SPECIAL OFFER: NSA Member Pricing for this Friday’s all-day Tech Event at the PPA Extended to all CIPA members

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…

Ebooks: Douglas County Library Update

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…

Sept Meeting: How to be an Effective Digital Publisher

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 Signs eBook Pilot Project Agreement with Douglas County Libraries

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,…