Truly, the reasons for the migration from bound books to e-books (at least for now in the mission statement of Sullivan Street Press) has more to do with the environment than with the love of technology.
Oh yes, we love new gadgets as much as anyone and think long and hard about buying an iPad in [...]

There is this e-newsletter called Publishing Perspectives and while a good deal of the information there is great for those of us who want an international perspective on publishing trends, there are days . . .
So, now this fellow writes about the bargain book business and out of his own sense of being maligned for [...]

It is the job of a publisher to know just where a book can sell if she chooses to publish a title. That being said all has changed with the advent of e-book marketing. Just as the whole publishing industry itself is going to be altered and the schools that support it will be too, [...]

Brad’s guest this week is going to be answering questions that I am asking myself as well. As an e-book publisher, my partners and I are struggling with the real world cases of how the traditional publishers have thus far taken advantage of or just plain demeaned a good deal of the writers out there.
It [...]

I say to the road rather than on the road only because I do not want to usurp another’s proud name. We who do the Itinerant Book Show and plow through the towns along mostly I-80 to tell the story of the book world as it is evolving today. I also share a growing collection [...]

The real wealth of the traditional publisher is their backlist. What they have published over the years and kept in print.
Yet today’s traditional publisher does not seem to value this wealth or perhaps does not understand it. Much of it is going out of print.
Out of this travesty a new form of publishing is taking [...]

At Sullivan Street Press we have lots of ideas about what writers need and readers need in order to get the best from each other.
So here is just a quick question that can be answered with a comment or just a yes or no answer.
What do readers of this site think of publishers re-issuing [...]

Well Jobs made it known what he had in mind and now it is our turn to talk about the powers and the liabilities of the one-man gadget world. Indie publishers and authors ought to be a bit concerned about the overpowering of the gadget world by the indefatiguable Jobs. Yes, his gadgets are gorgeous [...]

I could not be happier to be included among the writers and supporters of IndieBookMan. Brad and I have indeed been talking up a storm of late and late at night so much so that I do not quite calm down enough to get to sleep. But writers and small business owners suffer similar fates, [...]