A new study shows that reading books and viewing films a second time are actually good for your mental health, and improve comprehension of the meaning of the book/movie. Well, duh. As a person who has reread many books to the point of falling apart, has watched her movie collection so many times, we’ve had [...]

This past weekend, Dan Poynter – a legend in the self-publishing and small press community – was on NPR on a program entitled “The Future of Children’s Books.” He said all children’s publishing will transition over to tablet-based e-readers. I had been pondering a response to his thesis, which I think has some merits, but [...]

This past weekend, Dan Poynter – a legend in the self-publishing and small press community – was on NPR on a program entitled “The Future of Children’s Books.” He said all children’s publishing will transition over to tablet-based e-readers. I had been pondering a response to his thesis, which I think has some merits, but goes too far, when I was contacted about it by Sheila Ruth, a friend and fellow publisher. Here’s her reply, which will be in two parts.

I often contemplate how profoundly e-readers will change our physical spaces. I’m well aware that most homes right now don’t have books at all (or only a few, for show), and most use bookshelves to display tchotchkes. But in an all digital content world, there won’t be any books in any homes. This actually makes me queasy. I cannot imagine a world without books as personal furniture.

We took a look at what goes into a print bid in Print Bids – Parts I and II. Now let’s look at the information we get back from the printers.

Regular printing still happens more often than not – especially when we’re talking about color printing, which is still not practically priced in the POD realm. I thought I’d show what goes into a print bid and how to evaluate the responses you get back.

As if libraries and librarians weren’t under threat all over the country, here comes yet another challenge.