By Jessica Pasko
The Troy Book Makers’ name sounds a little like it’s run by guys who’ll give you odds at Saratoga.
No, they don’t make book. They make books.
Let’s say you’ve always dreamed of publishing your novel. You could spend lots of frustrating time pitching it to various publishers and feeling the sting of rejection. And [...]
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By PAUL GRONDAHL, Staff writer
GUILDERLAND — Literary critics who have been predicting the death of the memoir for many years now haven’t met Vicki Schacter or visited the packed workshops of the Memoir Project at the Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy.
After taking a writing workshop from Marion Roach Smith at the Arts Center [...]
By Will Whitehorn
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GREAT BARRINGTON-For anyone planning to write that classic American novel, one local publisher is taking at least some of the difficulty out of the equation.
The Bookloft, in collaboration with the Book House of Stueyvesant Plaza in Albany, N.Y., is beginning its first year as an independent, digital printing service, known [...]
by Michael DeMasi The Business Review
Two independent booksellers invested about $50,000 to start a digital, print-on-demand company in downtown Troy, N.Y., that will offer writers a low-cost way of getting books published.
The Troy Book Makers at 3 Third St. is a joint venture of The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza in Guilderland and The Bookloft [...]
by Eric Anderson, Deputy business editor
The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza has formed a partnership with The Bookloft in Great Barrington, Mass., to launch a digital print-on-demand service for authors who’d like to see their works in print.
The endeavour is called “The Troy Book Makers,” and it’s located in downtown Troy, next to Market Block [...]
by Judith Rosen
One year and 70 books later, the Troy Book Makers in Troy, N.Y., a small-scale Print-on-Demand venture started last summer by Eric Wilska, owner of the Bookloft in Great Barrington, Mass., and Susan Novotny, owner of the Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza in Albany, N.Y., is about to expand. It will double its [...]
Troy Book Makers markets to people looking to publish as few as 10 copies of their own work or an old favorite
By TIM O’BRIEN, Staff writer
TROY — There is a new bookmaking operation in downtown Troy.
No, it’s not an illegal gambling enterprise. It’s a new business that is betting there is a market for people [...]
New sideline: print on demand
by Judith Rosen
Forget gifts and cards. In a time of flattening sales, longtime booksellers Eric Wilska, owner of the Bookloft in Great Barrington, Mass., and Susan Novotny, owner of the Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza in Albany, N.Y., have found what could be the ultimate sideline business, printing their own books. [...]
