e-Book Publishing
We
are publishing e-books because we see a future for this genre. The
size of the print run no longer matters.
These books are published in the spirit of shareware and garage band music.
It is not a form of publishing that will replae the hardcover book any time soon, but we see e-books developing their own niche at their own pace.
While major publishers are shutting down their e-book lines, friends are reading e-books in airports, on the SkyTrain, on subways and on buses via their PDAs. The difference is that today's reader is not stupid.
What do we mean by this? Large book publishers publish e-books and charge printed-copy prices for a digital file. The publishers are not paying a printer to print or a trucking company to ship or another bookseller to sell the book, so why the high markup? Why should the reader pay the same price for an e-book as a printed book? Makes no sense whatsoever.
This trend toward inexpensive e-books will only grow as hand-held devices become more powerful and as bandwidth serving them becomes more usable.
Small-edition publishing is not new. More than a few novels have been printed in small print runs for patrons before mass production, and ideas outside mainstream markets (i.e., not commercial or too controversial) have traditionally found alternative publishing venues. The e-book format allows ideas to be explored that don’t fit the cash-flow requirements of the large publishing houses. Some of the titles offered here were rejected by conventional publishing houses as either "too commercial" or "too literary". We also plan to publish non-mainstream formats, such as screenplays, which we see as a literary form in its own right whether the script was produced or not.
Poets have always found small-print-run publishing
liberating. There is logic
in it: the writer lays a project to rest and moves on to other writing
without waiting for the blessing of a publisher (who has his/her own problems,
his/her
own agenda).
The bibliography of George Bowering, Canada’s recent poet laureate, indicates nearly 200 titles, many published in editions as small as 200 copies. Avid Bowering collectors are hunting for unbound copies of an early book circulated among the poet’s friends in a printing of 18 copies.
Our e-books are
designed to be readable on a PDA, but not all PDAs are created equal, there
are many variations in the hardware and software.
Also, these titles are shared with the readers by Newave Books and the authors. The author receives nothing unless the reader likes the work. Readers are encouraged to share the title with a friend and send $5 to the author. Payment information appears in the publisher's page information of each book.
Who we are
John
Shinnick was born in east Texas, spent a couple years
in West Africa building schools and developing varying degrees of fluency
in five languages, attended Lamar University before emigrating to Canada.
He
lived
in Kelowna
many years and worked
at
CKOV Radio
before setting
out to freelance
and
develop
as a magazine writer. He studied writing in
the Banff writing program. He was a staff editor with Maclean Hunter
for a decade, edited Pacific Yachting Magazine and published Media
Wave Magazine, as well as a half dozen industry specific trade letters.
He currently publishes media-wave.com as
a PDF-friendly news site. His freelance writing has appeared in dozens of
magazines across the U.S. and
Canada. These days he resides in Vancouver, where he writes screenplays and
novels, while running a digital stock photo service (Stokpix.com)
and full-service book company (Newavebooks.com)
on the Internet. He teaches magazine feature writing and magazine production
in the Journalism Department at Langara College.
Bob
Wakulich was born
St. Catharines, Ontario in 1955. He attended Lakeport High School, Lakehead
University (where he received a BA in Sociology),
McMaster University (where he was a continuing student in Sociology), the
Banff Centre
of
Fine Arts (Summer Writing Workshop, 1979 & 1980), the University of
Victoria (where he received a BFA in Writing with a Film Studies Minor),
and the University
of British Columbia (where he received a MFA in Creative Writing).
His life is peopled by one beautiful and talented wife, one delightfully
snarky daughter and two self-absorbed cats. He spent several summers doling
out firewood
at Bowness Park in Calgary, and he has worked in video and film production,
but after about ten years he realized it was the kind of career he couldn't
really afford. He has been known to drink single-malt scotch, but usually
sticks with beer. His work has appeared in a number of Canadian, American,
and international journals, magazines, anthologies, ezines, and a couple
of pamphlets. He
is currently teaching college students “how to write real good”.
Our titles |
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Tess, Re: Archer A semi-illustrated novel
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A novel by Bob Wakulich. Tom, a peripatetic journalist, is troubled by a recurring dream which |
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Port Cloudy is a state of mind. Yarns ripped from an inspired life on the coast of British Columbia. |
