Thanks for the shout out, my friend, and we're glad to be a part of something that needed saying in the publishing industry. We got dicked around by another member of the Big Six (for almost a year), with the promises of a fairly lucrative contract for a unique program that would have revolutionized digital sales... but then they scrapped this program in favor of the conservative, milquetoast book selling that's already been killing them for years. They took 6 months to tell us this, in a 2 sentence e-mail that might as well have just said "fuck off."

We fully support your efforts, and we'll be following your progress closely. We'll also be looking for that e-book of yours over at theoneweekbook.com.

Cheers,
-B&B

"Authority + conformity = silence." - that's a terribly true formula... Reminds me of Russia's current policital situation.

The only way to go is with the Rebel Alliance!!!!

Here's the thing: Everybody who's gone it alone when self-publishing was still the kiss of death--when everyone told you you had to self-publish because you write shit, but you self-published anyway... They led the rebellion. The rebellion is not new. The fact that Sebastian's willing to take one to the knee IS new, however.

Shit, I started my own publishing company and I ended up with a sideline of formatting ebooks before there were really any players in the game. My titles aren't bestsellers, but some of them actually end up in college classes.

I've been at this for a while, and I'm still a relative newcomer. Talk to Dan Poynter, April Hamilton, Warren Adler, Aaron Shepard, Morris Rosenthal. Those are the shoulders I stand on. The fact is, we're too busy doing our own shit now to worry about the big guys. Authors will forever NEED their work to be validated by someone else, and as long as there are more of those kinds of authors than ones who say "fuck it," and do their own thing, traditional publishing will exist.

So this part--the part where somebody's willing to brave the paper blizzard--this part's new. And I've got popcorn...

GSV53 planned anytime soon? =/