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April 6, 2010
Websites for Books: A Review
Why haven’t book publishers learned from the music industry how to use the web?
March 1
Trad Publishing: An Economics of Waste
Ever considered the carbon footprint of a traditionally-published book?
February 1, 2010
Web Writing: Where’s The Payoff?
The sequel to “Equally Worthless?”
January 30, 2010
Equally Worthless? I Think Not.
Who decides how much web writing is worth?
January 21, 2010
Best Student Creative Non-Fiction: A Recurring Coup d’état
The energizing experience and hive-educing side effects of editing and the future
January 17, 2010
Worst-Selling Author
In publishing, numbers are rarely what they seem.
January 12, 2010
Stumbling Upon A Million Books: Reviewing Revisited
A modest proposal concerning the crisis in reviewing
December 29, 2009
Wanted: Reviewer Willing to Read a Million Books
What to do about the crisis in reviewing?
December 22, 2009
Coming Soon: The Covers
Sterling work by our art directors
December 12, 2009
The Book, The Eggshell
What is the relationship, these days, between words and the artifact we call a book?
December 10, 2009
A Different Animal, A Similar Species
News from abroad, and from the past.
December 3, 2009
Let Me Count The Ways
Okay, what do we need to do, again? And by when?
November 12, 2009
Beyond Decaf or Regular
Lindsay Webster, designer.
November 12, 2009
Computer Phobia, Begone!
Trish Tomlins dives into unfamiliar waters.
November 7, 2009
Getting the Word Out
Our publicist rolls up her sleeves.
September 25, 2009
Vanity? As If…
Why we are anything but a vanity press.
September 21, 2009
When the Car Came Out of the Tunnel, It Was a Different Color
A small but significant change in our identity and direction.
September 15, 2009
Spot the Deliberate Mistake
The best part of this project is when things go wrong.
August 14, 2009
Primal Software
All these networking and conferencing systems–are they as good as what they’re attempting to replace?
July 28, 2009
Flash Gordon was Wrong
…when he said that the purpose of technology was to make writing extinct.
July 23, 2009
Glitch Du Jour
Reinventing the wheel, one spoke at a time
July 2, 2009
The Detroit of the Printed Word
Why we’re starting a publishing company, and what makes it unusual.