedented opportunity to practice peace, to try and change

Book Expo Cancelled: Resurrection to Follow?

“End of an era!“ writes a colleague from London when the news hit: https://publishingperspectives.com/2020/12/reedpop-cancels-new-yorks-bookexpo-bookcon-retiring-the-event-permanently-covid19/ “No more dinners, dancing, or fun, ever again, anywhere, any more…” “Oh, sad,” I responded. “What times we’ve had!” I remember the BEA show in Miami in 1994, the heady elation after the first day of our Internet Start-up Booth. It