another sky
- From: Bowerbird@[redacted]
- Subject: another sky
- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 04:44:57 EDT
"another sky" is a new e-publisher out of portland.
> http://www.anothersky.org/
looks like these cats are from my tribe...
they're letting people read their books for free online
and making paper copies available at their cost, then
asking readers to voluntarily pay whatever they want
over and above that, _if_ the reader enjoyed the book.
i'd like to see the publishing houses grow balls that big.
(and the movie studios too.)
i'm not sure "another sky" has _all_ their bases covered --
> With us, it's different. It's more like the author
> starts with 100% -- and instead of us offering them
> a royalty, they decide what the others involved recieve.
-- seems like somebody should have decided a proofreader
got a cut of the action there, but still, all in all, they're doing
the type of experiment and making the sorts of noises that
i wish more people were attempting, so i give them props...
and also, i always like it when online book-designers realize
that a 2-up facing-pages display works extremely neatly on
today's monitors...
-bowerbird