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That’s the title of an article in Moconews:

Independent bricks-and-mortar bookstores are struggling, but indie e-bookstores may just be the next big thing. Author and former Gawker editor Emily Gould has launched Emily Books. She and “co-proprietress” Ruth Curry say it’s “a way to buy ebooks in a way that truly supports the independent bookselling culture that we love. One store currently sells a very large percentage of all ebooks, and that’s not cool.”

 

Emily Books is selling just one book so far: The $14.99 No More Nice Girls, a collection of cultural criticism essays by Ellen Willis, an activist and writer for the New Yorker and Village Voice who died in 2006. This is the first time No More Nice Girls has been available in e-book form, which led to my question: Is Emily Books also a publisher?

Gould and Curry worked with Willis’s estate to publish the e-book; the Wesleyan University Press edition of the physical book is out of print.

More in the article.

From the Emily Books site:

Emily Books subscribers automatically receive an ebook every month for a year, without doing anything at all. Your subscription includes access to exclusive events and priceless feelings of satisfaction, sophistication, and intellectual superiority. If you’re not pleased, you may cancel at any time and receive a refund for the undelivered portion of your subscription.

Choose to pay monthly for $13.99, or all at once for a discounted price of $159.99.

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