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After Almond’s well-received reading, several customers queued up to print copies of their book and get them signed by the author, whose joked that his goal for his evening was “to outsell Sarah Palin...
Sarah Palin jokes and witticisms abounded at the international debut of Steve Almond’s “This Won’t Take But a Minute, Honey” as the local author gave a reading of his new, self-published book at the Harvard Book Store to an audience of over 50 people...
...book comprises 30 300-500 word “short short” stories and 30 brief essays on the psychology and practice of writing. It was offered with three different covers to be printed using the Harvard Book Store’s 2-month-old “Paige M. Gutenborg,” an Espresso Book Machine that prints books on demand...
...machine, which can print a fully-bound book in five to ten minutes, allows authors to produce their work independently and according to Almond, has the potential to give authors total control over the content of a book. It also allows artist to artist interaction in the cover design process...
...Almond, the book launch marked a significant departure from the traditional top-down method of printing using big-name publishers. Almond described this alternative process as “conducive to allowing a book to become an artifact that commemorates the communal experience, rather than a commodity...