If you read your copy of “The Portland Bottom Line” carefully, you’ve noticed the publisher’s name: GoodBookery. The venture that’s growing out of “The Portland Bottom Line” will be launching in July this year. Indeed, 2011 is the Year of GoodBookery! What’s a splash page for now–do sign up for updates–will grow into an epicenter of collaborative publishing. Stay tuned, many exciting weeks and months lie ahead.
What a year it’s been for “The Portland Bottom Line”! For one, the inaugural volume came to being. And the book gave rise to the new venture GoodBookery, which will be launching next year. As will “The Portland Bottom Line Vol. 2″…
May the upcoming holidays bring you joy and merriment. May 2011 be exciting, successful, and enjoyable for you, your family, and your business. May these words from an Irish blessing I only recently discovered carry you through the year:
May the road rise to meet you. / May the wind be always at your back. / May the sun shine warm upon your face. / And rains fall soft upon your fields…
All the best,
Peter Korchnak
P.S.: Though it may be too late to arrive as a present before this weekend, “The Portland Bottom Line” (which is, of course, timeless), is 15% off thru December 31st on Lulu.
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I’m proud to announce a new collaboration for “The Portland Bottom Line”:
In partnership with Eco-Libris, one tree will be planted for every print copy purchased after November 10th.
Printing each copy on demand, i.e. printing only copies that get sold, means no waste is generated in the book’s production. The Eco-Libris tree-planting program represents an excellent way to offset the renewable resources used to produce the copies that do get printed. Now not only does each copy of “The Portland Bottom Line” benefit Mercy Corps Northwest, it benefits the planet as well. In other words, buy “The Portland Bottom Line”, plant a tree!
Founded in 2007, Eco-Libris is a green company working to green up the book industry by promoting the adoption of green practices in the industry, balancing out books by planting trees, and supporting green books. To achieve these goals Eco-Libris is working with book readers, publishers, authors, bookstores, and others in the book industry worldwide. So far Eco-Libris has balanced out more than 150,000 books, resulting in more than 165,000 new trees planted with its planting partners in developing countries. To learn more visit www.ecolibris.net.
Says Raz Godelnik, co-founder and CEO of Eco-Libris:
“For those who still see sustainability as altruistic endeavor, or believe it’s added value to businesses is marginal, ’The Portland Bottom Line’ gives some great lessons of the real nature of sustainability — a fundamental business asset. The stories in the book provide a window not just to the current scene in Portland, but also to the future of local business in America and worldwide. With this book and its inspirational stories this future looks much more closer. We are happy to collaborate with this project and plant a tree for every printed copy of the book. For us, this collaboration is a natural part of the vision the book is trying to promote.”
I plan for the partnership with Eco-Libris to be a long-term one, so you can expect to see the Eco-Libris label included on the cover of Volume 2, out in November 2011. (Due to the vagaries of the publishing process, it’s impossible to do that on the cover of Volume 1 without jumping through hoops and incurring revision costs.)
Further reading: Check out my June interview with Raz about crowdsourced books and Raz’s interview with me about “The Portland Bottom Line” on the Eco-Libris blog.
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In partnership with Eco-Libris, one tree will be planted for every print copy purchased after November 10th. Now not only does each copy of "The Portland Bottom Line" benefit Mercy Corps Northwest, it benefits the planet as well.
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