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Sunstone’s Gift to Me and You

1.03.12

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Sunstone, quietly and without any fanfare that I’m aware of, has made it’s archives (save the few most recent issues) available for free online.
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Including the comics issue I edited! Which is primo content, I assure you.
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Sunstone has just provided an incredible resource which I encourage you to check out.
For free!
Although, speaking of [...]

Poetry, asters to zeppelins

8.08.11

I started to comment on Tyler’s post, “Preach on, Sister Meyer.  Preach On.” But—look out—the comment mushroomed.  Adam G’s comment especially caught my attention. His question seems to be, is it possible to talk about poetry—especially in terms of hierarchies and other high-falutin’ standards for determining a poem’s worthiness—with language that doesn’t float above us [...]

Deseret Book creates an app–but why?

6.15.11

Last week the Salt Lake Tribune reported that Deseret Book has produced its own eReader app to make its books available on Apple iPhones and iPads. Since its ebooks were already available on the Kindle, I’ve been thinking about why many publishers have decided to do this, and what it might mean for the future [...]

Is Deseret Book the only LDS publisher worth publishing with?

5.18.11

Last week in a guest post on Dawning of a Brighter Day, Jana Riess suggested that Mormon novelists have a more difficult time getting published than those in the Christian market because Deseret Book dominates the LDS market so much. [I can't resist pointing out that I've argued the same thing here on A Motley [...]

Publishing Economics I: The real costs come before you print

5.09.11

Over the past few years I’ve come across statements that show a misunderstanding of the basic costs and economics that book publishers and producers face. For example, there are regular complaints about the cost of ebooks in comparison to print books, generally suggesting that publishers have priced ebooks unreasonably high. Other statements imply that traditional [...]

What’s happened with LDS audiobooks?

4.06.11

I’m not sure that I know the answer to this question, so I thought I’d outline what I think I know, and ask others for their takes about what’s happened to LDS audiobooks.
I have the impression that the market for LDS audiobooks has faded away. Despite a relative revolution in audio, due to technology, LDS [...]

Distinguishing between Distribution and Deseret Book

2.24.11

Last month the Church announced that it will close about a dozen Distribution stores this year (and more over the next few years) and instead sell materials through Deseret Book outlets. The move continues and expands a two-year-old program that started with Deseret Book stores in Ogden, St. George, and Salt Lake City, Utah, Idaho [...]

Sanitizing Twain

1.07.11

Before you read beyond the first couple paragraphs of this post, write down or answer mentally what you think about yesterday’s news that a newly published edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was altered to remove the word “nigger” and replace it with the word “slave.” The edition also replaces the word “injun” with [...]