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A resource-and-rant center for the independent publisher, and for authors who are exploring independent publishing and self-publishing as pathways to publication and to connecting with readers. Created by Stephen Windwalker and my colleagues at Harvard Perspectives Press.
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Selling Used Books Online (2002)
Independently published by Stephen Windwalker, now in its 5th printing
Copyright Harvard Perspectives Press, 2007.
Books & Resources from Harvard Perspectives Press
- Selling Used Books Online: The Complete Guide to Bookselling at Amazon's Marketplace and Other Online Sites (by Stephen Windwalker)
- On Trying to Paint (by M. Robert Gardner)
- Digital Directories for the Independent Author-Publisher: Book and CD-ROM Package (by Stephen Windwalker)
- Cher Pierre: Le Francais et les Francais--A Guide to Paris, Its People, and Their Language (by M. Robert Gardner)
- Buying Books Online: Finding Bargains and Saving Money with Booksense Stores, Amazon Marketplace, and Other Online Sites (by Stephen Windwalker)
- Before I Knew Any Better: A Fictional Memoir (by Alicia Wentworth)
- Anthrax: A Practical Guide for Citizens--What You Should Know, What You Can Do, & How It Came to This
- A Day at the Ballpark, and Other Stories (Paperback Original; 1st edition) by Steve Holt
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Independence, energy, and creativity
This is a blog about how certain seams in reality advance happy confluences of what we want to do, what we need to do, and what we are newly able to do, so that a playing field may actually seem to be tilted in our favor if we have the independence, energy, and creativity to recognize and take advantage of new challenges. It is a blog that is informed both by a positive, imaginative vision of new relationships among authors, readers, and the gatekeepers of the book trade, and by a dark, chilling apprehension of the status quo: of what those old relationships have become and how they cheat us all. As with almost any sincere call for change it attempts too much, because it seeks to weave together poetic polemic, passionate critique, and the purposes of an inspirational manual or organizing guide. Throughout these posts I will make an honest if uneven effort to avoid demonizing the big mainstream publishers and their practices, but I am sure I will slip occasionally into making cheap shorthand use of circumstances such as the appearances of Jenna Jameson and Paris Hilton on the bestseller lists because, to the extent that I am preaching to the choir, such circumstances make a point easily and save me pages and pages of fairly dull delineations. At the same time, I will try to avoid hyping anything just because it happens to “smell like indie spirit:” if the ventures of Dave Eggers deserve credit here, it is because of the quality of each venture, rather than because of his emerging indie rock star status or what Kevin Larimer aptly called “the Six Degrees of Dave Eggers game” in his column in the January 2007 issue of Poets & Writers.
Stephen Windwalker
March 2007
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