The Future of Publishing is … 3D Boobs?

by Richard Luck

Originally published on July 1, 2010

The press release rocketed across the wires.  Nearly instantaneously every gossip and celebrity rag from Miami to LA weighed in on the announcement. Twitter was …. well, a-twitter with the hype.  Even NPR felt compelled to comment.  Hugh Hefner, the demigod of publishing, the man who has an uncanny knack for turning hometown nobodies like [...]

Profile of Rattapallax Press

by Daniela Gioseffi

Originally published on January 5, 2002

“I determined to publish the first issue like a rock concert or major political campaign. We would become a national publication with our first issue and not wait for the gradual progression.”

Report from Ebook World 2000

by Tom Hartman

Originally published on January 1, 2001

The main question the various publishing types, journalists, would-be developers and consultants who attended Ebook World were dying to have answered was why Americans aren’t scrambling to shelve their printed (or “p”) books and embrace the books of the future?

Out-of-Print Poetry

by Anne Doolittle

Originally published on October 1, 2000

This past March Pif‘s editors discussed running an Out-of-Print Books Issue. I said, “Wait a minute. Don’t books go out-of-print for a reason? Doesn’t all of a poet’s best work end up in a volume under a title that begins with Collected, or Selected, or if they’re really good, The Complete?” I held onto these [...]

Out-of-Print: The Vanishing of a Category

by Diane Greco

Originally published on October 1, 2000

What does it mean for a book to be “out-of-print” in a universe composed less of ink on paper than of bits in motion?

Out-of-Print

by Matthew Pakula

Originally published on October 1, 2000

If you haven’t written a bestseller, it doesn’t mean you’re doomed. Matthew Pakula explores the business of keeping books in print.

Meet Richard Yates

by Elizabeth Cox

Originally published on October 1, 2000

Richard Yates (1926-1992) was known as the “great writer of the Age of Anxiety,” a man who wrote deftly about lostness. His first novel, Revolutionary Road (1961), was an instant success, a finalist for the National Book Award alongside Catch-22 and The Moviegoer, and equally deserving. A year later, Atlantic-Little, Brown published his first stories [...]

Ezines – The Advent of a Redefining Force in Literature

by CK Tower

Originally published on October 1, 1998

CK Tower, Poetry Editor for Recursive Angel, looks at the importance of ezines in breaking down the barriers between writers and publishers.

A Brief History of Pif

by Richard Luck

Originally published on October 1, 1998

The abridged version of how Pif Magazine came to be.

The End of Intelligent Publishing and the E-Promise at the Gate

by George Myers Jr.

Originally published on October 1, 1998

George Myers Jr., editor of acclaimed george jr, looks at the past, present, and future of Net publishing.