The Future of [Some] Publishing

In a new essay, publishing consultant and former Soft Skull publisher Richard Nash has sketched out the design of his two new digital publishing imprints–looking at what he calls “the future of [some] publishing.”

Featured at Publishers Weekly, the proposal outlines two imprints: Red Lemonade (“a pop-lit-alt-cult operation” and charmQuark (“a sci-fi/fantasy community”). Both these imprints will encourage strong reader participation and feature a variety of published formats. Earlier this month, we interviewed Nash about digital publishing, getting a sneak peek at this new venture.

Here’s more from the article: “Each community will have a publishing imprint, which will make money from authors’ books, sold as digital downloads, conventional print and limited artisanal editions–and will offer authors all the benefits of a digital platform: faster time to market, faster accounting cycles, faster payments to authors. Each will have tiers of membership, including paid memberships that will offer exclusive access to tools and services.”

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