Mike Shatzkin has a blog post called A coming new obsession: how to handle a smaller print-book business
Tim O’Reilly said this about it: This is the best post I’ve seen on the problems facing publishers, bar none. Mike hit almost every nail square on the head. (In the discussion of Shatzkin’s post you can see the comments by O’Reilly)
Librarians need to be aware of what is going on in the book publishing ecosystem.
My MLS school still only
My MLS school still only talked about small press in terms of local area interest publishing and “vanity” presses. That outlook is woefully behind the times when it comes to the reality of desktop publishing and print-on-demand which my family has been involved in for some time. Thank you for this update on the small-press field.
Electricity is really just organized lightning.” – George Carlin