Sullivan Street Press
Changing the publishing paradigm.
Now Available–The Wildly Successful Blog Now an E-Book . . .
Eating Vegan in Vegas: If It Can Happen Here . . . It Can Happen Anywhere With a Foreword by Elizabeth Kucinich Paul Graham started out with a clear mission--to eat one vegan meal in a restaurant for 365 days straight in Las Vegas to prove that it could be done. More important than the actual feat (and feasts) was his belief that he could build bridges among those who care about our planet, about animals, about healthy eating, and about the spiritual side of our lives. By bringing all these …
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REZ E-Reader
Each month the REZ Reading Series meets at Odradeks Coffee House in Kew Gardens, NY. Our community is rich with writers. We are so rich that the first night of the new series, we had 11 writers to read for us. Their work is now available in the new REZ E-Reader which you can download for free from our checkout section of the website. Each month, we’ll be offering the latest work read at the REZ Reading Series and all the REZ E-Readers will always be available and will always be …
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Writers Beware–One Writer’s Advice to Other Writers
{The how, the when, the why again and again of publishing} We writers are a funny lot. So guarded of our time, we tend to fall into two camps--those who understand and make use of our understanding of the publishing process and those who don’t possess that knowledge and are therefore fall victim to the industry. I didn’t learn about the publishing industry by taking courses. I worked in publishing from the time I moved to NYC. Since then, my interest in this business has been one of …
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E-Publisher Travels Country to Video Blog Book Readings
The Sullivan Street Press Road Trip Some would call it shrewd guerilla marketing, 2012 style. Others would call it high-mileage performance art. Deborah Emin and Suzanne Pyrch simply call it a fun way to traverse the country and meet some new people on the road-with the added perk of publicizing their self-published books. Emin and Pyrch, partner publishers of Sullivan Street Press (SSP), recently embarked on a two-month road trip with the intent of traveling from their home base of New York …
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Road Trip Pulling Out On July 9th
Here are Nutter and I. We have been working hard to prepare the best video experience possible as we travel cross country. Guess what? Nutter will be traveling with us. Not sure what Suzanne will think of this arrangement but I enjoy talking to Nutter as I explain what it is we are doing and why we are doing it. So, please stay tuned as we will be traversing miles and miles, starting in the Adirondacks, pushing on to Skokie, then to Cedar Rapids, Iowa and eventually to Las Vegas and …
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Another Almost Daily Rant About Amazon and Their Plans to Take Over the Book World
(I began this ranting months ago and have found that, just like the reasons for why the Tower in Pisa leans, there are many reasons for why Amazon does what it does, depending on whom you talk to. Since you are reading my blog, this is my take on the matter.) Oh yes, my friends, Amazon allows you to sell your books online. All your friends and their friends and you hope more the infinite circle of friends with friends will also click and buy your books. Yet, what happens if Amazon decides …
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So Many Ways to Own
Scags at 7, Scags at 18 and soon, Scags at 30
For 2013, three volumes in the Scags Series will be available…
Choose your way to read – are you a member of the digital reading set?
Or do you prefer a bound copy?
You can order a Print-On-Demand copy.
Or if you like our new Living Books version get your free iPad app, Scags.
Buy Scags at 7 for $5.99. Get the Scags iPhone App
(Scags at 18, $12.99, will be available Spring 2013. Scags at 30 will be out in 2013.)
So many ways to read this series.
Go here for descriptions of each title and to read reviews.
There is a limited quantity of first edition, signed copies of Scags at 7 available.
News You Can Use
Sustainability–The Way Forward in Publishing
Sustainability--A Wonderful Word
Publishing can become wholly sustainable in ways it never might have considered before.
Traditionally, publishers talked about channels of distribution. You know, feeding the many markets that were used to get books into readers' hands. this meant they were talking about bookstores, libraries, and the various types of distributors who sold the publishers' books to the numerous outlets. Creating these channels was like …
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The Book Is Dead–For Good Environmental Reasons
Currently, the publishing industry should be working towards the goal of decreasing their reliance on fossil fuels by using more renewable energy to run their business.
Let us now praise the bound book and wish it well in the great artifact hereafter. We live in a world that has changed radically since we woke up in 2007 or 2008 when the first pronouncements of the death of the printed book made headlines. In many ways, those pronouncements were a set of …
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On Demand Books and E-Books Taking a New Place in Book Publishing
I just got off the phone with Karina Mikhli at On Demand Books. I called to ask some questions about this news item:
Kodak, On Demand Books and ReaderLink Join Forces for In-Store Book Printing at Retail
"Eastman Kodak Company, the worldwide leader in retail imaging solutions, with a global footprint of 105,000 KODAK Picture Kiosks, On Demand Books, and ReaderLink today announced they have partnered to revolutionize the way all types of printed books …
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Featured eBooks!
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Eating Vegan in Vegas $12.95 -
$12.95 Gift Certificate $12.95 -
Scags at 7 – eBook $5.95
On Sale
REZ E-Reader – March 2013
Reader’s Comments
- Eating Vegan in Vegasby Will Porter
- Eating Vegan in Vegasby theliz82@gmail.com
- Eating Vegan in Vegasby kimmiles@gmail.com
eBooks Make Great Gifts
Did you know you can easily send an electronic Sullivan Street Press gift certificate directly to a friend or loved one?
eBooks make wonderful gifts!
Scags Series iPad App
The Scags Series is also available as an iPad app.
Simple to do, go to iPad app store and enter Scags and experience the new Living Book.