2Leaf Press’s books are now available on Scribd, an ebook subscription service, joining the ranks of over 1,000 publishers, which include HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Harlequin, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Macmillan, Bloomsbury, Workman, Lonely Planet, Perseus Book Group and Wiley. Readers can either purchase books outright, or sign up and pay a monthly fee to access […]
2Leaf Press is pleased to announce the release of its eBooks (yeah!). Yes, it has been a long-time coming but we’ve finally arrived. All of our books (with the exception of RIVERS OF WOMEN and PUERTO RICAN FOLKTALES, which are available in print), have been converted to eBooks, and are available for sale at Amazon-Kindle, […]
2Leaf Press is ecstatic that we have finally gotten all of our print editions available for sale as eBooks. It’s been a long road, but we hope our readers will reap the benefits of our beautifully formatted eBooks! Having said that, I thought it was important to discuss the issue of converting our poetry books to […]
Tim Parks | THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS Let’s reread Nabokov on rereading. On first approach to a novel, Nabokov claimed, we are overwhelmed with too much information and fatigued by the effort of scanning the lines. Only later, on successive encounters with the text, will we begin to see and appreciate it as […]
All across Argentina’s capital, lodged between the steakhouses, ice cream shops and pizzerias, is an abundance of something that is becoming scarce in many nations: bookstores. From hole-in-the-wall joints with used copies of works by Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel de Cervantes and Gabriel Garcia Marquez to elegant buildings with the latest children’s books in several […]
The IAAS has made a deal with YBP Library Services to distribute 2Leaf Press print books to academic libraries in the US and abroad. Founded in 1971 as Yankee Book Peddler, for more than 40 years, YBP’s guiding and unwavering principles have been to build close relationships with academic libraries and consortia while providing the […]
Writer says move is re-invention of ‘Spider-Man for kids of colour, for adults of colour and everybody else. There’s been a female Thor and a black Captain America, and now an even bigger star of the comic-book universe is set to embrace diversity as mixed-race teenager Miles Morales prepares to don the mask of Spider-Man. […]
Black Poets Speak Out are videos from African American poets creating a conversation about police brutality against people of color.
Amanda Nelson of BOOKRIOT challenges the status quo by not only asking, but delves into why we must write and read DIVERSELY.
Author Vanessa Mártir explores the importance of diverse writers of color in the publishing industry and why their voice matters.
If 81 percent of the U.S. population wants to write a book, why do only two percent accomplish that goal? Find out in this interesting article by Nina Amir from THE BOOK DESIGNER.
ALAN RINZLER | THE BOOK DEAL | DECEMBER 2014 THE TIRED OLD STEREOTYPE of a mystery writer as some hard-boiled noir guy with a cigarette in one hand and a tumbler full of whiskey in the other is obsolete. Over. Done. Make way for Sisters in Crime, a nationwide organization of women mystery writers who […]
KATHY MIZERA | BOOKSHOP BLOG | DECEMBER 2014 As the holiday shopping season swings into full force, it’s interesting to watch people buying books. Many a wish list has everything from the latest by Stephen King to an Amazon Gift Card (an actual card or via email) to a new e-reader device. Yet the battle […]
Benjamin Denckla discusses the quality of “low-cost ebook conversions” and the demand from consumers to upgrade ebooks to a higher quality.
JOE WIKERT’S DIGITAL CONTENT STRATEGIES | DECEMBER 2014 I was at an event last week where an attendee described the following scenario: She discovered an author on the Oyster unlimited ebook subscription service, she read one of their books and then realized the author’s other books aren’t included in Oyster. She was then forced to […]
The Library of America, a non-profit publisher has decided that Elmore Leonard deserves to sit on the shelf beside Herman Melville, Flannery O’Connor, Mark Twain and the rest.
he Writers’ Trust of Canada announced the finalists for two major prizes for excellence in Canadian fiction: the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Writers’ Trust/McClelland and Stewart Journey Prize.
Not4Prophet, 2Leaf Press‘ prolific and political poet, celebrated the publication of his first poetry book, Last of the Po’Ricanas y Otros Afro-Artifacts at La Casa Azul Bookstore on 103rd Street off of Lexington Avenue on December 18, 2013. After being introduced by the owner of La Casa Azul, Aurora Anaya Cerda, Carmen Pietri, 2Leaf Press‘ […]