Literature by download is becoming a new venue for small presses, often pitched at the traveling public. Wild Shore Press is releasing an entire series of serials and shorter works for this market.
February 4, 2007 (Press Release) --
Responding to new social and technological trends, Wild Shore Press today announced a new download literature series aimed at the traveler. The small publisher, a producer primarily of fantasy, science fiction, and alternative literature, released a number of new works including shorter novels and serials available inexpensively for download from the web.
"The new releases were driven by a combination of factors." said Marissa Lloyd, the publisher's chief spokeswoman and associate editor, "In an increasingly mobile society, and with the trend toward larger and longer works, book loving business travelers are finding themselves dragging bookbags that weigh like boat anchors with them, just to have something to read. With the pervasiveness of laptops, pda's, and smart cell phones, along with easy availability of wireless links to the web, downloadable new literature seemed a natural solution. Most travelers have to carry their laptops with them anyway. Also, the new 1000 page blockbuster may be great, but it's hard to read it uninterrupted during a two hour layover. This allows us to offer novellas, novelettes, short stories, serials. . .literary forms that have all but disappeared from the market but that may be more suited to reading on the road."
The new technologies allow publishers to offer serialized novels, a form that has all but vanished. "Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, much of the great literature of the 1900's appeared first as serial in newspapers" said Lloyd, "each section appearing fresh as the author completed it. This gives us the chance to revive that tradition." Over the next three months, Wild Shore Press plans to release two such serials, along with a number of conventional Novels and Novellas. Works are available as either downloaded text or as more conventional paperback books.
With the lack of shipping and production expense, downloaded books are also quite a bit less expensive than conventional novels. Typical download fees run in the US $2.00-4.00 range, with serial and short story downloads as low as $.75.
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"The new releases were driven by a combination of factors." said Marissa Lloyd, the publisher's chief spokeswoman and associate editor, "In an increasingly mobile society, and with the trend toward larger and longer works, book loving business travelers are finding themselves dragging bookbags that weigh like boat anchors with them, just to have something to read. With the pervasiveness of laptops, pda's, and smart cell phones, along with easy availability of wireless links to the web, downloadable new literature seemed a natural solution. Most travelers have to carry their laptops with them anyway. Also, the new 1000 page blockbuster may be great, but it's hard to read it uninterrupted during a two hour layover. This allows us to offer novellas, novelettes, short stories, serials. . .literary forms that have all but disappeared from the market but that may be more suited to reading on the road."
The new technologies allow publishers to offer serialized novels, a form that has all but vanished. "Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, much of the great literature of the 1900's appeared first as serial in newspapers" said Lloyd, "each section appearing fresh as the author completed it. This gives us the chance to revive that tradition." Over the next three months, Wild Shore Press plans to release two such serials, along with a number of conventional Novels and Novellas. Works are available as either downloaded text or as more conventional paperback books.
With the lack of shipping and production expense, downloaded books are also quite a bit less expensive than conventional novels. Typical download fees run in the US $2.00-4.00 range, with serial and short story downloads as low as $.75.
Wild Shore Press can be reached at
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