{"id":4813,"date":"2023-12-14T15:13:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T15:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/?p=4813"},"modified":"2023-12-14T15:28:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T15:28:30","slug":"how-did-we-become-the-distributor-for-the-new-lydia-davis-book-a-peoples-guide-to-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/how-did-we-become-the-distributor-for-the-new-lydia-davis-book-a-peoples-guide-to-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"How did we become the distributor for the new Lydia Davis book? (A People&#8217;s Guide to Publishing)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Popular author Lydia Davis decided that she no longer wanted her books sold on Amazon. So she tasked her agent with finding a publisher who could do this for her. Everyone said that it was impossible. But through a unique partnership between Microcosm and Bookshop.org, we found a way. And it wasn&#8217;t even hard. This is how it turned out. Over 10,000 books sold in the first month and growing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out our interview with Sarah High <a href=\"https:\/\/www.podomatic.com\/podcasts\/joe-microcosm\/episodes\/2021-11-19T05_03_35-08_00\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.podomatic.com\/podcasts\/joe-microcosm\/episodes\/2021-11-19T05_03_35-08_00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get the&nbsp;<em>People\u2019s Guide to Publishing<\/em>&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3663\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and the workbook&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/zines\/10031\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<br>Want to stay up to date on new podcast episodes and happenings at Microcosm?&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/confirmsubscription.com\/h\/r\/0EABB2040D281C9C\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to our newsletter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular author Lydia Davis decided that she no longer wanted her books sold on Amazon. So she tasked her agent with finding a publisher who could do this for her. Everyone said that it was impossible. But through a unique partnership between Microcosm and Bookshop.org, we found a way. And it wasn&#8217;t even hard. This&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/how-did-we-become-the-distributor-for-the-new-lydia-davis-book-a-peoples-guide-to-publishing\/\" title=\"Read How did we become the distributor for the new Lydia Davis book? (A People&#8217;s Guide to Publishing)\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,12,26],"class_list":["post-4813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogifesto","tag-books","tag-business-of-publishing","tag-podcast"],"my_excerpt":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Popular author Lydia Davis decided that she no longer wanted her books sold on Amazon. So she tasked her agent with finding a publisher who could do this for her. Everyone said that it was impossible. But through a unique partnership between Microcosm and Bookshop.org, we found a way. And it wasn't even hard. This is how it turned out. Over 10,000 books sold in the first month and growing!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Check out our interview with Sarah High <a href=\"https:\/\/www.podomatic.com\/podcasts\/joe-microcosm\/episodes\/2021-11-19T05_03_35-08_00\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.podomatic.com\/podcasts\/joe-microcosm\/episodes\/2021-11-19T05_03_35-08_00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Get the&nbsp;<em>People\u2019s Guide to Publishing<\/em>&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3663\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and the workbook&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/zines\/10031\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<br>Want to stay up to date on new podcast episodes and happenings at Microcosm?&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/confirmsubscription.com\/h\/r\/0EABB2040D281C9C\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to our newsletter<\/a>!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","my_excerpt_rendered":"\n<p>Popular author Lydia Davis decided that she no longer wanted her books sold on Amazon. So she tasked her agent with finding a publisher who could do this for her. Everyone said that it was impossible. But through a unique partnership between Microcosm and Bookshop.org, we found a way. And it wasn&#8217;t even hard. This is how it turned out. Over 10,000 books sold in the first month and growing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out our interview with Sarah High <a href=\"https:\/\/www.podomatic.com\/podcasts\/joe-microcosm\/episodes\/2021-11-19T05_03_35-08_00\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.podomatic.com\/podcasts\/joe-microcosm\/episodes\/2021-11-19T05_03_35-08_00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get the&nbsp;<em>People\u2019s Guide to Publishing<\/em>&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3663\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and the workbook&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/zines\/10031\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<br>Want to stay up to date on new podcast episodes and happenings at Microcosm?&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/confirmsubscription.com\/h\/r\/0EABB2040D281C9C\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to our newsletter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4815,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions\/4815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}