I’m really excited about this:
Another Sky Press has launched a publishing company based on something they’re calling “neo-patronage. All their books will be available to read for free on the net. If you want a paperback edition, pay the price of production and shipping plus whatever you can afford, on a sliding scale. If you want to pay extra as an expression of your support and appreciation, you can do that, too.
Their guiding principle is: the audience is the sole arbitrator of value.
This is so DIY, so New-Internet-Meritocracy… it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. It’s like they looked into my soul and wrote a business plan. If I wouldn’t get sued for doing it, I’d post a picture of Snoopy doing that dance where his ears are all floppy and his legs are just a bunch of oval lines in the dust. That’s how happy this makes me.
Please give them a visit… read their offerings. Order a book, just to tell them (and the author), that you love them, their bravery, and their vision.
This is the future, brothers and sisters, and it’s here.
keiko
This company sounds promising. I like to see publishers stepping out of the traditional, oppressive model for business because it strangles creativity. Then again, we are all aware of the problems associated with a system that works on controlling all aspects of production. Needless to say, thank you for the link. I will look into my store of short stories to see if I have anything that they’d likely be able to use in the upcoming anthology. Thanks again for the connections, MW.
Keiko