What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media politics and publishing the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.

Technology has changed the way book publishing works as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the 'guru' - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

While writing my first 90 books I was magazine editor publisher book publisher executive etc. so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.

Publishing the lyric books poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing etc and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.