Ebooks? Electric Velocipides!
Tags: Electric Velocipede, Gemma, Wildside PressMan, that was a big night here in the USA last night. The future is looking brighter to me again now! Time for some good reading? When isn’t it?
Big news for fans of well-designed and edited zines (everyone?), we now have Electric Velocipede Subscriptions. The subscriptions are for 12 months/4 issues of Electric Velocipede in the format of your choice beginning with the current issue, the just-released no. 24. John Klima et al did a successful Kickstarter for EV earlier this year and they are supercharged and ready to entertain. And $6.50 for 4 issues is a steal!
Space and Time subscribers just received the latest issue: #116(!), which features Scott Edelman, John R. Fults, David M. Rheingold, and editor Hildy Silverman. Reminder: We’re getting into the last week of the Apex Subscription Drive. Check out the prizes!
We also have new titles from Wizards Tower and Wildside has a couple of new Christmas-themed magapacks (ack, too early!) as well as a Victorian Mystery Megapack with 25 stories (Dickens, Kipling, john Kendrick Bangs, etc.) and 2 bonus novels.
We are bees
Tags: bees in space, Fireside, Lethe Press, Wildside Press
We’ve been busy bees here at Weightless—which immediately distracted me into wondering whether anyone had ever taken any bees into space: yes! (That’s not a very exciting video, maybe there’s better one somewhere. I’ll add that to the to do list.)
Last week we added 100+ from our friends at PM Press including books by Cory Doctorow, Ursula K. Le Guin (we have big Small Beer Press news about Le Guin TK soon), Kim Stanley Robinson, as well as books of Banksy’s art, a collection of Rad Dad, and much more. Now we even have some cookbooks!
And then today we added 100+ titles from Wildside Press as well as new books from Prime (lots of John Shirley and Robots and Witches) and Lethe Press (Point of Hopes: A Novel of Astreiant by Melissa Scott & Lisa A Barnett looks interesting).
Maybe the biggest news for many of our readers is the release of the first issue of Fireside Magazine. Fireside was a Kickstarter project and as a launch-day promotion, Wired.com’s Underwire blog is running Tobias’ story, Press Enter to Execute, for free today. It’s been fascinating to see a new magazine launched with such great support and I’m going to enjoy following the story of Fireside as well as reading the mag itself.
Check out Toby’s story, come back and subscribe: it’s a steal at only $8 for 4 issues.
Bzz. Bzz.
Fireside, PM, Wildside
Tags: Fireside Press, PM Press, subscriptions, Wildside Press
Next week’s going to be a big week here: we’re going to be adding 100+ titles from the fab West Coast publisher PM Press. You might know them from their novella+ books they’ve published by Ursula K. Le Guin, Cory Doctorow, and more, but they publish tons more. Last Christmas I gave someone Pistoleros!: The Chronicles of Farquhar McHarg — how can you wrong with the real story of a Glasgow boy dropped by chance into Barcelona’s revolutionary underworld at end of the Great War—and now writing his memoirs as fast as he can because he fears he’s next on the assassin’s list? They have tons of great books on their list and we’re proud to be bringing them to you, as ever!, DRM-free.
Over the next week or two we’ll be adding something like 500(!) Wildside Press titles. A lot of them are titles that it is awesome that they are in available as ebooks. More on those as we get them online. (For publishers only: we’re now working with Ingram CoreSource, so we can now get your titles from them. Ooh!)
And: we just added a new magazine, Fireside, which will launch on April 17th.
I first heard of Fireside’s Kickstarter campaign on a blog (Genreville?) and figured it would be worth supporting and I was happy to be one of 254 backers who pledged $7,000+ to get the first issue out the door. Of course once there was one issue . . . there had to be another, so now we are also selling subscriptions (which only seem to be $8 for 4 issues, which is 50% off the issue price, just saying . . . ).
While I’ve been slowly writing this post Fireside has been outselling Irregulars. Will it be able to keep up the pace? It’s a challenge!
Anyway, it’s the weekend (well, in publishing Friday afternoon = the weekend) so I hope y’all have something good to read!