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Grex Books Item 20: The Publishers' Item
Entered by danr on Fri Jul 8 01:26:24 UTC 1994:

Yesterday, I sent out a letter to all the book publishers listed in the
Yellow Pages, inviting them to join Grex and especially to join the
books conference.  I am hoping that many of them will join us here.

This is the item for book publishers to tell us about their wares.

4 responses total.

#1 of 4 by danr on Fri Jul 8 01:31:37 1994:

My sister and I own and operate R-Squared Press. We recently published
our first book, _A Birthmother's Book of Memories_.  This book is a
fill-in-the-blanks book that helps birthmothers in open adoptions tell
their children about the birthmother and their birthfamily.  It's a
hardcover book, with an attractive four-color cover and costs $16.

We also offer a companion product, The Adoptee's Family Tree.  This
full-color 16x24-in. poster has spaces for the adoptee, the
birthfamily, and the adoptive family.

Projects in the works include _The Romanchik Family Slovak Cookbook_
and Dan's Guides to Ann Arbor.

#2 of 4 by raven on Sun Jul 17 04:47:25 1994:

        I have self published two books of my own poetry on my "Digital
        Detritus"
lable.  Dan I have seen your posting on the small publishers e-mail list.

#3 of 4 by kentn on Tue Oct 4 23:55:33 1994:

danr, how is the book publishing business going?  Any new offerings?
(Had you considered publishing other authors' works?)

#4 of 4 by danr on Sun Feb 12 01:47:53 1995:

As you all can tell from the length of time between responses, I
haven't been a real active participant in this conference. :)

Like any business, I'm finding out that publishing takes a lot of time.
I think part of the reason that things have not gone as quickly as I
would have liked is that I don't have enough time to devote to the
business.

It also takes more money than I thought.  Another reason I think we
haven't been more successful is that we haven't spent much on adver-
tising and other types of promotion.

We're still plugging away at it, though. In fact, we're just now
getting ready to publish our second and third titles.  These are also
books related in one way or another to adoption.

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