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Welcome Indie Book Readers! Want to be part of something important? Want to be the first on your block to know what's what? Well, bookmark this page and keep check back in the weeks ahead. Soon we'll have author showcases, publisher features, book reviews, and more!
Find Featured Publishers, Authors, and Books We're just getting started with our efforts to build a one-of-a-kind community for independent authors, publishers, and bookstores. Follow these links to find information about currently featured publishers, authors, and books: We have a growing library of resources for both authors and publishers. Click here to visit. We need more contributors especially from booksellers at independent bookstores. We also need volunteer editors. Click here for details about contributing. What do others have to save about indie publishing and authors... "[Large publishers are
afraid of losing their marketplace advantage, and they should be.]
It will be a welcome development when the playing field is finally
leveled--when mainstream publishers don't automatically enjoy an
advantage over small publishers because of entrenched privilege, but
instead have to earn a superior marketplace position by consistently
providing customers with a better reading experience." "[Large publishers have a]
ridiculous, archaic business model... Publishing industry, come
kicking and screaming into the 21st Century, either get up to speed
or end up getting rolled over. You're a dinosaur and either you
recognize and acknowledge the inroads [indie publishers] are making
or be prepared to be steamrolled over." "Distinguishing offset and digital books is a non-issue. Digital books will continue to improve as the technology develops. This will happen rapidly. I'd be more concerned by all the other changes that digital printing is causing in the business. It is already part of both the production and the distribution processes, and it has already moved the barrier to successful books from production into marketing. This is accelerating. I suspect that within 10 years or so, most books sold will be digital. The implications of digital printing are revolutionary, like it or not..."—R.G, a publisher "Books sell regardless. Is
it a good story, does it look like a book, and do [buyers] have
purchase options including ordering it through a brick-mortar store
if they choose to? That's what they care about…" "...It is now possible for
an individual or a micro-publisher to bring out a book that can
compete with any other book in the store. The issue is not who the
new publishers are (authors or otherwise), but the enormous increase
in competition for the readers' attention. The advent of tens of
thousands of new publishing companies staffed by creative, driven
and innovative people may be the best thing that could happen to the
publishing industry.... I hope that a large number of [small, indie
publishers] thrive and continue to contribute to our industry and to
the breadth of intellectual exchange in our culture."
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Go Indie for Authors and Publishers Are you an indie author or publisher? Would you
like to be featured? To date, we've received over 5,000 submissions.
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Go Indie for Contributors Nearly 200 contributors have
already signed up. Do you have experience as an author, reviewer,
bookseller or in
publishing? Would you like to be a contributor?
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