{"id":19657,"date":"2011-05-31T09:41:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T13:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=19657"},"modified":"2011-06-01T00:24:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T04:24:48","slug":"mef-bruce-rutledges-chin-music-press-launches-innovative-booksrx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/31\/mef-bruce-rutledges-chin-music-press-launches-innovative-booksrx\/","title":{"rendered":"MEF Bruce Rutledge’s Chin Music Press launches innovative “BooksRX”"},"content":{"rendered":"

MEF Bruce Rutledge<\/a><\/strong>, founder of Seattle-based independent book publisher Chin Music Press<\/a><\/strong> and editor of Ibuki<\/a><\/strong> magazine, has launched an innovative new approach to independent book publishing:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Mail-Order Medicine For Your Mind!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Announcing BooksRX<\/a><\/strong> In 2010, small independent publisher Bellevue Literary Press<\/strong> won the Pulitzer Prize<\/strong> for fiction with Paul Harding’s Tinkers<\/em><\/strong> – the first time a small press had won the award since 1981! In 2011, the media bombards us with tales of Amazon’s digital books gobbling up demand for the printed page, and yet small presses continue to pop up all over the US and Canada.<\/p>\n

With the book business in a state of flux, we here at Chin Music Press<\/strong> believe that independent publishers are poised to carry the banner of the publishing world far into the 21st century. We are fortunate to find ourselves in a literal consortium<\/a> of visionary presses who refuse to believe the media’s Doomsday prophecies foretelling the slow demise of the printed book. In fact, we\u2019re convinced that our fellow indie publishers offer the perfect elixirs for eager readers and despairing booksellers alike.<\/p>\n

Beginning June 1, Chin Music Press will offer BooksRX<\/a><\/strong>, a quarterly curated collection of the best that North American independent publishers have to offer. We’re excited to prescribe publishers, writers and artists whom we think should be a part of any literary medicine cabinet. BooksRX ensures that you’re getting your recommended dose of vitamin READ.<\/p>\n

“BooksRX is undoubtedly the gateway drug for unsuspecting readers into the world of independent book publishing!”<\/p>\n

Dr. R. Max Sneezeworthy, Literary Division, US Department of Health and Human Services<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Available as a single dosage (one issue) or as a full regimen (annual subscription), each installment of BooksRX<\/strong> is a limited edition of 100 and arranged around a loose theme. Our first issue is inspired by our passion for finding new ways to tell stories from and about Japan.<\/p>\n