[bksvol-discuss] Re: Small Presses
- From: "Andy B." <sonfire11@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:05:57 -0400
What about The Gospel Publishing House (GPH) out of Grand Rapids MI? They
have absolutely 0 books on bookshare and probably wont be sending books to
bookshare anytime soon. When I last talked to them about getting digital
versions of some of their books for my own ministerial studies, they decided
to tell me that they had no clue what an ebook even was. When I explained it
more, they said they probably wouldn't release that to the public because of
the possibility that someone might change the text. So, worth a shot (and
they are HUGE in the publishing world). Also, Have you tried Zondervan press
and Biblica?
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Small Presses
Earlier I suggested that volunteers start submitting books from small
presses in order to avoid being upstaged by publisher submissions and
outsourcers. I suggested going to the Amazon advanced book search and typing
either Booksurge or Vantage in the publisher field and leaving the other
fields blank. That advice will, essentially, get you a list of books that
are self published and have gone through those two publisher labels. The
names of actual small presses did not come to my mind though. This morning
while I was engaging in my daily ablutions, though, I was listening to an
NLS BARD book which was an anthology of short stories. In the introduction
for a certain story it mentioned in passing that the author was the editor
for a small press named Monkey Brain Books. Just now I did enter the words
Monkey Brain into that publisher field on the Amazon advanced book search
and it certainly is a small press. I got an entire three results. I didn't
check to see if those three books are in the Bookshare collection, but I
doubt it. The problem with being a small press is that by the very nature of
being small most people have never heard of them. That is also a reason that
their books are unlikely to be in the Bookshare collection and are unlikely
to enter it without the intervention of volunteers. So it occurs to me that
most of us do not even know likely terms to enter into that publisher field
at Amazon. Let me suggest that any of you who do know the names of small and
obscure publishers post what you know here. It would be good to have a list
of them somewhere so that they can be referred to, but just posting their
obscure names here is a start.
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