[bksvol-discuss] Re: Small Presses

  • From: "Lori Castner" <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:16:14 -0700

Zondervan appears on the list of publishers sent to volunteers by Scott. It is the last one listed and is a imprint of Harper Collins. So at some point, books published by that publisher will probably be added as PQ books.


Lori C.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy B." <sonfire11@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 9:21 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Small Presses


True that Biblica and Zondervan are large presses, but none of their books
are in bookshare and they don't plan on submitting either. For those who
want to work on religeon.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 12:19 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Small Presses


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.


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"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>
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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-----
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[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

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