"What prompted these thoughts is I'm officially a publisher now, having just finished distributing the graphic novel I published in Icelandic - by Brynhildur Jenný Bjarnadóttir - to stores here in Iceland. If you read Icelandic, it's available in most Penninn-Eymundsson stores and you can buy it online via the penninn.is online store. The reactions we got from advance readers were very positive. But the process of designing and producing the book and then having it printed and distributed,"
"I worked for Unbound for three years during its early days. I worked with Xander Cansell on digital production, automating ebook creation, and typesetting with CSS. Our goal was to automate a big chunk of the book production process, which would let the people running the company scale up their business. Unbound, at least for a while, wanted to be the crowdfunding platform for books, provide automated design and typesetting services for authors,"
A graphic novel in Icelandic by Brynhildur Jenný Bjarnadóttir was distributed to stores across Iceland and listed on the penninn.is online store. Advance readers reacted very positively. The design, production, printing, and distribution process prompted reflection on the societal roles of print versus the web and on an individual's role in both media. Earlier reflection arose when the British publisher Unbound entered administration. Work at Unbound included three years focused on digital production, automating ebook creation, and typesetting with CSS. The aim was to automate much of book production to enable scaling and to provide a crowdfunding and turnkey publishing system; those plans failed partly due to internal shortcomings and primarily because of chaotic management and shifting founder decisions.
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