Our business at Open Book Systems, Inc., focuses largely on internet-based publishing solutions for companies and nonprofits. We designed and built a poetry database for a university press. We build and maintain an online publishing portal for a medical nonprofit. We designed and custom-coded an early-childhood-assessment site used to evaluate children ages 0-6. And then →
The other day I signed a third-party agreement to back up to the cloud our document repository. Functionality: kind of ho-hum, routine, and back-end. Cost: about $200 per year. However, the agreement took weeks to negotiate and ended up being over 30 pages of gobbledygook legalese, replete with WHEREASes and disclaimers and tangled prose. By →
How Chiyoji Nakagawa Became a Soldier for Peace and Changed the World This is a transcript of a story told by Nakagawa’s daughter, Seiko Takase (Representative Director, Association for the Preservation of the UN Peace Bell), on a Zoom call held on behalf of the Earth Society Foundation, of which OBS President Laura Fillmore is →
Join us on April 11 at 6pm EST for a Zoom discussion with Richard Brewster, author of Witchcraft Legacy: Stories from the Big Attic, hosted by the Rockport Public Library. Click here to register online (required). As a child, author Richard Brewster discovered a book in his attic that once belonged to the chief judge of the 1692 →
As nations supporting Ukrainian resistance hurry to deliver military weaponry to the front, and as volunteer soldiers join the fray from around the world, promising to defend democracy by fighting fire with fire, the nuclear nations of the world — specifically the U.S. — have an unprecedented opportunity to practice peace, to try and change →
Panel discussion: January 25, 2022, 12 PM EST Click here to join the free event on Zoom! Event sponsored by The American Book Center in Amsterdam, and managed by Harvard Book Store Before sailing to America in 1620, the Pilgrims found refuge from persecution in England in the Dutch city of Leiden. There they enjoyed →
OBS imprint Protean Press is proud to announce the release of its latest title, “Witchcraft Legacy: Stories from the Big Attic” by Richard Brewster. As a boy, Protean Press author Richard Brewster and his brother discovered an ancient tome buried in a trunk in their attic, with a flyleaf inscribed by William Stoughton, Chief Judge →
OBS imprint Protean Press is proud to announce the publication of Carl Oglesby’s Clandestine America: Conspiracies from the Nazi “Surrender” to Dallas, Watergate, and Beyond (Protean Press, 2020). Protean Press publisher Laura Fillmore is looking forward to today’s virtual book launch, hosted on Zoom by the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts and co-sponsored by →
A surge of American writers turns pens, minds, power and time to the immediate common cause of restoring democracy to the United States – click here to learn more.
Supplementing our core business of offering publishing services, OBS also from time to time publishes books under the imprint of Protean Press. This October we bring out the posthumous publication of selected writings by Carl Oglesby, an author OBS worked with in many capacities over the years. Clandestine America is a collection of three of →