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 →
Streaming on YouTube & FaceBook on December 7, 2020, 8pm ET Lineup includes Diana Krall, Esperanza Spalding, Kurt Elling, Danilo Pérez, Terri LyneCarrington, Grace Kelly, Catherine Russell, Kat Edmonson, John Patitucci, Jason Palmer,James Montgomery, Bo Winiker, and a special appearance by Pat Metheny, Roger Brown,Harry Connick Jr., Robin Young, and others. The continuing legacy of →
Impresario Fred Taylor lit up the Boston music scene for decades. He made one of the first recordings of Dave Brubeck, and brought to his venues — notably, the Jazz Workshop, Paul’s Mall, and Scullers — headliners such as Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Art Blakey, Weather Report, Pat Metheny, and Charles Mingus. Bob →
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 →
May 5, 2020 OBS posts these CDC guidelines as a public service, as Massachusetts and other states and localities consider reopening their economies while COVID-19 remains at large in our communities. CDC submitted to White House (downloaded from San Jose Mercury News) Interim Guidance for Child Care Programs The reopening of child care programs is →
May Day! It’s May Day! We have three options to celebrate this day: a joyful, youthful celebration and dance; a protest of the masses against the elite; or a desperate cry for help. This pandemic year, it looks like all three types of May Day celebration were in order for the publishing industry. Remember the →
Rockport, Massachusetts, March 13, 2020 – Open Book Systems, Inc. continues to monitor the COVID-19 situation closely and is taking appropriate measures to ensure the health and safety of our employees and their families, as well as continuing to offer uninterrupted service to our customers. Since Tuesday, March 10, our staff and vendors are working →
OBS is back again at the Frankfurt Book Fair again this October, ready to hit the ground running, exploring, and discovering digital publishing innovations and ideas for our clients and partners. One exciting initiative we are exploring is how blockchain networks can be put to use to update and streamline traditional publishing processes. The combination →
No shadow falls between the delivery and the publication, no hiatus between the thought and the thing itself! Our author delivered to his publisher Backbeat Books (an imprint of Globe Pequot Press) the last of the photos in his art program on Sunday night, September 22, and on Monday, September 23, his new book, “What →