Seven Days, Burlington VT Newspaper
Gutenberg Redux, Part II: Vermont Gets Another Espresso Book Machine
State of the Arts
By Kirk Kardashian [11.18.09]
Reported this week on the publishing process behind For Love of Yurts, Building an Ultra Simple Yurt Home for Under a $1000. The experience of working with the Northshire Bookstore and Debbi Wraga of Shires Press has been fantastic for me.
Kirk reported:
All of that appealed to Bruce Sargent, 66, a retired teacher from Montpelier who wrote a book about how to build a yurt for less than $1000. At first, he considered using a printer in China, but then a friend urged him to go local. He Googled “print books Vermont” and found the Northshire. “I just smiled inside,” he says, “because I know the owners of the bookstore, and their integrity is incredible.” Sargent’s book came out a few weeks ago and is available on his website, at Amazon.com and at Northshire. He’s sold about 15 copies so far (at $19.95 for the paperback; $12.95 for the electronic version), which he believes is a good start. “It’s really fun selling books in your sleep,” he notes.
Doing business with people of integrity makes doing business easy, in the sense that one is able to trust and not constantly worry and check up on the process to get things done.
Reported this week on the publishing process behind For Love of Yurts, Building an Ultra Simple Yurt Home for Under a $1000. The experience of working with the Northshire Bookstore and Debbi Wraga of Shires Press has been fantastic for me.
Kirk reported:
All of that appealed to Bruce Sargent, 66, a retired teacher from Montpelier who wrote a book about how to build a yurt for less than $1000. At first, he considered using a printer in China, but then a friend urged him to go local. He Googled “print books Vermont” and found the Northshire. “I just smiled inside,” he says, “because I know the owners of the bookstore, and their integrity is incredible.” Sargent’s book came out a few weeks ago and is available on his website, at Amazon.com and at Northshire. He’s sold about 15 copies so far (at $19.95 for the paperback; $12.95 for the electronic version), which he believes is a good start. “It’s really fun selling books in your sleep,” he notes.
Doing business with people of integrity makes doing business easy, in the sense that one is able to trust and not constantly worry and check up on the process to get things done.
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