Victoria Woodhull: Thinking Today's Thoughts 150 Years Ago

With all the hoopla surrounding Hillary Clinton's historic nomination for the Presidency of the United States, it's important to remember that her "first" comes with a caveat: she's the first female nominee for President from one of the two major parties. But long before she broke that ( Read more... )

Before he was President of the United States, before he was a military tactician leading his nation to independence, before he was a surveyor or an officer in the French and Indian War, George Washington was a school boy, just like millions of his fellows then and now. And as a school boy, one of his assigned tasks was hand copying a list of 110 " ( Read more... )

In honor of Benjamin Harrison's 181st birthday today, Gray Rabbit Publications has published the Speeches of Benjamin Harrison in a newly typeset modern edition with brand-new maps detailing Harrison's journeys. The book is available in both hardcover and trade paperback ( Read more... )

I only write one or two checks a month for the publishing company, so I don’t have to order new checks very often. So naturally, when I get to the “time to re-order” reminder atop one of the packs of checks, I ignore it ( Read more... )

A cautionary warning for publishers considering doing business with The Book Shop in Somerville, Massachusetts (694 Broadway; www.bookshopsomerville.com; thebookshop@yahoo.com). I sent more than $250 worth of books to the store on credit, for a January signing at which nearly all the books sold. Despite my repeated requests for payment, and several ( Read more... )

I have the best authors in the world ( Read more... )

A press release from Fantastic Books:Setting the price for physical books here at Fantastic Books is pretty easy. As a rule of thumb, the cover price is two and a half times the cost of printing/binding the physical book (rounded, of course; it’d be confusing to list one book at $14.73 and the next at $15.12). Everything else is determined by that ( Read more... )

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This is a question more for the publishers out there, but I’ll take reasoned input from anyone. It’s about reviews, and the new world of social media, and from a publisher’s point of view, I’m just not sure ( Read more... )