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Ebooks have no style

March 30, 2011 by E. Rowan

I’m finally beginning to understand so many literary publisher’s resistance to ebooks: There is no room for real literature in these formats. Using the top two current digital book formats, ePub and Mobi, it’s difficult to present the content as more than a string of words. And literature is more than a string of words. The experience of reading the book matters, the presentation matters. If you had to read Shakespeare without any line breaks, or proper pagination, it would […]

Categories: Publishing • Tags: 21st century publishing, Anomalous, ebooks, independent publishing, poetry, publishing

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21st Century Publishing

March 29, 2011 by E. Rowan

A few weeks I went to a conference on 21st century publishing held at Emerson College and sponsored by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. When I received the announcement I was impressed and excited, the subject was Business Models for 21st Century Publishing and this is something, with the launch of my new press, I’d been giving a lot of thought to. The day itself started ominously enough when the managing editor of Ploughshares asked if there was a hashtag for […]

Categories: Publishing • Tags: 21st century publishing, Agni, Anomalous, Bateau Press, Emerson, hilobrow, independent publishing, Memorious, net neutrality, new media, Ploughshares, publishing, Weightless Books

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Down the Hole – to Issuu

February 7, 2010 by E. Rowan

Every now and then I get sucked into the internet and click through to some pretty amazing things. Occasionally I like to track them, for posterity or others who are interested in the same things I am. I began with Poetry International Web’s newest article on Colombian Poetry which reminded me that I’ve always wanted to go to the International Poetry Festival in Medellín and this year is their twentieth year. Sadly the dates are in direct conflict with something […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Issuu, Medellín International Poetry Festival, Poetry International Web, publishing, Rattapallax

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