Tag Archive for the term: publishing

In recent days a wash of indie found it’s way to me:
Gotham Jungle helped unpack the question, Major vs Indie Labels, what is right for you?:
One of the biggest and perhaps most distinguishing differences between indie and major labels is that indie labels let artists keep the rights to their work. Large labels have [...]

Well, Georgia is headed for a run off election in the US with neither side reaching over the 50% line. While McCain may be travelling around spinning his half truths and blatant dizzying distortions a little while longer, stomping on (stumping against) the better side of his character whenever publicly possible, the Democrats are [...]

Expozine, Montreal’s annual small press, comic and zine fair, will take place on Saturday, November 29 and Sunday, November 30, 2008, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. at 5035 St-Dominique (Église Saint-Enfant Jésus, between St-Joseph and Laurier, near Laurier Métro). Free admission.
This incredible event brings together over 250 creators of all kinds of printed matter [...]

WORN FASHION JOURNAL is looking for reinforcements!

We need to fill the following positions:

* Circulation Manager
* Art Director
* Interns
* Advertising Salesperson
* Crime-fighting Ninja
* Public Relations/Promotions
(All positions part-time - hours negotiable)
Worn is a [...]

Black Heart Magazine’s LOLITA ISSUE is currently available for purchase! Only available online, as a downloadable PDF, the Lolita Issue features the dirtiest minds in literature on the topic of forbidden love. Check out our red heart-shaped sunglasses and hot words from AV Flox, Chris Reed, Will Dawson, Don Bapst, Heidi Kentwood, Ann Ward and [...]

I’m studying social anthropology and my dissertation is basically investigating whether there’s any sort of notional global ‘indie community.’
(…)
So yeah, what does the term ‘indie’ or the notion of independent music mean to you?
I discovered this call for help on Drowned in Sound, an indie music site out of the UK. I enjoyed an hour [...]

A Kurdish publisher claims to have taken a major step towards a new degree of freedom of the press for Kurdistan in releasing Ghazalnus and the Gardens of Imagination and paying the author. Should give you pause if you’re out there trumpeting simplistic ideologies of indie like “never signing with any publisher or label” [...]

With the radical growth of music file sharing in North America from 1999, especially in the under-30 age demographic, many who earn their livelihood in the music industry are of the opinion that this is in some way related to industry practices… that the industry had sown the seeds of its own demise through the [...]

Hi folks! The peeps over at Lickety Split are pleased to announce this launch in the spirit of indie publishing solidarity:
MUSICIANS ARE COWARDS:
Launch of Four Minutes to Midnight Issue 9
Saturday, January 26th @ Lab.Synthese, 435 Beaubien Ouest, loft 200
with PARLOVR, Flames! and American Devices + all night art happening!
9pm, $5 ($12 with a copy of [...]

Really, this isn’t a review. I thought I’d write one about this book I got at Expozine but then I went to the Doris page on the Microcosm website and was heaped with passionate thoughts and words from dozens of other reviewers and now I sort of feel speechless. But actually, that’s what I was [...]