[bksvol-discuss] Small Presses

  • From: "Roger Loran Bailey" <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:29:05 -0400

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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