Eating Vegan In Vegas E-Book Available for Download Through Sullivan Street Press
Sullivan Street Press, leading green e-book publisher, reveals that the blogging sensation of Las Vegas, “Eating Vegan In Vegas,” is available in e-Book format on the Sullivan Street Press website
New York, NY (PRWEB) April 11, 2013
Leading green e-book publisher, Sullivan Street Press, announces the highly anticipated “Eating Vegan In Vegas: If It Can Happen Here, It Can Happen Anywhere” e-book by Paul Graham is now available for download. The e-book is available exclusively on the Sullivan Street Press website, and features a foreword by the Director of Public Affairs for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Elizabeth Kucinich.
“Eating Vegan In Vegas” started as a wildly successful blog when author Paul Graham challenged himself to eat a different vegan meal in Las Vegas for an entire year. This challenge to eat a purely plant-based diet in the middle of the desert has received international attention as a wake-up call for society. Many believe Graham’s writing could be the spark that ignites a global shift in the way the world eats.
Within the virtual pages of this e-book, readers can find the best vegan restaurants Sin City has to offer and the background behind Graham’s ethical and spiritual reasons for taking on this endeavor. Graham provides detailed accounts of many of the dishes and his various experiences at each restaurant, including the people he met, dined with and discussed how to live a more compassionate and earth-loving life during their meal.
The e-book is available for $12.95; gift certificates are also available for those wishing to provide the most complete guide for family and friends traveling to Las Vegas who want to try or already live a vegan lifestyle. Writing the e-book to help educate the general public on the delicious vegan options available in Las Vegas, Graham is thrilled that his writings have been met with such enthusiasm. Now everyone can relive his 365-day journey through vegan Las Vegas at the click of a button. He hopes that his blog-to-book sensation will give others the extra push needed to live a more conscientious life tending the earth and the use of its resources.
Paul’s yearlong blogging project is a celebration of plant-based meals and eating, showing others the benefits in optimizing health and vitality.
About Sullivan Street Press:
Founded 4 years ago, Sullivan Street Press entered the e-publishing domain to change the publishing paradigm. It recognized that for both financial and environmental reasons it was necessary to advocate for the rise of the e-book and the technology that makes all things digital possible. Responding to readers’ concerns, many of whom aren’t yet ready to commit to the e-book revolution, SSP began to have its books published in Print-on-Demand format on the Espresso Book Machine at McNally Jackson Books in New York City. Then it reached out to On Demand Books, the parent company of the Espresso Book Machine, to be included in their world wide system of Espresso Book Machines. In furtherance of the digital side of its publishing mission, the Scags Series is also available as in iPad app, powered by MAZ Digital. For more information on all the various ways in which Sullivan Street Press is using new technology to reduce pollution and waste in the publishing process, visit its 100% carbon neutral website: http://www.sullivanstpress.com
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Sullivan Street Press to Publish the REZ Reading Series in E-Book Format
Sullivan Street Press, leading green e-book publisher, revels in the positive feedback received from the community in reaction to the REZ Reading Series hosted at Odradeks Coffee House, 82-60 Austin Street, Kew Gardens, NY and will begin publishing the author’s work in E-Book format.
“We are motivated by the desire to make reading not just a pastime but an event, by bringing authors to the community to share their work. The purpose of the e-book is to give those who attended the readings a chance to linger longer with the work.”
New York, NY (PRWEB) April 02, 2013
Sullivan Street Press leading green e-book publisher is elated with the community reaction to the return of the beloved REZ Reading Series. The series is hosted at Odradeks Coffee House located at 82-60 Austin Street, Kew Gardens, NY monthly from 7:30 pm – 9:00 PM. The next event will be held Thursday, April 4th, featuring the writer, Liza Charlesworth, a poet and also an educational editor and author 
specializing in books for teachers and children and known for her best seller “The Couple’s Guide to In Vitro Fertilization: Everything You Need to Know to Maximize Your Chances of Success.”
Sullivan Street Press is excited to announce the REZ E-Reader, a free e-book containing the works read at each of the REZ Reading Series monthly events, including a brief bio of the authors. This has been made possible through collaboration with Kevin Callahan, Owner of BNGO Books premier producer of books for print and digital destinations. The REZ E-Reader will be exclusively available for download at the Sullivan Street Press website.
“We are motivated by the desire to make reading not just a pastime but an event, by bringing authors to the community to share their work. The purpose of the e-book is to give those who attended the readings a chance to linger longer with the work they heard and to provide the work to those who weren’t able to attend,” said Deborah Emin, Founder of Sullivan Street Press.
It was always Sullivan Street Press’ intention to somehow capture the spirit of the event in a way that could be archived or recalled at a later time. The group once stated, “In the future they would like to record and archive the sessions, so that people could get the audio streamed directly to their computers — something Emin believes would be particularly helpful for elderly book lovers.” With the expansion of technology this dream has been made a reality, and the series can now be enjoyed by all near and far.
These events are held monthly, each event showcasing a specific writer. Sullivan Street Press will be sponsoring these readings in order to fulfill part of its mission to create communities of story tellers and poets.
About Sullivan Street Press:
Founded 4 years ago, Sullivan Street Press entered the e-publishing domain to change the publishing paradigm. It recognized that for both financial and environmental reasons it was necessary to advocate for the rise of the e-book and the technology that makes all things digital possible. Responding to readers’ concerns, many of whom aren’t yet ready to commit to the e-book revolution, SSP began to have its books published in Print-on-Demand format on the Espresso Book Machine at McNally Jackson Books in New York City. Then it reached out to On Demand Books, the parent company of the Espresso Book Machine, to be included in their world wide system of Espresso Book Machines. In furtherance of the digital side of its publishing mission, the Scags Series is also available as in iPad app, powered by MAZ Digital. For more information on all the various ways in which Sullivan Street Press is using new technology to reduce pollution and waste in the publishing process, visit the website: http://www.sullivanstpress.com
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Sullivan Street Press Launches Eating Vegan In Vegas on April 11, 2013
Sullivan Street Press, leading green e-book publisher, announces April 11, 2013 as the release date of Eating Vegan In Vegas, the blogging sensation out of Las Vegas now in e-book format.
New York, NY (PRWEB) February 12, 2013
Sullivan Street Press, leading green e-book publisher is pleased to announce that “Eating Vegan in Vegas: if It Can Happen Here, It Can Happen Anywhere (with guidebook),” will be available exclusively on the Sullivan Street Press website on April 11, 2013.
This e-book details the 365-day challenge its author, Paul Graham, set for himself–to eat a different vegan meal at a restaurant in Las Vegas for one full year. Included in the e-book is a complete and most definitive guide available to all restaurants offering vegan meals. For the millions of visitors to Las Vegas every year, this e-book will be a great resource to the food revolution that is transforming Las Vegas.
The blog was a huge success in Las Vegas and beyond as Paul Graham shared his remarkable insights into the ethical, healthful and spiritual reasons for living a life that is more compassionate and loving to the planet.
As Paul Graham says about his reasons for writing the blog and e-book/guidebook:
“I was inspired to write Eating Vegan in Vegas to build a bridge with people in celebration of all the quality plant-based eating options we have in Las Vegas. My blog and e-book reflect a shift in our society as we move towards more conscious living and eating for the sake of our health, the environment, social justice and our spirits.”
The e-book/guidebook sells for $12.95; gift certificates are also available so it can be shared with friends traveling to Las Vegas and in need of a guide to the best vegan dining anywhere in the city.
The e-book chronicles what the blogging challenge was like for Paul: all the people he met; the talks they had about respecting life in all its forms; and the varieties of foods available in this city locked in the middle of the desert. Paul’s achievement in conveying the wealth of vegan options in Las Vegas has inspired Elizabeth Kucinich to write a Foreword to his e-book sharing her excitement about what a great feat Paul Graham has achieved.
As the publisher, Deborah Emin, says about projects such as this from Sullivan Street Press:
“Paul Graham’s e-book/guidebook, Eating Vegan in Vegas, allows us to share with readers Paul’s insights into a changing way of life that matches in many ways the mission statement of the press. We all need to be concerned about the planet and no better way of being committed to its further existence can be found than in works such as Paul’s e-book.”
Paul Graham’s yearlong blogging project is a celebration of plant-based eating and living. The e-book/guidebook shows the benefits he obtained by optimizing his health and vitality as well as all the bridges he built among a wide community that shares in this vegan way of life.
About Paul Graham:
Paul Graham was born, raised, and lived most of his life in the San Jose area of Northern California. While in the San Jose area he worked with teens and professional athletes and was the chaplain for the Oakland A’s baseball team. He moved to Las Vegas, NV in 2004 where he is a writer, green realtor, and top wedding officiant. He has been a vegan since 2007 and began the Eating Vegan in Vegas blog in 2011. Paul writes a weekly Sunday column, Being Vegan, for “The Las Vegas Informer,” an on-line newspaper which carries his column in its sister publications in California and Texas.
Sullivan Street Press:
Founded 4 years ago, Sullivan Street Press entered the e-publishing domain to change the publishing paradigm. It recognized that for both financial and environmental reasons it was necessary to advocate for the rise of the e-book and the technology that makes all things digital possible. Responding also to the numbers of authors whose books have gone out of print, Sullivan Street Press has begun a new program working with these authors and reissuing their books as e-books. For more information on all the various ways in which Sullivan Street Press is using new technology to reduce pollution and waste in the publishing process, visit its 100% carbon neutral website: http://www.sullivanstpress.com
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Sullivan Street Press Expands E-Commerce Services In 2013
Sullivan Street Press, leading green e-book publisher, will be expanding e-commerce services in 2013 in continuation of their green e-publisher mission to change the publishing paradigm.
“Whatever a group can imagine as a small or large e-book, we can create, sell for them, deliver with great customer service and maintain buyers lists with emails which is a gold mine for all follow-up business.”
New York, NY (PRWEB) December 11, 2012
Sullivan Street Press, leading green e-book publisher, will be expanding e-commerce services in the new year to provide alternative e-publishing options for a variety of uses by new authors, non-profits, for profit companies needing e-materials, and a whole host of other potential benefactors.
With the versatility of new e-commerce technology, Sullivan Street Press envisions the ability to produce, market and sell e-content and provide each client with detailed consumer lists. This information is vital to understanding the audience and target markets for future projects or publications. This type of meta-data isn’t often available to buyers of e-commerce services yet is an essential element in the analysis of a campaign’s effectiveness and future direction.
Sullivan Street Press recently announced their ability to gift e-books through electronic gift certificates. While this is exciting news for those interested in gifting their favorite Sullivan Street Press titles, it is equally exciting for non-profits and new authors who are interested in increasing sales, gathering more data, and having access to cutting edge sharing features for their e-books. This new technology provides the ability to create limited time offers, book club offers, quantity offers, buy one get one and many other options providing the ultimate flexibility in managing sales.
“Whatever a group can imagine as a small or large e-book, we can create, sell for them, deliver with great customer service and maintain buyers lists with emails which is a gold mine for all follow-up business,” Deborah Emin, Founder of Sullivan Street Press, says about this new aspect of the business.
With this expansion of e-commerce services, Sullivan Street Press continues its green e-publisher commitment. In an environmentally friendly way, they can be a host to a wide array of non-profits selling e-books and maintain donor lists as well as provide a better royalty arrangement. For the self-published author, it can be a starting off point to gain readers while being included in Sullivan Street Press’ marketing efforts. For small companies creating e-books for special events where the production and e-commerce expertise are missing, working with Sullivan Street Press is cost-effective. Sullivan Street Press’ mission continues in this way–to change the publishing paradigm and to sell e-books. This new addition of e-commerce services is an outgrowth of that mission.
Sullivan Street Press:
Founded 3 years ago, Sullivan Street Press entered the e-publishing domain to change the publishing paradigm. It recognized that for both financial and environmental reasons it was necessary to advocate for the rise of the e-book and the technology that makes all things digital possible. Responding to readers’ concerns, many of whom aren’t yet ready to commit to the e-book revolution, SSP began to have its books published in Print-on-Demand format on the Espresso Book Machine at McNally Jackson Books in New York City. Then it reached out to On Demand Books, the parent company of the Espresso Book Machine, to be included in their world wide system of Espresso Book Machines. In furtherance of the digital side of its publishing mission, the Scags Series is also available as in iPad app, powered by MAZ Digital. For more information on all the various ways in which Sullivan Street Press is using new technology in the publishing process, visit the website: http://www.sullivanstpress.com
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Electronic Gift Certificates Now Available for E-Books through Sullivan Street Press
In the spirit of the holiday season, Sullivan Street Press, leading green e-book publisher, announces cutting edge technology that provides the ability to gift an e-book.
New York, NY (PRWEB) November 20, 2012
Sullivan Street Press, leading green e-book publisher now offers cutting edge technology in the form of an electronic gift certificate for use in gifting e-books.
Until now, there wasn’t a way to gift an e-book since they are delivered directly to the purchaser’s email and it is illegal to share. With the discovery of an e-commerce plug-in, Sullivan Street Press is one of the first small publishers to offer the ability to purchase a gift certificate for the price of the e-book allowing it to be given as a gift. The purchaser is given the opportunity to enter the name, email address and add a personalized message to their recipient.
Staying in touch with the publisher’s green and environmentally conscious philosophy the gift certificates are electronic and delivered via email. The gift certificates are currently available in monetary increments of $5.95 and $12.95 payable through PayPal or major credit card, and can be used to purchase e-books from the Sullivan Street Press online store.
While this is exciting news for those interested in gifting their favorite Sullivan Street Press titles, it is equally exciting for non-profits and new authors who are interested in increasing sales, gathering more data, and having access to cutting edge sharing features for their e-books. This new technology provides the ability to create limited time offers, quantity offers, buy one get one and many other options providing the ultimate flexibility in managing sales.
“The options are amazing, and for a company this size with a small but growing list, we have these sales opportunities, extensive customer service, and a server to buy from that is 100% carbon neutral” states Deborah Emin, founder of Sullivan Street Press.
Sullivan Street press hopes that by offering an environmentally friendly gifting option, that it will help them to continue their green e-publisher commitment by providing readers and authors with an alternative to traditional book publishing and gift giving.
For more information about Sullivan Street Press and available products please visit http://www.sullivanstpress.com.
About Sullivan Street Press:
Founded 3 years ago, Sullivan Street Press entered the e-publishing domain to change the publishing paradigm. It recognized that for both financial and environmental reasons it was necessary to advocate for the rise of the e-book and the technology that makes all things digital possible. Responding to readers’ concerns, many of whom aren’t yet ready to commit to the e-book revolution, SSP began to have its books published in Print-on-Demand format on the Espresso Book Machine at McNally Jackson Books in New York City. Then it reached out to On Demand Books, the parent company of the Espresso Book Machine, to be included in their world wide system of Espresso Book Machines. In furtherance of the digital side of its publishing mission, the Scags Series is also available as in iPad app, powered by MAZ Digital. For more information on all the various ways in which Sullivan Street Press is using new technology to reduce pollution and waste in the publishing process, visit the website: http://www.sullivanstpress.com
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Vegas Goes Vegan in Paul Graham’s New E-Book from Sullivan Street Press
Sullivan Street Press, leading green e-book publisher, partners with author Paul Graham to release the most comprehensive story about how to go vegan in Las Vegas.
New York, NY (PRWEB) November 15, 2012
Sullivan Street Press, leading green e-book publisher, partnered with blogger Paul Graham to transform his 365-day blog, “Eating Vegan in Vegas,” into the first tell-all story about the trials and successes of eating one vegan meal per day in a restaurant in Las Vegas.
Imagine this super-human effort in a desert community that doesn’t raise its own food. Think too about the millions of visitors per month who come to Las Vegas looking for something more than the ubiquitous over consumption. Combine that into a truly bridge-forming set of stories that will inspire and educate anyone interested in learning more about plant-based eating.
Not only has Paul Graham challenged himself to eat one vegan meal in a Las Vegas restaurant for 365 days but he has gathered all those experiences into the most comprehensive guide to eating vegan in Vegas. No matter where the reader chooses to explore, Graham offers a variety of places to eat along with his favorite items on the menus. Accompanied by some of the most mouth watering descriptions of the food are several of the photographs Paul has shot of these delicious meals.
One would falsely presume that Las Vegas is inhospitable to vegans. Join Paul as he takes you on a tour of “Sin City’s” vegan fare from the most expensive to the family-friendly. Meet those who are in it for their health, for the kindness to animals, for the ethical concerns and the protection of our planet.
“If vegan eating can happen in Vegas it can happen anywhere — and it must if our planet will be able to feed the billions of people now dependent on it.”
Available only on the Sullivan Street Press website, Eating Vegan in Vegas is currently one of the most anticipated books to be published next spring about Las Vegas.
As Paul says, “If vegan eating can happen in Vegas it can happen anywhere — and it must if our planet will be able to feed the billions of people now dependent on it.”
Eating Vegan in Vegas will be available Spring 2013 for $12.95. This two-part e-book includes Paul’s adventures blogging along with the most comprehensive guidebook to vegan restaurants in and around Las Vegas. For a limited time, Sullivan Street Press is offering a pre-release certificate for the e-book combo at $10.35. Pre-Order a copy today to take advantage of this amazing deal.
In Fall, 2013, Paul will produce a separate e-book guidebook just to the restaurants in and around Las Vegas in a newly revised and updated format, also only available from Sullivan Street Press. ($5.95)
Eating Vegan in Vegas is for everyone, vegetarians, vegans, the v-curious, who are working towards eliminating animal byproducts from our diets.
Please, support Paul Graham and Sullivan Street Press as they team up to complete the country’s most comprehensive guide to the trials and triumphs to creating a plant-based community by pre-ordering your copy (and giving it as gifts as well).
About Sullivan Street Press:
Founded 4 years ago, Sullivan Street Press entered the e-publishing domain to change the publishing paradigm. It recognized that for both financial and environmental reasons it was necessary to advocate for the rise of the e-book and the technology that makes all things digital possible. Responding to readers’ concerns, many of whom aren’t yet ready to commit to the e-book revolution, SSP now also has some of its books published in Print-on-Demand format on the Espresso Book Machine at McNally Jackson Books in New York City. It has also reached out to On Demand Books, the parent company of the Espresso Book Machine, to be included in their world wide system of Espresso Book Machines. In furtherance of the digital side of its publishing mission, the Scags Series is also available as in iPad app, powered by MAZ Digital. For more information on all the various ways in which Sullivan Street Press is using new technology to reduce pollution and waste in the publishing process, visit the website: http://www.sullivanstpress.com
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Wind Powered Website Reduces Carbon Footprint for Sullivan Street Press
Sullivan Street Press, leading green e-book publisher, partners with GreenDreamWeb in releasing their 100% green, clean, renewable-energy-powered website.
New York, NY (PRWEB) October 16, 2012
Sullivan Street Press leading green e-book publisher, recently partnered with Steve Rypka, GreenDreamWeb’s Owner/Designer to overhaul their existing website and to move it to a 100% green server that uses renewable wind power as the sole energy source.
GreenDreamWeb is a small web design and hosting company with a major focus on environmental responsibility functioning completely carbon-neutral. Everything from the servers that host the websites, to the facilities that house the computers and employees runs on a combination of solar and wind power.
“The updated site allows us to continue with our mission to be as environmentally smart as possible. This new hosting arrangement will help us to make our books more available to a wider range of buyers.”
Deborah Emin, publisher
As the publisher, Deborah Emin says, “The updated site allows us to continue with our mission to be as environmentally smart as possible. This new hosting arrangement will help us to make our books more available to a wider range of buyers. By providing a greater amount of information for the book buyer on all aspects of the e-reading experience–from how they were developed, to the range of availability, to technical help on using them–our faster site offers more information, as well as support, than other e-publishers do presently.”
Many improvements have been made to the website with the goal of making each and every visit to the site easier and more informative. Some of the updates include:
- Real time Twitter/Facebook stream
- Robust blog containing a mix of news, views, book reviews and guest blogs
- Informational section on eBooks
- Enhanced Shopping Cart services with reliable customer service
- Landing pages for new ventures
This innovation has helped Sullivan Street Press to continue its green e-publisher commitment by providing readers with an environmentally friendly website that promotes alternatives to traditional book publishing. Sullivan Street Press has always seen itself as having two missions: to change the publishing paradigm and to sell books that tell the stories many others refuse to publish. With the updated site, they are confident that they can accomplish both.
About Sullivan Street Press
Founded 3 years ago, Sullivan Street Press entered the e-publishing domain to change the publishing paradigm. It recognized that for both financial and environmental reasons it was necessary to advocate for the rise of the e-book and the technology that makes all things digital possible. Responding to readers’ concerns, many of whom aren’t yet ready to commit to the e-book revolution, SSP began to have its books published in Print-on-Demand format on the Espresso Book Machine at McNally Jackson Books in New York City. Then it reached out to On Demand Books, the parent company of the Espresso Book Machine, to be included in their world wide system of Espresso Book Machines. In furtherance of the digital side of its publishing mission, the Scags Series is also available as in iPad app, powered by MAZ Digital. For more information on all the various ways in which Sullivan Street Press is using new technology to reduce pollution and waste in the publishing process, visit the website: http://www.sullivanstpress.com
About GreenDreamWeb.com
GreenDreamWeb exists for one reason: To help make the world a better place. We are a small web design and hosting company with a focus on environmental responsibility and we want to do our part. We believe everyone should have access to an affordable, functional web presence that is also part of the solution to some of the most pressing issues of the day. We specialize in creating clean, professional and effective websites that can be easily maintained by our clients. This saves money and promotes more frequent updates, a key to success for anyone with a web presence. For more information visit http://greendreamweb.com.
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Green e-publisher Sullivan Street Press is traveling the country looking for strangers to read their debut title Scags at 7.
This weekend, they’ll be in Santa Fe, New Mexico looking for book lovers to participate in the latest installment of SSP’s video blog.
(PRWEB) July 26, 2012
Deborah Emin and Suzanne Pyrch partner publishers of green e-publisher Sullivan Street Press are on the final leg of their summer book tour and stopping by Santa Fe to find strangers to take part in their latest video blog installment. Deborah and Suzanne will be roaming the streets to find strangers to read their debut title Scags at 7 as they journey all across America to have the book read aloud.
The duo rolls into Santa Fe on 7/29 and will be roaming the downtown area to seek out participants. Readers of all ages are welcome to attend and will be awarded a free, signed copy of the book for their participation in the project. The video blog entry will be posted to SSP’s Facebook page and on their website at http://www.sullivanstpress.com upon completion.
“We have already met many new friends of Sullivan Street Press, including booksellers, young people at their summer jobs, children on vacation with grandparents and recorded the many willing to participate in this new venture,” said Deborah Emin. “We’re thrilled at the interest we’ve been receiving.”
By taking the pulse of the country as they travel through it, Sullivan Street Press hopes to forge new relationships with lots of communities. The journey began in New York City last month as the partner publishers packed up their Prius and headed west across the great state of New York. SSP has made stops in Buffalo, NY, Chicago, IL, and Cedar Rapids, IA. They will wrap up official book appearance for their summery road trip in Las Vegas from 8/7-8/14. The pair will continue to film installments in other locations as they travel back to New York.
SSP is hoping to forge new partnerships with locations across the country where the Espresso Book Machine is located now that two volumes in the Scags Series are available in the Print on Demand format. As a green e-publisher the ability to print only books that are sold is one of the many ways SSP is diminishing the environmental footprint of an industry that often sees excessive waste of natural resources when unsold books sit idle on shelves.
If you’d like to meet up with Deborah and Suzanne while in Santa Fe, email them at deminlit(at)yahoo(dot)com.
About Sullivan Street Press
Founded 3 years ago, Sullivan Street Press entered the e-publishing domain in order to change the publishing paradigm. It recognized that for both financial and environmental reasons it was necessary to advocate for the rise of the e-book and the technology that makes all things digital possible. Responding to readers’ concerns, many of whom aren’t yet ready to commit to the e-book revolution, SSP began to have its book published in Print-on-Demand on the Espresso Book Machine at McNally Jackson Books in New York City. Then it reached out to On Demand Books, the parent company of the Espresso Book Machine, to be included in their world wide system of Espresso Book Machines. For more information on all the various ways in which Sullivan Street Press is using new technology to reduce pollution and waste in the publishing process, visit the website: http://www.sullivanstpress.com
Follow the tour on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/sullivanstpress.
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Sullivan Street Press Launches New iPad App for the Scags Series
Sullivan Street Press, leading e-book publisher, has taken a leap into the future of what e-books can offer readers with their new iPad app. Working with the magazine digital programmers at MAZ Digital, Sullivan Street Press along with their designer, Patricia Rasch, has created a new book form — the Living Book.
“After reading Scags on the iPad you will understand the true potential of digital reading.”
Paul Canetti, Founder and CEO of MAZ Digital
(PRWEB) May 24, 2012
Scags iPad app icon.
Now readers of the Scags Series have an almost infinite way of reading and exploring the contents and the social connectivity possibilities of this new series of e-books, written by Deborah Emin.
Contained within the free iPad app will be the entire series. Currently one volume, Scags at 7, is available ($5.99). This new approach to reading, being called a Living Book, is about pushing as far as possible into the social networking, e-learning and fan writing world as is possible today. Each volume in the series will be equipped with its own version of the e-book, totally enhanced and enlarged from the e-book versions that Sullivan Street Press will publish and continue to sell from its website.
Sullivan Street Press decided to create this iPad app so that it could truly push forward the new publishing paradigm. This app will allow readers to explore reading in an entirely new way. By giving readers access to a new, secret website that only they can gain access to through the portals in the app version of the book, readers can respond to questions, ask questions, write their own versions of sections of the story and share it with others among many other new ways of connecting, reader to reader and reader to writer. In addition, there are links within the app itself to a variety of informative sites, resources that give readers a deeper understanding of the context, times and content within the e-book. An example of this enhanced content are the links to the history of Chicago and the influx of Black migrants from the South. The connection to fan sites about the music of the 1950s that Scags talks about in her story. And information about Skokie itself, its origins, who lived there at the time the story takes place and where they came from.
In order to create these Living Books for the Scags Series, Sullivan Street Press had to find a partner to work with who understood what it envisioned. In MAZ Digital, they did. As their founder and CEO, Paul Canetti affirms:
“We are thrilled to be working with a brand like Scags that really takes advantage of the interactive features MAZ provides. To date, eBooks have been as static as their paper ancestors, but after reading Scags on the iPad you will start to understand the true potential of digital reading. The way that they integrate web content and social media into the pages of the book is groundbreaking, and I’m just happy that MAZ is able to give them the tools to make their creative vision a reality.”
Sullivan Street Press brings together the world of e-reading at its most cutting edge horizon and couples that with its mission to keep e-books as green and environmentally friendly as possible.
About Sullivan Street Press
Founded 3 years ago, Sullivan Street Press entered the e-publishing domain in order to change the publishing paradigm. It recognized that for both financial and environmental reasons it was necessary to advocate for the rise of the e-book and the technology that makes all things digital possible. In order to respond to our readers’ concerns, many of whom aren’t yet ready to commit to the e-book revolution, SSP began to have its book published in Print On Demand on the Espresso Book Machine at McNally Jackson Books in New York City. Then it reached out to On Demand Books, the parent company of the Espresso Book Machine, to be included in their world wide system of Espresso Book Machines. For more information on all the various ways in which Sullivan Street Press is using new technology to create less pollution and waste in the publishing process, visit the website: http://www.sullivanstpress.com
You can find Sullivan Street Press here too:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sullivanstpress
Twitter: @sullivanstpress
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Sullivan Street Press, Leading Green E-Publisher, Launches New Website to Announce New Business Model for E-Publishing
As a leading publisher of e-books and a supporter of the green way forward in e-publishing, Sullivan Street Press hired Steve Rypka of GreenDreamWeb to create its new website.
(PRWEB) February 14, 2012
GreenDream Web provides environmentally-responsible web design and hosting services. All aspects of the company, from the design studio to the server facilities, are carbon-neutral and zero-energy, utilizing solar and wind power. Steve Rypka, GreenDreamWeb’s owner and designer says, “I think it’s a good idea to live on the planet as if we intend to stay.”
With the launch of the new website, Sullivan Street Press teamed up with Steve Rypka in order to stay on track with its mission to be environmentally friendly.
As the publisher, Deborah Emin says, “The new site allows us to make our books more available to a wider range of buyers. By providing a greater amount of information for the book buyer on all aspects of the ereader, from how they were developed, to the range of them available, to technical help on using them, we can offer more than even the sellers of ereading devices do now.”
Sullivan Street Press continues its green e-publisher commitment by providing readers with the fullest range of opportunities that exist today for participating in the new world of book publishing. One of the major overhauls on the site was to create a place where in real time all the Twitter feeds and Facebook postings that are gathered each day by SSP could be seen at once. Thus the “News You Can Use” feature of the site allows for an RSS feed for the book lover who wants to know what is happening in the world of books but doesn’t have the time to discover this for him or herself. In addition, the frequent blog postings are also included in this home page mix of news, views, book reviews, guest blogs and reports on what the future of publishing will be.
Publisher Emin says this about the usefulness of the new site: “SSP has always seen itself as having two missions, as we state, ‘to change the publishing paradigm’ and to sell books. With this new site, we are confident we can now do both.”
About the Publisher
Sullivan Street Press, Inc. is a green e-publisher whose mission is to change the publishing paradigm. For both environmental and financial reasons, we all need to be aware of how the new digital changes will affect the book business and the book lover. Sullivan Street Press disseminates timely information about these changing aspects of the publishing business.
For a review copy or for author interviews of our titles, please contact the publisher.
The publisher’s blog is at http://www.sullivanstpress.com
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Twitter: @sullivanstpress
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Sullivan Street Press Announces New Book Launch, Scags at 18, About Boomers for the OWS Moment
The leading e-publisher, Sullivan Street Press, is proud to announce the launch of Scags at 18 on December 1, 2011. Scags at 18 tells the eponymous’ hero’s story of her first semester at an elite college in Vermont during the final days of the turbulent 1960s. Arriving fresh-faced from Skokie, IL, Scags learns the major lessons of this pivotal time–sex and love, politics and feminism, literature and life with some rock ‘n’ roll thrown in.
New York, NY (PRWEB) November 29, 2011
The second volume of the Scags Series is now available. Scags at 18 tells the story of her first semester in College in the fall of 1969. Three historical events from that fall shape Scag’s experiences:
- October 1–the US release of the Beatles’ album, “Abbey Road”
- November 15–the anti-war march in DC that didn’t stop the Vietnam War or Nixon from watching football
- December 1–the first draft lottery based on the birthdays of all draft-eligible men
These three major historical events form the structure of this novel and show us what it was like for Scags, a young woman from Skokie, IL (a mostly Jewish enclave in the northern suburbs of Chicago) to arrive for the first time in at an elite school in Vermont. Having won a full scholarship to the unnamed College, Scags is painfully aware of how poor she is (e.g., one of her dorm mates drives a Bentley to classes).
The opportunity though to be at such a school and to make something meaningful out of her life leads her to experiment in several ways: to find a boyfriend and from that to learn what love is. To discover the power of feminism, specifically by reading Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own.”
It’s during her trip to DC to participate for the first time in an anti-war march that Scags experiences more than she could have imagined. She drops acid for the first and last time but during her “trip” she confronts the overlap between the political and the spiritual. While her life isn’t immediately changed by this, it’s now easier for Scags to understand who she is and what it is she wants and doesn’t want to do with her life.
The harrowing end to the novel isn’t one many readers will expect. Yet it puts into perspective the consequences of all that the 1960s excited in the young.
Scags at 18 is part of a 4-volume series that shows the awakenings of a woman to life. Rather than composed as a typical “coming of age” novel, these 4 separate parts of Scags’s life represent the different elements that make up a woman’s total character. Each volume is told in a different first-person voice. Scags at 18 is written as a diary.
About the Author
Deborah Emin, the author, is a writer, blogger and political junkie. She has hosted a reading series for her Queens neighborhood (the REZ Reading Series), been a campaign blogger for Dennis Kucinich’s 2008 presidential campaign. And she has taught writing to over 1000 students, several of whom went on to become successful writers.
About the Publisher
Sullivan Street Press, Inc. is an ebook-only publisher for both financial and environmental reasons. Sullivan Street Press also disseminates timely information about the changing nature of the publishing business.
For a review copy or for author interviews, please contact the publisher.
The author’s blog is at http://www.deborahemin.com.
The publisher’s facebook page is at http://www.facebook.com/sullivanstpress.
Twitter: @sullivanstpress
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