Enjoy Leo Babauta’s (Zen Habits) recent conversation with best-selling author, blogger and publisher Seth Godin on the future of books, publishing and blogging. 

These are some of the topics discussed in the 26 minute audio interview.

• Whether the new world of publishing is scary or not
• The clear, well-lit path that publishing has been taking for more than a decade
• How lack of scarcity has changed publishing forever
• The new role of publishing in the online world
• How not to wait to be picked
• How Seth’s Domino Project deals with unsolicited requests from authors
• How the Domino Project planned to transform everything about publishing
• How he eliminated cover images, shortened books, eliminated advances, and what he learned
• Whether collectible editions of books work well
• Spreading ideas through books, and how paid works vs. free
• The growing problem of people hating reading
• Whether you should publish how-to or cookbooks at all
• What types of books will sell well in the new landscape
• The problem of getting selected by the masses in the vast sea of millions of published books
• Why you don’t need that many followers/friends as an author
• Why the willingness to fail is so important, with so many options available to authors
• A future where everything that happens is your fault — and whether that’s good or bad
• The horror stories of Pulitzer Prize winning authors
• Amazon’s vastly important information about readers
• Deciding to publish your best ideas on your blog vs. your book
• Why Seth doesn’t have comments on his blog
• Giving up the goal of having everyone in the world like your stuff
• The cycle of productivity, and having nothing next

I would love to hear your thoughts on the interview and on the topic.

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