Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Newsflash: Feeling of Power



I didn't think I'd do it this soon, but yesterday I published my first book on kindle!
We are talking here about my book Keter Malchut that I've published in Hebrew in 2007.
It contains five science fiction and fantasy stories in an Israeli setting.
This book is my first effort in publishing, so there are many things that I'd do differently today, but hey it's only 2.99$!
Mainly I wanted to see how this whole 'Publishing to kindle, and selling electrons to (potentially) the entire world' works.
I guess I will find out pretty soon.
Here is the link to the Kindle book.
Here is the link to my Author page.
I also made a Createspace Print on Demand book today - Wow, busy day!
Feel free to share this information, of course!


Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Newsflash: Winning the Amichai Prize




Sometime in 2008 my friend Pavel from Ashan Hazman (Note, link in Hebrew, it's a really cool bookshop + Pub + Bar + Rock concert place in Beer Sheva), told me that the poet Mois Benarroch was trying for years to publish a poetry book, but no publisher wanted to take it.
I said I'd be glad to do it. I like the guy's poetry, and I thought that it was turned down by other publishers for spurious reasons.
Like anything else in publishing, it took a longer time than we thought, and it ended up costing more money (though compared to the two books I published just before that, it was relatively cheap).
We ended up publishing it in late 2010, the cover designed by yours truly (I did not do the painting, and I think the cover design is pretty awful...)
We never sold too many copies, but never mind, the guy deserved to be published.
Then earlier this week it was announced officially that the book won the Yehuda Amichai prize for poetry in 2012. I was ecstatic. this one will go down in history. Though I have to wander if that also means it's going to sell better...

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Why I Decided to Focus On Ebooks From Now On

As you can see from the previous post, I have printed two books on April 2009.
These books had significantly larger printings than my previous two books.
I printed 700 copies for the first book (200 that I more or less sold, and then 500, that I more or less didn't). And 200 for the second one (starting to run out of copies just about now, four years later).
The third and fourth books were different:

  • They were not Science Fiction or Fantasy.
  • I had a wholesale guy who was willing to work with me on them, which meant they would be sold at the stores (they still are, the first two books are still not at the stores).
  • They were going to be PRed (now I know this does not mean much, but back then...)
So I thought I had all the reasons to be optimistic
... and printed 2,000 copies of each.

I got tons of PR. People said the books were good all over the papers, National TV, and National Radio.
So far, two and a half years later, I sold something like 200 copies of each.

About a year ago I got a phone call from my wholesaler, who is a REALLY nice guy. He  said something along the lines of: "we are moving to a smaller warehouse, and I've got thousands of your books here. Do you want to take them, or shall we destroy them?"
I'm just a regular guy living in a not very large apartment, so I said: "looks like I have no choice. Destroy them."
So never mind the monetary loss (something like 20K$), but how can I possibly justify such damage to the environment?

So when I found the Mendele website (Warning: the site contains mainly Hebrew characters), a few months later, I was delighted. I started selling my books as Ebooks there, and so far I've sold only a few, but I'm happy as punch!


Tuesday, November 22, 2011

The Books We Have in Print

OK.
Starting to make this orderly, just about now.
Here is a list of the six print books we have published in Hebrew so far.
In the next few posts I will talk about Ebooks, and why we are mostly going to go with only Ebooks from now on.
Maybe at some future point in time, I will have more to say about the publication process of the print books, other than what I have written so far. 


So here are our print books according to publishing order:


Book Name                            Author                                Publication Date        What Kind of Book is it?


Keter Malchut                         Uri Meir (me)                      June 2007                  5 fantasy short stories.


Days Are Coming                   Ido Gendel                         October 2007             8 SF short stories.


Three Penguins in the City    Mariella Chenu Melchior      April 2009                  Illustrated Children's Book.                                             
Taliya.Date.Com                    Taliya Finkel                       April 2009                  Documentary Poetry.


Not Going Anywhere              Mois Bennaroch                  April 2010                  Poetic Anthology.


Empire                                    Shlomit Guy                       November 2010          One Year of English Football.


Sorry this came out so crooked, it's the best I could do without tables!

                            

Sunday, July 10, 2011

In all honesty

I just looked back at a couple of the last posts in this blog, and I must tell you I'm confused!
I mean when people say Resis Nehera Press, and they don't say it very often, they mean me.
But looking at this blog, even I cannot find my head or tail in it.
So...
From now on I promise to blog here fairly regularly, and the next few posts will be devoted to the books we already have in print, the ebooks we already have, our future plans, and in particular our English publishing plans.
Long story short:

  • We have so far published six Hebrew books.
  • We have so far published two of them in ebook format, and a third one should be published in the next few weeks.
  • We have some interesting plans for the near future, but nothing we can share right now.
  • We have no plans to publish anything in English till 2013 (or 2014), and our first few English books will in all probability be ebooks.

Stay tuned for more details on all of the above...


Thursday, July 23, 2009

Resis Nehara Proudly Announces

From now on we have our own Internet store.
You can order books, and they will be sent to you by mail
So far it only works in Hebrew, and only in Israel, but we expect bigger and better things in the near future...
You can see the Hebrew store on the blogs list

Monday, June 15, 2009

More new posts

So I've had a few months, I've run a few blogs, And now I decided I'm going back to writing in this blog, occasionally.
This is because I'm thinking of selling Keter Malchut, and hopefully other books in English.
I hopw this is all going to work out.
Meanwhile I think that just like in hebrew, the press blog (this blog), will not be the main blog.
Rather, I'm starting a 'Thoughts' blog.
It will not be Parallel to this blog, Or to the Hebrew "MachashavotBeerSheva"
This is all work in progress, I hope it will stabilize...

Sunday, February 15, 2009

No more new posts

Hi,
So I think it fits better, as a Hebrw publisher to have a hebrew blog:


come to visit!

Saturday, January 10, 2009

New blog

Ok. so Squidoo made me think a lot, and I decided to open a new Hebrew blo9g, and write in it much more often than here.
This is the address:

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Israeli Politics


While politics is not the subjec of this blog, I think that literature and politics were always tied.
Here is the link to my squidoo lens about Israeli politics: