I just tried Biblica and got about 440 results. Zondervan got 28655 results. Unless it is like Vantage or Booksurge that one doesn't sound like a small press. I didn't look at the titles just now, just the number of results. The one with just over 400 results sounds like a better prospect though. With that few results I would think it might be smaller. As for myself, I don't think I would want to work on books that promote religion.
_ _ _"Socialism can be built only by free men and women working together to lay the foundations for a new society and transforming themselves in the process." - Ernesto "Che" Guevara
The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy B." <sonfire11@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 12:05 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Small Presses 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? -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 11:29 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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. _ _ _ "Socialism can be built only by free men and women working together to lay the foundations for a new society and transforming themselves in the process." - Ernesto "Che" Guevara The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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