What: IndieBookMan Radio Show #14: Distribution!
When: Wednesday, May 19th 8PM
Where: http://umbrellaradio.org
Who: Anyone who is interested in writing, reading or publishing indie books

NOTE: This is an online broadcast… you don’t even have to leave your house! Just tune in at http://umbrellaradio.org, relax and listen…
HOW do I get my book into bookstores? How do I get the [...]

Here’s another chapter in the saga of Vox Pop — our attempts to expand our bookstore/cafe/publishing empire. Enjoy! — Andy Laties

Chapter 4
When he released me from his embrace, Shelly Drobny reached into the air, strained upwards with his fingers, grasped something invisible, and shouted, “You’ve got the brass ring!”
The plan was a million dollars to [...]

Here’s another installment from my forthcoming book. (I won’t post every chapter, only occassional ones.)
VoxPop, Sander and Me — Chapter 3
“Fifty thousand in cash! Fifty thousand in cash to launch your new indie bookstore! Get your free fifty thousand!” I was passing out translucent envelopes containing banknotes, stickers and silver coins to attendees strolling the [...]

Yesterday on the bookstore industry newsletter Shelf Awareness, this remarkable proposal was floated. (My personal response is appended further down in this blogpost.)
A Solution for Capital-Starved Independent BookstoresThe following is a proposal made by Jack McKeown, former president and CEO of the Perseus Books Group and former president and publisher of the Adult Trade Group [...]

I’m working on a new book. Here’s the first chapter!
Vox Pop, Sander, and Me
Chapter One
By Andrew Laties
“Who will screw the chains? How will they screw the chains? When will they screw the chains?”
The entire email response to my book query for Screw The Chains: A Free-Jazz Improvising Radical Children’s Bookseller Gets Chewed Up And [...]

Deborah Emin is a New York-based acquaintance of mine—we’re both friends of major novelist Sigrid Nunez; she was also one of the first writers to interview Cantarabooks author Stephen Gyllenhaal in his new persona as poet.
Her Itinerant Book Show should give you a few ideas, so get a car, grab some of your books to sell, [...]

The New York Times features an article about the New York Art Bookfair today, and the display table where I’ve been working at the fair is in the lead photograph!
“World War 3 Illustrated Magazine” is the exemplar of the many books at the fair which are not to be found on the Kindle, [...]

True story: A prominent scholar spends years researching and editing a scholarly gift edition of a Victorian classic. The independent publishing house which over the course of decades has sold hundreds of thousands of this author’s elegant and popular books presents this forthcoming title to Barnes & Noble’s buyers. Barnes & Noble places an order [...]

Media distribution…..well, things have changed just a little…..this post is for Baltimore readers.
One afternoon in the Winter of 1983 I was riding in my Granddaddy Irv’s car in Miami. Grandma Lil was in the passenger seat, my mother and I were in the back. We were discussing my decision to go into business. [...]