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Category Archives: OBS News
A Look Back on OBS
We saw the e-wave coming over thirty years ago and are working today to help publishers adapt to and profit from new internet-based publishing opportunities. Read the below excerpt from a “What’s New” OBS posted over ten years ago; you … Continue reading
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Global Publishing: Plugging in to a Changing Game
OBS will present on a panel at the first annual Independent Publishers of New England (IPNE — http://www.ipne.org/) conference, “Survive and Thrive,” tomorrow, March 26, 2011, in Waltham. David Godine will be the Keynote speaker. Looking forward to it!
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Saving Huck
The price of freedom is vigilance; this sanitized version of “Huckleberry Finn” shows that we need to be vigilant now, protest (http://www.newsouthbooks.com/pages/2011/01/10/conversations-on-newsouths-edition-of-mark-twains-tom-sawyer-and-huckleberry-finn/) its publication, and protect our recorded civilization from “e-book evanescence,” where the “real,” the permanent and paper-published book falls subsidiary to PC-driven “googlizations,” new and censored e-versions. E-censors can try and control our collective online archives, profit from the gutting, sanitizing and repackaging of art, and in so doing, alter our past, stupefy our present, and control our future. This is not a tolerable outcome for thinking people. Allowing such adulterating of our common library, on our watch, without comment, is tantamount to publishing the censored version of “Huckleberry Finn” ourselves. Continue reading
Posted in OBS News, Publishing and Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Animal Farm, bowdlerization, censorship, google, Huckleberry Finn, NewSouth
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ABA to BEA and Beyond
Published in the IPNE Newsletter–June 2010 Back when BookExpo America (BEA) was the American Booksellers Association (ABA) Convention and Trade Exhibit, this was the biggest, most lavish book conference in the country, where the publishers introduced their fall lists … Continue reading
Posted in Bookselling, New Technology, OBS News, Protean Press
Tagged aba, bea, book industry, new media
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