Archive for the ‘Publishing’ Category
Amazon doesn’t do a good job letting you know when a print book becomes a Kindle book…. I ran into this problem so many times that I created a website which lets me monitor print books on Amazon.com to alert me the moment they become Kindle books:
http://oscurapress.com/mysteria
And while doing that, I found that it was pretty easy to do the same for MP3 songs and Unbox videos as well. There’s a slow but steady digital revolution happening, and all the world’s content is (slowly, but steadily) being converted. Mysteria lets you pick the content you want in your wishlist, and once it’s converted to digital format, sends you an email.
It’s a brand-spanking new application, so I’m really interested in hearing early-adopter feedback if you have it. You can email me at jason@oscurapress.com
Thanks!
One of the problems with print literature is the cost barrier with doing full-color interior spreads; books are often 3 to 4 times more expensive to publish in full color. In compositing an image for The Apocryphon of Oxtan Imlay, which is a story in a new forthcoming book, I collaged images from 1860s Civil War-era newspapers, as well as an illustration from a Quaker magazine circa 1910, a cactus from a Mexican cigar box, and my favorite sun image, which I had originally scanned in wayway back wen I was in Canada, consulting for CIBC on long winter weekends. A red wash made the images striking, but unusable in the interior of a black and white spread, so I post the full color image here.I was inspired by a recent Kara Walker exhibit in Paris, and her black-and-white style of illustration and collage really contributed at a meaningful time to an evolution of style I had been making in illustration. This upcoming book hilights the new style of illustration, but this particular illustration is a throwback to The Dreambook of Skyler Dread. Which — yes — is still unpublished. Being by necessity a full-color book, and the Oscura Press being by dint of its present circumstances unable to justify the cost of publishing of a full-color book, this book will have to wait for a while….
Check out the Oscura Press books on the Kindle!
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Tokharian Tales
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The Oscura Press is pleased to be the first publisher to release all of its books in the Kindle format — for free! You can read each ebook on your Amazon Kindle by downloading it to your computer by clicking the “download” link, and then copying it with a USB cord onto your Kindle. It’s easy!
| Download A New You |  |
| Download Tokharian Tales |  |
| Download Necktie for a Two-Headed Tadpole |  |
| Download The Dreambook of Skyler Dread |  |
Instructions:1) Plug Kindle into your computer with a USB cord.2) In a few seconds, your Kindle screen will say it’s in USB drive mode.For Macintosh users:3) Go to your Finder, and you should see a new drive called “Kindle”. Open up the “documents” folder.
