COLORADO INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION
Heather Lutze & Heather Gilmore have graciously offered to extend the NSA discount to CIPA members for this Friday’s I Heart Tech NSA CO Event! The CIPA code for member pricing is: CIPA$ When this code is entered on the payment page, and APPLY is clicked, the rate will adjust to $99 for one person, or $149…
Common Acronyms Used in Publishing, Printing, Design and Graphics By Karen Saunders Are you stumped by new acronyms that have suddenly popped up and become part of the current lexicon in the publishing, marketing or advertising arenas? I’ve notice new acronyms are born whenever there is a new leap in technology, such as the emerging…
News alert: The Douglas County Library is back in the news. After signing an agreement this year with CIPA to acquire members’ books in epub format, director Jamie LaRue has gone on to sign more alliances with other publishers, including the Independent Publishers Group, Marshall Cavendish Corporation, Gale Cengage Learning, Lerner Publishing Group and ARDO…
CIPA committed the 2011-2012 year to building a resource system based on three components: monthly meetings followed by a more casual and intimate Focus Forum, and then supported by online class content that can be accessed at a member’s discretion. Our first Focus Forum proved to be a great success with 18 in attendance, made…
CIPA Associate Member, Mandi Pralle, is offering a how-to class on learning to create eBooks using InDesign. This one night “InDesign to ePub class*” will be offered on Wednesday, September 21th from 5:30 – 9:30 p.m. What we will cover in our 1-night class: Supported ePub devices; How to design for ePub; Formatting with Styles; Using…
CIPA September Meeting: September 17, 2011, 8:30 am New Location! Lone Tree Arts Center* Amanda Hocking sold 450,000 books in one month—99% of them were eBooks. John Locke, Joe Konrath, Vincent Zandri—the list is growing quickly of authors who have side-stepped the traditional avenue of publishing altogether. They’re digital publishers. They sell their books at ridiculously low prices…
CIPA Associate Member, Mandi Pralle, is offering a how-to class on learning to create eBooks using InDesign. This one night “InDesign to ePub class*” will be offered on Wednesday, August 17th from 5:30 – 9:30 p.m. What we will cover in our 1-night class: Supported ePub devices; How to design for ePub; Formatting with Styles; Using…
The Library eBook Partnership between the Colorado Independent Publishers Association (CIPA) and the Douglas County Libraries (DCL) in Colorado reached a milestone this week—the first round of ebooks have been checked out by library patrons and checks are going in the mail to independently published authors who sold their ebooks to the library! “This may…
by Dan Miller, incoming CIPA president This is a quick update on the CIPA/Douglas County Libraries e-Book Partnership. The first group of CIPA EVVY award-winning books are now available for loan through the library’s check-out system. And I have been contacted by the largest library system in the country to explore a similar partnership. MAKE…
The Colorado Independent Publishers Association (CIPA) and the Douglas County Libraries have signed an historic agreement to help put high quality independently published books into the library district’s eBook loan program. This new partnership underscores the changing nature of book publishing and distribution with the ever-increasing popularity of eBooks. According to Nancy Libbey Mills, CIPA’s President,…