Borders and Lulu.com have teamed up to create Border's Lifestyle,
a new service allowing anyone to design and publish their own book and
have it distributed through Borders stores, even including your own
book tour and in-store readings. Is it, according to Ben Vershbow of if:book, “bringing vanity publishing to a whole new level of fantasy role-playing,” or a real innovation in book distribution, bypassing the professional gatekeepers?
(via MetaFilter which, as always, has lots of good comments worth reading about self-publishing, print-on-demand services and the libraries' role in all of this)
Better World Books – Recently recognized by Fast Company as one of the best for-profit social enterprises of 2008,
they offer a wide selection of new and used books with free shipping in
the US and less than $3 shipping elsewhere. A portion of the profits go
to fund literacy organizations such as Room to Read and WorldFund, and their shipping is carbon-neutral. The only thing missing is the ability to import Amazon wishlists.
(via MetaFilter)
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