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Joe Biel
Verified
Host, A People's Guide to Publishing
Portland
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Personal Development , Self Improvement , Mental Illness , Mental Health
Sex
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By Joe Biel| Writers in the Storm@ by Joe Biel, Microcosm PublishingIn 2018, Microcosm fired our final distributor in favor of self-distributing. A relatively obvious advantage to us is that we would no longer need to kowtow to Amazon’s demands and market dominance. This was a business decision even more than it was a moral one. They took larger discounts with every contract renewal and so we decided to ignore them, as any adult ignores their ex who insists on continuing to behave badly in public.
By Joe Biel, Adonia Lugo, Zack Sternwalker, Jim Barnes Verified| Independent Publisher Verified Indie Groundbreaking Publisher Microcosm Publishing of Portland Punk Rock Publishing for a Marginalized Audience by Jim Barnes / March 2018 Joe Biel started Microcosm Publishing in Portland, Oregon 22 years ago as “a punk rock teenager.” Having grown up during hard times in rust-belt Cleveland, Ohio on a social security income, autistic and poorly educated, he headed west to check out the blossoming arts scene in Portland.
By Joe Biel| Writers in the Storm@ by Joe Biel, Microcosm PublishingIn 2018, Microcosm fired our final distributor in favor of self-distributing. A relatively obvious advantage to us is that we would no longer need to kowtow to Amazon’s demands and market dominance. This was a business decision even more than it was a moral one. They took larger discounts with every contract renewal and so we decided to ignore them, as any adult ignores their ex who insists on continuing to behave badly in public.
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A People's Guide to Publishing