Patricia Santos Marcantonio made a post over at The Other Bunch Press website about self publishing:
At a recent book-selling event that was a topic of conversation among many of the local authors. We had time to talk because a snow storm put a damper on sales.
I firmly believe that cannabis has been unfairly demonized by those who seek to control it. I also believe that the plant should be legalized and regulated, and that this is just an other example of what happens when criminals – rather than farmers – grow this crop. our national forests get destroyed.
Cannabis is legal in California. It should be grown legally. One of the shining examples of how to grow and regulate the crop was Mendocino County’s zip-tie program. No forest lands were destroyed or poisoned when that plan was implemented.
Baker & Taylor has put up a press release:
Baker & Taylor, the world’s largest distributor of digital and physical books and entertainment products, announced today that through a pilot program it will now be able to make available more than 450 popular ebook titles from Simon & Schuster imprints to classrooms and school libraries using the Axis 360 digital media circulation platform.
The pilot allows Baker & Taylor’s K-12 customers to purchase access to many popular, classic and award-winning Simon & Schuster ebooks for school-aged readers. Simon & Schuster titles are now available from Baker & Taylor via Title Source 360, the company’s new, comprehensive collection development and ordering tool for library and educational customers.
SHOCKER! Ricoh Americas Corporation – a company that specializes in production print equipment – commissioned a ‘study’ that discovered that people like print books. It would have been news, probably, if the study discovered that consumers preferred anything else.
The study was interesting in it’s scope. It says that 60% of ebooks downloaded are never read (no mention of how many dead-tree books purchased are never read), that consumers “have an emotional and visceral/sensory attachment to printed books, potentially elevating them to a luxury item,” and that “college students prefer printed textbooks to eBooks as they help students to concentrate on the subject matter at hand” because, y’know, you can’t study using a tablet that has an internet connection that could allow them instant access to more – and focused – information about what they’re studying.
Beth Reekles penned an article at The Guardian about how indie publishing via online writing communities and ebooks can provide valuable feedback, and even set you on the path to mainstream success.
