Publishers Weekly Article

It's been a long time in the making but we're finally in the news.  And that is news in itself, certainly worthy of our first blog post!

Gabe Habash at Publishers Weekly ran this nice introductory piece on our adventures in digital publishing this past Friday.
Now and Then Jumps into Digital Short Pool  
In early 2011, Amazon launched Kindle Singles, and among those who saw the potential of the short-form digital content model were Chandos Erwin, managing director of the digital agency Oatmeal Beach, and Ivan Dee, founder of Ivan R. Dee Inc. (now an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield) and then chief editor of Quadrangle Books. 
“We see great potential in the future of publishing e-singles,” said Dee, who left Ivan R. Dee in 2010. “The price point and length of the content lowers the threshold for convincing potential buyers to try us. For the price and time it takes to drink a Starbucks latte, a serious reader can access good writing on important subjects.”

Read the full article at Publishers Weekly.

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