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  Stories Can Lead to More Stories

  1670 readersBy Amanda DeMarco Small Demons CEO Valla Vakili speaks at the StoryDrive Frankfurt conference There’s book discovery that’s driven by your social network, and book discovery that’s driven by recommendation (“People who bought this also bought that”), but what about story-driven discovery? Los Angeles-based startup Small Demons searches books for references (not just to other books, but to

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  Small Demons: Seeking A Better Path to Book Discovery

  1218 readersLos Angeles-based Web start-up Small Demons uses cultural references and details embedded in books as a starting point to aid readers in finding their next book By Valla Vakili, CEO, Small Demons A few years ago I was planning a trip to Madrid and Paris from Los Angeles. I was also deep into Jean-Claude Izzo’s Total Chaos,

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  Small Demons builds concordance to aid book discovery

  2527 readersI ran across another one of those guest posts on Publishing Perspectives where the founder of a publishing-related business is invited to talk about the idea behind that business. This one seems to involve a method for enabling discovery of new books in the age of the e-book. Small Demons, explains CEO Valla Vakili, was

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  #BEA11: Publishers Debate Future of Enhanced E-books at IDPF Conferen

  3359 readersBy Hannah Johnson In a roundtable discussion at the IDPF Digital Book Conference, panelists — Evan Schnittman (Bloomsbury), Dominique Raccah (Sourcebooks) and Richard Nash (Red Lemonade, Cursor) — discussed the future of the publishing business by way of enhanced e-books and apps. Raccah, the CEO of mid-sized publisher Sourcebooks, was the lone champion of both enhanced e-books

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  Red Lemonade to provide review copies without DRM

  2619 readersGalleycat is reporting this after an email interview with Richard Nash, Red Lemonade’s founder. …  Nash explained his unconventional policy: “Well, I don’t think consumer books should have DRM, so putting DRM on reviewers’ books is even dumber. I want to make it as easy as possible to get it to you, as easy as

• Richard Nash Q&A: Sneak Peak at Redlemonade, Discusses Reading, Personal History

  1375 readersBy Chris Kubica Last week, I asked my colleague, Richard Nash, founder of Cursor—a “Publishing 3.0” startup based in Brooklyn, New York, publishing consultant, and former editor and chief of Soft Skull Press—if I could have a p...

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  Richard Nash and Harold Augenbraum interviewed on WNYC

  1456 readersHarold Augenbraum, executive director of the National Book Foundation that presents the National Book Awards, discusses this year’s winner, a book published by a small independent press, and what that means for the future of publishing. Also, Richard Nash, who ran the New York indie press Soft Skull for almost a decade, weighs in on

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  Gaza or Bust: Palestine Festival of Literature Perseveres

  1533 readersBy Olivia Snaje The traveling literary festival, PalFest, has never been easy to organize logistically but this year’s 5th edition is particularly ambitious. Since its inception in 2008, the London-based Palestine Festival of Literature has accompanied writers and artists to Palestine since Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation are unable to move freely themselves. This year, festival

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  Bible Scholar Contests Half Of New Testament

  957 readersThe Bible is one of the bestselling books of all time, including digital book versions, which often make the Top Grossing app lists on both iTunes and Android. It is also a book that charges people up. The latest excitement is from renowned biblical sc...

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  Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Richard Russo, releases latest book in print only

  789 readersFrom The Telegraph: Richard Russo, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, says his latest novel, Interventions, ”is a tribute to the printed book” and is not for sale in an electronic version. His new book is intended to give readers a “book book” – as he calls printed books – experience. … Russo, talking to the Associated Press from