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 →
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 →
Protean Press has reached out to Ronen Bergman – a New York Times journalist who published a story this week about Franz Josef Huber, a top commander in Hitler’s secret police, who evaded prosecution and punishment after World War II – to invite him to read “The Secret Ending of World War II: How Nazism →
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 →
BEA has always been the book industry’s main show of the year in the US, when publishers release their Fall lists to the bookstores and libraries, offering advanced peeks at exciting new books in the form of readings, advance galleys, and author breakfasts. Vendors to the trade used to enjoy a major presence at the →
As things speed up to such an extent that there remains no time any more to muse, ponder, discuss, cogitate, and write things down, the old adage that the pen is mightier than the sword appears to be morphing into “the phone is mightier than the sword.” Witness the recent rise of live streaming as →
We are beginning to experiment with two book projects that leverage blockchain technology to track users’ ownership of ebooks. We were attracted to the blockchain because it appears to address issues fundamental to the publishing industry — such as, for example, what it means to “own” a digital object like an ebook — while also moving us →
When a publication gets empowered by blockchain technology, one can truly say that a reader never steps into the same book twice. Blockchain enables internet-published content to emulate life itself — both the perceived (the content), and the perceivers (publishers and readers) — in a recorded environment that captures and publishes a constant state of content →
In 2007, Christopher Hail began to contribute to the scholarly research on the work of Domenico Scarlatti by authoring an erudite, witty, and successful website dedicated to the Italian composer. He contributed to it daily, until his death in 2014. Given the relevance of Hail’s research, his family estate resolved to publish the content of →