Date: March 29th 2006

OK, it's time...Soft Skull launches a subscription model...

Having been thinking about this for a while, and with the help of some prodding from AK Press and Clear Cut Press and One Story and Tin House and McSweeney's and such (both directly and by example), we've decided to launch a Soft Skull subscription. It'll be category-specific and we'll start with poetry: all the poetry Soft Skull will publish in 2006, with a couple backlist bonus tracks to spur folks into action. (As the spiel goes on the site: "A new way to buy Soft Skull books, with subscriptions to follow in Fiction, Pop Culture, Graphic Novels, and Queer Studies...")

Here's what folks will get (for $50):
Jim and Dave Defeat the Masked Man by James Cummins and Devid Lehman, illustrated by Archie Rand

Deviant Propulsion by CAConrad

Eunoia by Christian Bök

Saints of Hysteria, edited by Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton, and David Trinidad

How to Make a Life As A Poet by Gary Mex Glazner

Supermodel by David Breskin

AND, and a limited time bonus, Tremble & Shine by Todd Colby AND God Save My Queen by Daniel Nester!!!

Should you wish to order, click here: http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-00-0

Basically, we suspect this part of the future of independent publishing—in large part because we're almost certain that as eBook sales pick up in the coming years, a subscription model is by far the most plausible means of delivery. So I figure we should start getting used to it by setting something pretty basic up for the print books, forcing us to proceed slowly along the learning curve.

Also, in the interest of uncluttering folks' in-boxes, we're going to try to reduce the number of e-mails being sent out, and focus instead on the blog as a way for folks to find out about what we're up to.

Basically, once every couple of months, we'll send out an e-mail alerting you to new posting on the blog, like, for examples, free sample chapter downloads, great reviews and awards, musings on the state of publishing and the world, blah-de-blah.

But, basically, fewer e-mails.

To check it out go to www.softskull.com/news and here is a link to the blog's feed: http://www.softskull.com/news/atom.xml

And, finally, a toiny bit of quasi-gloating. We got name-checked in an Onion piece:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/46694


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