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News Stories About Us
Long Dash Publishing has gotten a lot of publicity for such a small a business. For example, we're featured in a a story, "Helping authors get into print," in the Bergen Record, the main newspaper covering the northern New Jersey suburbs of New York. The article emphasizes how we love to work with first-time authors, and how we (unlike many self-publishing companies) do not retain future rights. Check out the story here.
Here's a recent piece mentioning us from LiveWire, a news service based at NYU. And we're featured in a recent issue of Freelance Success, a leading newsletter for independent journalists. Long Dash partner Tim Harper is quoted in the article that notes, "As traditional publishers pay smaller advances and do less marketing for all but the most promising authors, choosing self publishing instead makes financial sense for any author willing and able to create a market."
We're also in the Publishers Weekly, with James talking about how Long Dash has "done better than anyone had imagined" possible, and how we are continuing to expand and grow and try new things.
Our publicity goes back to when we were BooksByBookends, before we became Long Dash. We've been in the New York Times three times, including in an editorial page commentary on Christmas Day entitled "Memory, Workmaid and Mother of the Muses, Hits the Print Button," about the memoir by one of our favorite authors, Jim Hyland.
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The Writer magazine (sorry, we don't have a link, but look it up on Page 8 of the September 2005 issue) about us was titled, "A New Way to Self-Publish," and begins, "If you've thought about self-publishing but never took the plunge, you might want to get your feet wet" by letting us help you. The article ends by quoting partner
Tim Harper
: "There's nothing like seeing someone hold their book in their hands for the first time. We're making dreams come true."
Two other recent stories included "Mama Accomplished Cook, Unsuspecting Author," in Newsday, about a granddaughter who did a book based on her grandma's old Italian recipes, and
"Making Ends Meet: New Jersey Booksellers Promote, Partner, and Publish"
on BookWeb. We also got a nice plug (again) in the Dallas Morning News.
One of our favorite stories about us was a New York Times "Our Towns" column by Peter Applebome that called us "short-order publishing." You can access the story at
www.nytimes.com
after a free signup, or you can get in touch with us to email it to you.
Another story in the Times was in the Circuits section, which you can access at
www.nytimes.com
(again, it's a free signup). The story by Eric Taub started off:
"Hot off the presses" has taken on a newly literal meaning with the installation of the first instant book-printing machine in an American bookstore...pow! -- in as little as 17 minutes a perfect-bound paperback version of your novel, family memoir, or favorite Bulgarian desserts can be printed..."
Other stories about us have appeared in the Bergen Record, the Ridgewood News, the Woodstock Times, CBS MarketWatch, the
Dallas Morning News
web site, the industry bible Publishers Weekly (three times so far),
BookWeb.org
, the leading trade journal
Bookselling This Week
, YahooFinance, the
Hollywood Reporter
, the
Delaware Review
,
FreelancingWriting.com
and many others. We've had some interest from a couple of the big networks and some other big business and general-interest magazines and newspapers, so we expect there will be more stories as the word spreads about Long Dash.
Here's our basic news release...
For Immediate Release
Long Dash Publishing
Is there a book in you? Getting published has never been easier, faster or less expensive. Long Dash Publishing, a new self-publishing print-on-demand service based at www.longdash.com and in New York City, can print and bind a trade paperback for prices starting at $175 for the first 10 copies – and the prices go down for more copies. For most small initial orders, books can be delivered in a few weeks, and often within a few days.
"We're writers ourselves," said Tim Harper, one of the partners in Long Dash. "That's why we started the company. We aim to be the most author-friendly and author-supportive self-publishing operation in America. We work with lots of experienced authors, but we welcome first-time authors, too. We know they have lots of questions, and we try to answer them. Every book is different, and every author is different, and we try to meet all their needs."
Long Dash also allows readers to pick a title from a list of classic books – Twain, Dickens, Shakespeare, and tens of thousands more – and have the book printed on site within a day or two, and sometimes within an hour or two.
Long Dash, which formed as BooksByBookends in Ridgewood NJ in May 2004, relies on new print-on-demand technology developed by Victor Celorio, a Mexican-American inventor and print-shop entrepreneur whose company, InstaBook Corp., is based in Gainesville, Fla. Long Dash merged in September 2007 with Vox Pop Media, the bookstore, coffee shop and publishing company based in Brooklyn.
Additional services offered by Long Dash include formatting, editing, publishing consulting, copyright and ISBN registration, cover design and more. In addition, Harper said, books published through Long Dash may be offered for sale on the Internet for higher royalties than most publishers pay their authors.
Harper said the “digital bookstore” aspect of Long Dash is an especially valuable service to readers because it allows almost instant access to thousands of books that aren’t on the shelves but can be downloaded and printed in the shop. “If you want a copy of a classic that we don’t have, or you don’t want to pay for a fancy edition, we can print it for you relatively inexpensively,” Harper said. “You want your name on the cover of your personal edition of a classic? We can do that.”
For a typical self-published Long Dash book, a 5 ½
x 8 ½ -inch paperback, prices begin at $175 for the first 10 copies (more for books longer than 250 pages) and go down after that: $125 for the next 10 copies, and $85 for every 10 copies thereafter. Authors who have not formatted their books themselves can have Long Dash handle the formatting starting at $75.
Harper said Long Dash Books will appeal to:
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First-time authors who want to get their books in print.
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Professional writers re-publishing out-of-print books.
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Nonfiction authors who want their proposals to be bound like books
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Novelists who wants their manuscripts bound to show agents and editors.
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Professors and teachers who want their course material in a single volume.
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Companies and institutions that want their handbooks in book form.
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Graduate students who want their theses to look professional.
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Family historians who want a book for relatives, and for posterity.
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Journal-keepers and memoirists who want their memories preserved.
- Cooks who want to compile their recipes in their own personal book.
- Anybody who wants to publish a book for any reason.
Go to www.longdash.com
for more on...
Prices
How to submit your book
Additional Services
Sample Covers
Selling your books
List of classics we can print for you
Links to our authors
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