Dear SPD:
You have long provided a valuable service. You have responded quickly
to changing technology in some measure, and so have been able to
support the burgeoning numbers of small press publishers in the
technology changes that make more and more great books possible to
make.
Please at your earliest convenience start supporting digital (.pdf,
kindle, MP3, whatever) downloads, and/or conversion for our books to
that format for vending. Some of us who know how to do that are
willing to help with specifications and processes at least.
Additionally, can SPD openly consider -- perhaps debate -- used book
sales a la half.com/eBay or Amazon (and Borders' original business
model -- one which abandoning caused the corporation to fail?)?
I have lots of thoughts on this last bit. But if it is a profit
center for Amazon, was for Borders (and many independent bookstores
still), why not small presses?
All best,
Catherine Daly
i.e. Press, Publisher
Author:
Salt Publishing
Ahadada Books
Tupelo Press
Shearsman
factory school
blue lion
Moria
Enthusiast:
BlazeVox
Tinfish
Meritage
Kelsey Street
Green Integer
and so, so many more...
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