In a similar vein, RiverRun Bookstore, Portsmouth, N.H., has launched Piscataqua Press, which the Union Leader called "a safe, reliable local option in the growing world of digital publishing," one that fulfills RiverRun co-owner Tom Holbrook's dream of printing books.
RiverRun is not using an in-house machine like the Espresso but using POD to offer a publishing package for $1,500 that includes "one-on-one customer service"; ISBN, bar codes, Library of Congress and copyright registration; an e-book version; distribution; an event at RiverRun; 10 copies of the book; and regular royalties.
Piscataqua will not edit material but requires it to be professionally edited. "We want to help people get their books published," Holbrooke told the paper. "We are not trying to be the arbiters of taste. But we don't want books that are badly typed up and riddled with errors because it reflects badly on us."
