The Concord Free Press is a publisher who gives their books away for free. The authors donate the work for the limited free print run, an artist designs the cover pro-bono, and then people can get them for free. When you see one in a bookstore (mostly found in NY,NJ,MA, and other NE Patriots football places) it has a sticker that says, "100% off" on the cover and "$0.00" on the back.
The books look awesome, and they are by legit writing homies like Gregory Macguire who wrote Wicked.
Here's his book:
You can request a free book on the website--only 100 requests per day--and the only catch is that once you read the book you are supposed to donate money to something somewhere.
That's right, you get a free book and you give a little money to someone who needs it. You don't give the money to the press, although you can, you're supposed to give the money to whatever floats you. Soup kitchen? Sure! Church group that helps teach kids to play instruments? I dunno if that exists, but that will work. Sister who can't pay for her car repair this month? Why wouldn't that be okay?! The book should remind you to be a better you, and then you should pass it on and have someone else do the same thing.
The press makes money from the sale of the books that were featured in past giveaways, like Greg's, and also from website donations. I just think this is so bad ass it hurts. Now, I just have to get published and get a big enough following that they'll print one of my books for free! It's a better goal than my old one, which was to make enough money to buy a big TV and keep my wife from making me get a real people job.
Also, I found this picture today and it is awesome!
Very interesting. I liked this...
ReplyDeleteThanks! I liked it too, and I'm interested in it!
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