In our capacity as literary agents for John D. “Jasper” Herrick, Protean Press, a subdivision of Open Book Systems Inc., is pleased to announce the October 2026 publication by University of North Texas Press of No Good War: An Infantry Memoir of the Vietnam War by John Herrick. The war in Vietnam and the →
Today, over four million books are published annually, which is nearly 15 times more than the number published just twenty years ago. This change is largely driven by the surge in self-publishing platforms and print-on-demand technology, both of which effectively eliminate the traditional barriers to entry to the book publishing industry – access to global →
The Human/Machine Interface (HMI) took its first steps decades ago in the form of crude WordStar spellchecker intrusions on our static documents. Now, the walk has picked up to a polka pace as publishing becomes a real-time, global interchange of ideas and information. Medical publishing in particular pushes the pace towards an intimate pairing of →
Our business at Open Book Systems, Inc., focuses largely on internet-based publishing solutions for companies and nonprofits. But every now and again, we return to our roots in traditional book publishing in support of extraordinary projects. Author John Herrick found OBS president Laura Fillmore thanks to an acknowledgement author Joe Garland made to her in →
We recently test drove ChatGPT on writing a press release for a new medical book, an assignment that, during the pen-centric era of prose, would have taken a professional medical copywriter a few hours and cost several hundred dollars. As food for “thought,” we fed the AI algorithm the Table of Contents, chapter abstracts, first →
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 →
OBS imprint Protean Press is proud to announce the release of Grand Canyon Ecstasy: The Psyche of Water and Stone by Dennis L. Outwater. The title is now available for purchase in print and digital formats at all major e-tailers. Click here to view the book on Amazon. Grand Canyon Ecstasy is an exploration of →
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 →