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 →
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 →
“End of an era!“ writes a colleague from London when the news hit: https://publishingperspectives.com/2020/12/reedpop-cancels-new-yorks-bookexpo-bookcon-retiring-the-event-permanently-covid19/ “No more dinners, dancing, or fun, ever again, anywhere, any more…” “Oh, sad,” I responded. “What times we’ve had!” I remember the BEA show in Miami in 1994, the heady elation after the first day of our Internet Start-up Booth. It →
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 →