December 17th, 2008 / 5:01 pm
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Paper Egg Books

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Featherproof has a ‘new baby’ and it’s called Paper Egg Books.

From the website:

Ladies and gentlemen, we humbly welcome you all to the future of publishing. Just kidding.

Actually, welcome to this new thing we’re doing. The “we” is featherproobooks, and the “thing” is a subscription-only series of books. Here’s the idea: You subscribe to paper egg for just $20 a year, and we send you two beautiful, limited-edition books by some of the most exciting authors working today, writing in disciplines often disregarded by that big, ugly marketplace (we’re talking little, beautiful forms like the novella and the short-story collection). More soon, as we get hatching.

I don’t know much else about the project as the site is still unfurnished, but the idea sounds cool. Keep an eye on this; they say more to come in early 2009.

(Thanks to Tobias Carroll for the link)

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23 Comments

  1. Shane Jones

      i got excited when i read this post.

  2. Shane Jones

      i got excited when i read this post.

  3. j. a. tyler

      me too.

  4. j. a. tyler

      me too.

  5. Kevin Sampsell

      Featherproof does quality stuff. QUALITY!
      This is going to be good.

  6. Kevin Sampsell

      Featherproof does quality stuff. QUALITY!
      This is going to be good.

  7. Ken Baumann

      I look forward to more information, this is exciting. Something NEW in PUBLISHING. Good, brave.

  8. Ken Baumann

      I look forward to more information, this is exciting. Something NEW in PUBLISHING. Good, brave.

  9. pr

      i like the way “egg shell” grooves with “beautiful, limited edition” NIce.

  10. barry

      i like what featherproof does a lot.

      but what’s the “NEW”

  11. barry

      i like what featherproof does a lot.

      but what’s the “NEW”

  12. Blake Butler

      awesome

  13. Blake Butler

      awesome

  14. Jonathan

      Oh man, I wrote that “about” info at “about” 2:30am, after a six-hour struggle to install some open-source subscription management software. That’s somewhat embarrassing now that people are actually looking at it, but hell, so’s the rest of my life.

      I guess what’s primarily new about it is that the books will be limited-edition and subscription-only. But we admit that it’s not that new. There’s some business-model stuff that I won’t get into here, that might be sort of new. We’ll have some more info soon, some announcements we’re pretty excited to make, including the first authors lined up, etc.

      Thanks, everyone, for the kind words.

  15. Jonathan

      Oh man, I wrote that “about” info at “about” 2:30am, after a six-hour struggle to install some open-source subscription management software. That’s somewhat embarrassing now that people are actually looking at it, but hell, so’s the rest of my life.

      I guess what’s primarily new about it is that the books will be limited-edition and subscription-only. But we admit that it’s not that new. There’s some business-model stuff that I won’t get into here, that might be sort of new. We’ll have some more info soon, some announcements we’re pretty excited to make, including the first authors lined up, etc.

      Thanks, everyone, for the kind words.

  16. Ryan Call

      jonathan, whatever it will be, it sounds cool.

  17. Ryan Call

      jonathan, whatever it will be, it sounds cool.

  18. zach

      Books made from eggs, is what it will be, actually. Delicious.

  19. zach

      Books made from eggs, is what it will be, actually. Delicious.

  20. barry

      johnathan:

      indeed. whatever it is im sure it will be amazing. i love the stuff you guys been doing. take care.

  21. barry

      johnathan:

      indeed. whatever it is im sure it will be amazing. i love the stuff you guys been doing. take care.

  22. KevinO

      love their logo!

  23. KevinO

      love their logo!