As described so nicely in this article, reprints serve many purposes, especially by allowing scholarship to extend to texts hitherto unavailable for many reasons. Our publishing list consists of many such reprints, often published with a new cover, an introductory note, or a publisher’s note. Three such reprints can be…
Category: Publishing
Self-publishing can be a really good thing
After postponing it many times for various reasons, we decided to have a panel discussion on the topic of self publishing, during the fourth edition of Publishing Next, held during the recently concluded World Book Fair. The panel discussed why we might see more people sign up for self publishing…
Will E-books Replace Traditional Paperbacks?
– Percy Parry The battle between the traditional paperbacks and the digital books goes on, mainly because of our endless love for them both. Now this often makes us wonder, or it at least makes me wonder, is there going to come a day where traditional paperbacks will finally become…
Steps to Self-Publishing
-Percy Parry We live in an age where technology and its advancements have helped make our lives so much more easier and simpler. Printing or getting your book published used to be such a hassle back in the old days. But now thanks to technology and the easy access to…
Basic Editorial Checks in Self-Publishing
-Percy Parry Watching the book you’ve worked so hard on finally get printed is a whole different feeling by itself. It‘s not like the feeling that you get when you hold in your hands a recently purchased book. No, it’s like holding a new born, your first born! The feeling…
A Whole Different Beast
-Percy Parry ‘The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book’. –Northrop Frye Considering that this statement was made with printed books in mind, will it still remain uncontested with the dawn of eBooks in the recent years? Comparing a book with an eBook is like…
The Ongoing Battle Between Poetry and eBooks
– Percy Parry ‘Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.’-Dennis Gabor Sadly, today poets face a lot of problems while publishing their book. While other kinds of books (i.e. fiction and non fiction books and novels) have blossomed, poetry has remained right where it had been….
eBooks in plain HTML
Over the years, there has been much debate on the appropriate format that eBooks should have. The eBook format a buyer of eBooks chooses will often depend on the reading device that buyer has, on whether he/she wishes to have the purchase synced to more than one device and the buyer’s…
Our books on Goa (and Goans)
A list of our publications on Goa (and or by Goans): Massacre in Margao: A Graphic History of the Revolt of 21 September 1890, ISBN: 9789381542828. The book, developed in the graphic format depicts the sequence of events leading to the rigging of the elections and the consequent firing on the…
Losing sleep over ebook pricing
We had discussed e-book pricing earlier and it seems like months later, there isn’t much clarity on how to price e-books, or having priced them, whether to offer a discount. I recently came across this infographic which reflected one experiment in ebook pricing. So while it isn’t a snapshot of the industry it…