Weekly Update — August 17
New partners, new books, new videos — an exciting week for Publica!
New partnership announcement!
This week Publica announced a major new partnership with Morgan James Publishing, an American independent book publisher and distributor!
Publishers Weekly listed the publishing house as one of the fastest-growing independent publishers of 2014, 2015 and 2018.
Did you know that Publica and Morgan James have an author in common? Publica’s adviser and The New York Times #1 bestselling author Joel Comm recounts that “When I met Publica’s people for our own Bad Crypto podcast, introducing them to my publisher was a no-brainer.”
“Both companies are extremely author-centric,” said Publica’s CEO Josef Marc. “Morgan James offers the best combination of traditional bookstore salesforce and entrepreneurial business models that we could imagine. Looking deeper we learned why Fast Company’s Fast 50 list praises MJP for their rapid innovations in the last ten years. Our partnership also has something new and exciting in the works and that gives us common cause to innovate together.”
Read the full announcement here:
New books in Publica’s book store
Great news for all you book fans! We have updated our book catalog with a whole bunch of new books including science fiction, fantasy, non-fiction, children’s, self-help and motivational books, as well as books on economics and cryptocurrency!
A lot of new milestones were reached this week — we now have our first books in Spanish and Japanese languages available on Publica, as well as the book for kids written by.. a 5th grader!
Publica Updates in 60 Seconds — Episode #3
This time we are releasing our weekly video a bit later then usual. As always, our gorgeous Anastasia will guide you through the latest updates from the Publica camp.
Watch our third episode of Publica Updates in 60 seconds!
Huge thanks to all of you, Publicans, for your feedback! Don’t hesitate to tell us what you think of the videos and help us make them even better!
Book ICOs ongoing now
The Book ICO platform was launched just a couple of weeks ago and we already have first Book ICO campaigns ongoing now!
Browse these featured campaigns and support authors:
Generation One: Children of Mars by Steven R. Stewart
Abducted: Escape From Kraile (Abducted Series Book 1) by J. R. Cleveland
The Blood Princess: Episode One (The Blood Rite Saga: Season One) by Dylan Keefer
The Success Secrets of Chinese Tycoons by J. Torz
Read this tutorial to learn how to participate in a Book ICO. As always, feel free to ask Publica team if you need any help!
What’s Publica’s Game?
Publica’s CEO Josef Marc addressed several important issues in his latest blog post “What’s Publica’s Game”.
In the article, Josef breaks down by way of examples the constrictive publishing system currently in place, which glorifies exceptionally rare break-out talents and fails to support those authors, who help “fill the shelves”; who have small followings; who want to build!
Publica was crowdfunded to play a community-driven different game. What game is that?
Read Josef’s blog post here:
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