When we were releasing the title from our new small press, Writ Large Press, we were giddy to find our title finally appear on Amazon. The writer was too. It was like some sort of test we’d just passed, something that made us legitimate and available around the globe!
Well, that joy didn’t last long when […]
For our own publishing company, we decided to set up an account with Lightning Source over other POD vendors such as Lulu, mainly because of cost.
These are, however, uneasy times for POD’s because of the big Amazon/BookSurge gang-up.
So for us, a tiny little publisher in Los Angeles, well, we don’t quite know what it would […]
eMusic and McSweeney’s have partnered to do a new series of downloadable audio titles.
March is Small Press Month. I don’t quite understand these themed months, actually, like when they have National Poetry Month and I don’t quite find myself scrambling for a poetry book to read.
I guess great January numbers aren’t helping Borders Books that much.
I was as surprised as anyone when I read this little tidbit on Publisher’s Weekly about bookstore sales. A growth that matches the entire retail market.
Saul Kensell writes on the New York Times:
At the Times, our standards for fairness and reporting are the same for our blogs as for everything else we do. Sometimes bloggers work quickly. But that’s no different than decades ago when some articles were written in the minutes before the presses started to roll.
Books don’t sell. Magazines rot on the racks. I mean, Teen People closed up shop. Teen People! And newspapers…exactly. The consensus says that this is simply a reflection of our society, of people who no longer read. Even Steve Jobs pointed to that not-quite-fact in assessing why Amazon’s Kindle will be a failure.
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