Emily’s Comments (group member since Jun 11, 2012)

Emily’s comments from the Emily Books group.

Maggie wrote: "philosophical opposition to ebooks? hmm. I suppose you must convince them you can hate capitalism and love ebooks." heh. well we sure do.

Maggie wrote: "Can you get permission to do any of the semiotext(e) native agent books as ebooks? I'd like to read Shulamith Firestone's second book, Airless Spaces." Sorry to take so long to reply. We are working on this. There is some philosophical opposition to the idea of ebooks there.

Hi all,
I am email-interviewing Martha this week and wondered if anyone had questions for her? If you put them here, I'll get her to answer them.

Elanor, I just bought it.

omg MAIDENHEAD, that book is CRAZY

Aw, thanks, Patrick! It is kind of a miracle WE heard about this book. More on that soon ...

I have not read either of those. I've meant to read Wetlands for a long time ... Wetlands definitely seems like an Emily Book. Elanor, I think you will love Maidenhead by Tamara Faith Berger incidentally. It will be (fingers crossed) our September pick.

oops I just realized i should have been hitting "reply." it's like I have never internetted before or something

Ami, I couldn't get into The Listeners. I really wanted to, but it just didn't connect. I hate to be this picky person but something about that book just didn't grab me. :(

Re: How Should ... I have thought about it a lot. I like Sheila's work. That book has so much buzz and fanfare around it, though (my god! Lena Dunham tweeted about it!) and we like to think we are more champions of underdogs, rather than bandwagon-jumpers. I know this is probably a RIDICULOUS way to feel. But we only get to promote one book a month, and I'd rather give the slot to something that will be genuinely new to our readers, not something they will doubtless hear about from a lot of other people.

All that being said, I haven't made up my mind about it yet. Welcome to my totally transparent decision-making process.

Charlotte, I loved that book too! I think it is a little too not-unknown for us, but maybe people don't know about that book. It's really different from her other books.

What books would you guys recommend if we could do ANY book, not just small press books? (just curious)

Ooh interesting ... I'll get it!

We're looking for new books to feature ... always. Right now we can't sell books that are published by the "big 6" publishers because we don't offer DRM (a thin veneer of piracy protection) that meets their standards. But we hope this will change, so feel free to suggest any book. Bonus points, though, if the book is out of print or only available from an independent publisher (like Melville House, OR, Tin House, Coach House, Coffee House ... any House, basically).

This is an open thread for responses to our June pick, which will be sent to subscribers on (gulp) Wednesday! (6/13)