Troy Book Makers has planned more free presentations on “Preparing to Print” during February and the coming months. On Saturdays at 11am, we’ll host a one-hour talk in our new Troy offices. Even months (including February), on the last Tuesday,…
Authors Are Their Own Small Business, Truly
“JD Salinger wrote Catcher in the Rye and then disappeared for fifty years. Well, the world doesn’t work that way anymore,” Melissa astutely pointed out at her eBook info session this afternoon. Authors can’t afford to write a book and…
Laugh or Cry?
So, this morning I followed a link from Shelf Awareness to a site that shows (yet another) way to use old books. Although I’m kinda tired of these posts (we are printers, after all!), I recommend having a watch as…
Two Free Workshops at The Troy Book Makers
Next Friday, 1/28, during Troy Night Out, Troy Book Makers will offer two free workshops: 1 – Preparing for Print, and 2 – Converting to E-book. “Preparing for Print” will explain some of the language of printing and publishing, discuss…
Making a Book, 1940s Style
A friend at SUNY Press sent me these links today, one from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives and one from the AFL-CIO. They’re about book printing and binding. Wow! Look at the machines (who designed and manufactured those!?), and all the people…
Wow! A Portable Print Shop
Green Chair Press has provided the information for my blog post today. (Thank you!) A young woman in Portland, Oregon, who loves the art of printing, is planning to buy an old bread truck and refurbish it with…everything she needs…
New York Times to Rank E-Book Bestsellers
Good news for folks who like e-readers…the New York Times recently announced it would begin publishing best-seller lists of fiction and non-fiction electronic books by early next year. Will it include self-published books? Arielle Ford, a former book publicist and…
Video Trailers for Promoting Books
Seems you can’t go anywhere online these days without bumping into YouTube! Authors have started using video, too–sophisticated or homespun–for promotions. If you’re considering a video book trailer, have a look at these. Entertaining, for sure. But are they just…
Self-Publishing Losing Its Stigma
If you’ve self-published this year, congratulations! You’re in great company! According to this piece in MediaShift, word is out that self-publishing has lost its stigma. (But we knew that already, didn’t we?) According to Carla King, a publishing and social media…
Personal Printing, Once the Rage
Trends seem to arrive, peak, then disappear, only to reappear as a “new” idea in the next generation. In the wave of self-publishing we seem to be riding now, I thought I’d point back to the Victorian Era, when personal…