Online Independent Book Publisher

From: Modemac <modemac@modemac.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack,alt.binaries.slack,alt.friday,alt.magdalen,alt.religion.subgenius
Date: Wed, Jan 29, 2003 9:08 PM

CafePress made a name for itself by allowing anyone to sell T-shirts
and mugs with their own custom logos on them. Now someone has made a
Web site that does what many frustrated authors have wanted to do:
PUBLISH THEIR BOOKS. And that's "publish" as in "hardcover" or
"paperback" (your choice). In these days where everyone has a Web
site and many kooky authors still can't get their works publish, this
Web site could indeed go far if it manages to launch a few
best-sellers:

http://www.iuniverse.com/

Here are some of the books published by these guys:

- The Alt.Cyberpunk.Chatsubo Anthology: Literary virtual reality in a
high-tech low-life hangout
- The Algebra Conspiracy: What the Educational Establishment Doesn't
Want You to Hear
- Essays in Contemporary Paganism
- Descartes Against the Skeptics - by E. M. Curley (I think this may
be the guy James Randi sued for libel based on his Usenet posts!)
- The Lexicon of Comicana - by Mort Walker, the writer/artist of
"Beetle Bailey"
- Cyber Snoop Nation: The Adventures Of Littanie Webster,
Sixteen-Year-Old Genius Private Eye On Internet Radio
- BigBro.Com

Of course, unlike CafePress this place isn't free. You have to pay
them some cash (at least $200, if I figure right) to get your book
published. Presumably that will keep out most of the cranks.

Here's the entry for "Giggling into the Pillow" by Chris Bridges, the
founder and maintainer of one of my favorite porn sites, Hoot Island
(http://www.hootisland.com/). Chris published his boook through
IUniverse, and just as they promised, it is indeed available on
Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0595254306/qid=1043890795/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/102-5002590-9584906?v=glance&s=books
--
First Online Church of "Bob"
http://www.modemac.com/

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From: ridetheory <ridetheory@notmail.com>

in article 9n0h3vorb5n94pe3e9t6crdfhq1ulu4usp@4ax.com, Modemac at
modemac@modemac.com wrote on 1/29/03 6:08 PM:

> CafePress made a name for itself by allowing anyone to sell T-shirts
> and mugs with their own custom logos on them. Now someone has made a
> Web site that does what many frustrated authors have wanted to do:
> PUBLISH THEIR BOOKS.

I liked this:

"Note: Some books may contain pages that have been reduced in resolution to
improve viewing speed."

Man, that page looks like shit, but then again, I can look at it FASTER!

iggy

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From: "Rev. Magdalen" <magdalen@subgenius.com>

"Modemac" <modemac@modemac.com> wrote in message
news:9n0h3vorb5n94pe3e9t6crdfhq1ulu4usp@4ax.com
> CafePress made a name for itself by allowing anyone to sell T-shirts
> and mugs with their own custom logos on them. Now someone has made a
> Web site that does what many frustrated authors have wanted to do:
> PUBLISH THEIR BOOKS. And that's "publish" as in "hardcover" or
> "paperback" (your choice). In these days where everyone has a Web
> site and many kooky authors still can't get their works publish, this
> Web site could indeed go far if it manages to launch a few
> best-sellers:
>
> http://www.iuniverse.com/
>

Hmmm, I know that according to my computer at least 600 people have
looked at naked pictures of me, but how many would buy a book called
"Crazy Monkey: The Rants, Preaching, and Vivid Sexual Escapades of
Reverend Mary Magdalen"??? Enough to pay back the initial cost??

You know I don't have much actual philosophy and ranting to put in there
so it would be mostly sexual escapades but I think there's some kind of
law that you have to put in socially redeeming parts.

--
They are mean because they are rejects from society.

--Bill Palmer on SubGenii

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From: nenslo <nenslo@yahooX.com>

"Rev. Magdalen" wrote:
>
>
> You know I don't have much actual philosophy and ranting to put in there
> so it would be mostly sexual escapades but I think there's some kind of
> law that you have to put in socially redeeming parts.
>

I aint sayin NUTHIN.

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From: Joe Cosby <joecosby@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com>

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 04:12:42 GMT, "Rev. Magdalen"
<magdalen@subgenius.com> wrote:

>You know I don't have much actual philosophy and ranting to put in there
>so it would be mostly sexual escapades but I think there's some kind of
>law that you have to put in socially redeeming parts.

we will just agree to disagree on what "socially redeeming parts" are.

oh this

http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com/media/subg/magwitch/index.htm

is dumb but I think it's funny because I'm an idiot.

--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com

"Actually, I ~ ;this may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it.
When I'm talking about ~ ;when I'm talking about myself, and when
he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me."

- George W Bush, Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000

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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

I am very familiar with this company. I have contracts from them for
THREE FISTED TALES OF "BOB" and HIGH WEIRDNESS BY MAIL (unchanged)
which somebody else set in motion. I got as far as getting the gruding
permission of the co-authors for reprinting the books on a
probably-no-pay unless-it-takes-off basis. Then I got sidetracked into
more immediate stuff. For a couple of years. I'm still planning to
reprint those with iUniverse if nothing else comes up.

More interesting to me though is the Stark Fist Reprint book
possibilities with them. We did several 120-page issues of The Stark
Fist back when and there's another few issues worth of unpublished and
unseen paper based art and writing.

The iUniverse catalog does in fact contain dozens of kook books, not to
mention "serious" novels and things that are almost certainly godawful
enough to be considered bulldada. It's a fun browse.

>
> Of course, unlike CafePress this place isn't free. You have to pay
> them some cash (at least $200, if I figure right) to get your book
> published. Presumably that will keep out most of the cranks.

That was not true in our case. I mean the $200 charge wasn't.

>
> Here's the entry for "Giggling into the Pillow" by Chris Bridges, the
> founder and maintainer of one of my favorite porn sites, Hoot Island
> (http://www.hootisland.com/). Chris published his boook through
> IUniverse, and just as they promised, it is indeed available on
> Amazon:
>
>
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0595254306/qid=1043890795/sr=1-3
> /ref=sr_1_3/102-5002590-9584906?v=glance&s=books
> --

Long before the Steve Jackson SubG role playing game or GURP or
whatever you call it, a guy named Rev. Chris Bridges put a lot of work
into a SubGenius RPG, but right in the middle of it we ceased to hear
from him. I wonder if this could be the same guy. If he got into
pornography, that was probably the smart move, finacially speaking.

--
4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath of Dobbs Yeti,
Resurrected (Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
P.O. Box 181417, Cleveland, OH 44118 (fax 216-320-9528)
A subsidiary of:
The SubGenius Foundation, Inc. / P.O. Box 204206, Austin, TX 78720-4206
Dobbs-Approved Authorized Commercial Outreach of The Church of the SubGenius
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PRABOB

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