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Introducing Writer Beware’s Small Presses Page

A brand-new page on Small Presses has been added to the Writer Beware website.

Here’s what you’ll find:

An overview of issues to consider if you’re thinking of submitting to a small press. For instance, stability can be a problem–the attrition rate among small presses is very high–as can competence. It’s easy and cheap to set yourself up as a publisher these days, and not everyone who does so has the necessary expertise.

Guest Blog Post: Copyright Is People

Recently, a consortium of university libraries called HathiTrust decided to make more than one hundred digitized books available as e-books to the universities’ communities because the books were “orphans,” works for whom the rightsholders could not be located after a diligent search.