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(4 votes)     Rate it!  |  Report it! KABlog http://kenarnold.wordpress.com/ A blog for publisher Ken Arnold and his authors, offering (sometimes humorous) perspectives on social, cultural, political, and religious issues. Category: Blog Directory » Personal Blogs » People And Society Hits: 5 Date added: 2008-04-24 22:45:29 Alexa traffic rank: 19,542,566

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The End of More Book Review Sections?
An article in today’s PW suggests that more newspaper book review sections may face extinction. The redesign of the Tribune Co., according to PW, may threaten coverage: “Amid the pending real estate sale and newsroom cutbacks, rumors have surfaced about book sections being cut at... Read more...
Published 1 week ago

Publishing Out of the Box
Ok, I’ve been running this new publishing company for about six months now, and we’ve issued five books going on six, with four in the oven. We are printing on demand, as anyone reading these posts knows, and we’re getting ready to make our content available on various digital... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

POD Is Ok for Big Publishers, It Appears
PublicAffairs, publisher of Scott McClellan’s fast-selling memoir, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception, has had to use POD (Print on Demand) technology to fill a several-thousand copy gap in supply. Read a quick summary here from PW. Now I... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago

Ecological Mirage
Following the Lambda Literary Foundation awards ceremony in Los Angeles last week, Connie and I went to Rancho Mirage in the California desert. The area is generally referred to as Palm Springs, but there are eight “towns” in the region. Rancho Mirage is one of them. Known since the... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago

The California Decision on Same Gender Relationships
It has been too long since I posted something on this blog. Too much going on. Since the California Supreme Court handed down its decision in support of same-gender relationships, I have wanted to say something about it–and about the publishing I do through KenArnoldBooks. The decision... Read more...
Published 1 month ago

The Dark Days Aren’t Coming, They’re Here, by Darren Laws
Darren Laws is the founder of Caffeine Nights Publishing, specializing in crime fiction printed on demand. He is an articulate advocate for this progressive mode of production and distribution. This article is reprinted from his blog. In a week which has seen a growing upsurge against traditional... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Censorship in Oregon!?
I did not know that a new Oregon law passed in January criminalizes activities that include passing on to minors certain forms of sexually explicit books. The statute is somewhat complicated, but you can read about it here, on the ACLU of Oregon website. The tricky part is that some books for... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Bush to Pope: Awesome Speech!
Ever wonder what one dignitary says to another in those brief moments before or after a speech or photo op? Well, here’s an example. After Pope Benedict speaks to the American people, following his arrival in Washington (to cheers and screams, no less), Bush can be heard to say:... Read more...
Published 3 months ago

Will We Choose Life?, by David W. Orr
David W. Orr, the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies at Oberlin College, wrote this “Foreword” to Grounded in Love: Ecology, Faith, and Action, by Nancy Roth, to be published by KenArnoldBooks. It will be available from Amazon.com by the end of May. Professor... Read more...
Published 3 months ago

The POD People Are Coming! Shoot them!, by Ken Arnold
When I stared KenArnoldBooks earlier this year, I chose to print digitally–or, to use the vernacular, print on demand. As a publisher of many years, I thought it just made sense to print books as they are needed and to sell them through Amazon and stores that really wanted to carry them. My... Read more...
Published 3 months ago