The Scowl is good bloggish
In this interview at The Scowl, Jonathan Messinger is well-spoken about Paper Egg books — the subscription imprint from those pros at Featherproof. It’s sensible stuff; by using a subscription model, they know how to set their expectations and can take bigger risks with the work they publish. And that’s better for everybody in the world.
I like The Scowl a lot. It’s hipper’n me.
Tags: Jonathan Messinger, Paper Egg, Tobias Carroll
good interview – i liked hearing about there differences between paperegg and fproof ‘vision’ or something
good interview – i liked hearing about there differences between paperegg and fproof ‘vision’ or something
That was good.
That was good.
i really like what featherproof/paper egg are doing. i was also excited that fproof has a kid book coming out (Grow!) finally something i can carry in the store i manage!
i really like what featherproof/paper egg are doing. i was also excited that fproof has a kid book coming out (Grow!) finally something i can carry in the store i manage!
Good interview. I am excited about getting paper eggs in the mail for the next ten years.
Can we have a rational and not-excitable discussion about books being introduced as limited editions though? Doesn’t it kind of limit their potential to be read by a lot of people? Isn’t it kind of like the benefit is more for the growth of the publisher than the growth of readership for the author? Would they deny serious demand for a book? Maybe this is all okay. I don’t know anything! Just thinking into my keyboard. Sorry! Probably we can’t have a rational discussion here because we are too in love with indie presses to question them? They are struggling as is and fuck me for questioning them, right? Does anyone know where I can have a rational discussion? I know. In my own head. Thanks for playing! Sorry for commenting. Paper eggs! Buildings crumbling into works of art! There are pencils grow from our noses to our toes!
Good interview. I am excited about getting paper eggs in the mail for the next ten years.
Can we have a rational and not-excitable discussion about books being introduced as limited editions though? Doesn’t it kind of limit their potential to be read by a lot of people? Isn’t it kind of like the benefit is more for the growth of the publisher than the growth of readership for the author? Would they deny serious demand for a book? Maybe this is all okay. I don’t know anything! Just thinking into my keyboard. Sorry! Probably we can’t have a rational discussion here because we are too in love with indie presses to question them? They are struggling as is and fuck me for questioning them, right? Does anyone know where I can have a rational discussion? I know. In my own head. Thanks for playing! Sorry for commenting. Paper eggs! Buildings crumbling into works of art! There are pencils grow from our noses to our toes!
But doesn’t not providing this as a publishing option limit a writer’s options?
Also, I’m not sure if it really limits an author’s readership– it may actually enhance it in the same way we have a tendency to want what we can’t have.
Also, more than large publishers, readers have a tendency to trust a small publisher to publish things they consistently want to read, like how we trust a local butcher with our meat more than the dumb supermarket kid. So you can kind of make an assumption that anyone who reads one of the books will probably want to read all of them anyway. It’s sort like elevating the status of book publisher to periodical, since there is a trend of buyers of independent literature to cling to particular publishers anyway.
But doesn’t not providing this as a publishing option limit a writer’s options?
Also, I’m not sure if it really limits an author’s readership– it may actually enhance it in the same way we have a tendency to want what we can’t have.
Also, more than large publishers, readers have a tendency to trust a small publisher to publish things they consistently want to read, like how we trust a local butcher with our meat more than the dumb supermarket kid. So you can kind of make an assumption that anyone who reads one of the books will probably want to read all of them anyway. It’s sort like elevating the status of book publisher to periodical, since there is a trend of buyers of independent literature to cling to particular publishers anyway.
i thought about this, too, while reading the interview. but i thought these are “first editions” as Messinger stated. there’s nothing to stop there from being a second edition of the book if there’s demand for it, from a different press or even from Featherproof, just not Paper Egg.
i thought about this, too, while reading the interview. but i thought these are “first editions” as Messinger stated. there’s nothing to stop there from being a second edition of the book if there’s demand for it, from a different press or even from Featherproof, just not Paper Egg.
limited, first editions. I see that now. good point.
limited, first editions. I see that now. good point.