From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Sun Jun 03 2007 - 08:11:14 EDT
The announcement by Al Giordano (follow link below) makes some interesting claims about the publishing industry. They include comments about international book shipping costs, "Commercial Media book reviews are overrated", and "Bloggers and Independent Media move books". There isn't much in the way of statistical evidence, though, which is presented. In solidarity, Jerry ------------------------ Original Message ---------------------------- May 31, 2007 Please Distribute Widely Dear Colleagues, Narco News Books is proud to announce the completion of printing of Nancy Davies' new book, "The People Decide: Oaxaca's Popular Assembly," which is a culmination of Davies' reports and commentary from Oaxaca for the past year with additional updates. Narco News today also makes the book available at low group rates and offers free review copies to bloggers and other independent media reviewers. In his announcement of the official release of Davies' new book, Al Giordano, publisher of Narco News, writes: "The book is not available on Amazon or other companies like it (which demand exorbitant profits although they do none of the labor of creating most of the books they sell) or through any other commercial distributor. As with everything else we've done at Narco News, we've cut out the middlemen and mediators to bring the news - for the first time, now, in book form - directly to the public. "...And judging from the book's popularity at four events held already in Quebec and the United States where it was available, Narco News Books is showing that the middlemen and mediators are unnecessary for a book to succeed. At the Montreal Anarchist Book Fair on May 19, seventy-five readers donated to The Fund for Authentic Journalism and walked away with a gift copy of the book. At three subsequent events in Montpelier and Burlington, Vermont, 30 more contributed and received the book." Read the complete announcement of release of "The People Decide: Oaxaca's Popular Assembly," with some interesting things we've learned about bypassing the book publishing industry, and also about special Study and Action packages available now for readers, organizations - and free review copies for bloggers! - at Narco News: http://www.narconews.com <http://www.narconews.com> And you can order your own copy of the book online at The Fund for Authentic Journalism website: http://www.authenticjournalism.org <http://www.authenticjournalism.org> >From somewhere in a country called América, David B. Briones Webmaster The Narco News Bulletin http://www.narconews.com <http://www.narconews.com> webmaster@narconews.com <mailto:webmaster%40narconews.com>
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