The basics haven’t changed that much at the publisher’s end. They have changed drastically at the bookselling end, the proverbial tail that wags the dog. The dog is the Publisher, or the Author, depending on your point of view.

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Here’s an author who is keenly aware of her own community of booksellers, future writers, and readers.

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An initiative in the works from the nonprofit Internet Archive to centralize the electronic distribution of commercially viable books could upend the publishing industry and declaw Amazon.com

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…the program we present at HBMF is a kind of living anthology, and this thought led naturally to conceiving our program as a continual update of the Hawaiian Renaissance. In other words, our program would be dedicated to presenting the best of classic Hawaiian culture along with the best and most thriving Hawaiian culture today.

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2009 RELEASES BOARD BOOKS Animals Sing Aloha by Vera Arita; illustrated by Ron Louie This ground-breaking book is specifically designed to begin introducing young children to phonics through a vibrantly illustrated text that can be read or sung to an original musical score by the author, Vera Arita. [...]
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