We've gotten a lot of publicity for such as small business. Long Dash Publishing merged with Vox Pop, Inc. in 2007 and opened the Publish Yourself store. Reforming as Vox Pop Publishing, our office continues to operate out of the Vox Pop cafe.
The Publish Yourself store was on WNBC 4 in 2008 where they called us "the great literary equalizer!" for our publishing program. Long Dash Publishing also received press from their origins in New Jersey.
Vox Pop Publishing is an award winning publisher with the Independent Publisher Award (IPPY) for Rebel Bookseller in 2005.
Here's a recent piece mentioning us from LiveWire, a news service based at NYU. And we're featured in a recent issue of Freelance Success, a leading newsletter for independent journalists. Long Dash partner Tim Harper is quoted in the article that notes, "As traditional publishers pay smaller advances and do less marketing for all but the most promising authors, choosing self publishing instead makes financial sense for any author willing and able to create a market."
We're also in the Publishers Weekly, with James talking about how Long Dash has "done better than anyone had imagined" possible, and how we are continuing to expand and grow and try new things.
Our publicity goes back to when we were BooksByBookends, before we became Long Dash. We've been in the New York Times three times, including in an editorial page commentary on Christmas Day entitled "Memory, Workmaid and Mother of the Muses, Hits the Print Button," about the memoir by one of our favorite authors, Jim Hyland.
The Writer magazine article about us was titled, "A New Way to Self-Publish," and begins, "If you've thought about self-publishing but never took the plunge, you might want to get your feet wet" by letting us help you. The article ends by quoting partner Tim Harper : "There's nothing like seeing someone hold their book in their hands for the first time. We're making dreams come true."
Two other recent stories included "Mama Accomplished Cook, Unsuspecting Author," in Newsday, about a granddaughter who did a book based on her grandma's old Italian recipes, and "Making Ends Meet: New Jersey Booksellers Promote, Partner, and Publish" on BookWeb. We also got a nice plug (again) in the Dallas Morning News.
One of our favorite stories about us was a New York Times "Our Towns" column by Peter Applebome that called us "short-order publishing." You can access the story at www.nytimes.com, or you can get in touch with us to email it to you.
Another story in the Times was in the Circuits section, which you can access at www.nytimes.com. The story by Eric Taub started off: "Hot off the presses" has taken on a newly literal meaning with the installation of the first instant book-printing machine in an American bookstore...pow! -- in as little as 17 minutes a perfect-bound paperback version of your novel, family memoir, or favorite Bulgarian desserts can be printed..."
Other stories about us have appeared in the Bergen Record, the Ridgewood News, the Woodstock Times, CBS MarketWatch, the Dallas Morning News web site, the industry bible Publishers Weekly (three times so far), BookWeb.org , the leading trade journal Bookselling This Week, YahooFinance, the Hollywood Reporter, and many others. We've had some interest from a couple of the big networks and some other big business and general-interest magazines and newspapers, so we expect there will be more stories as the word spreads.