“End of an era!“ writes a colleague from London when the news hit: https://publishingperspectives.com/2020/12/reedpop-cancels-new-yorks-bookexpo-bookcon-retiring-the-event-permanently-covid19/ “No more dinners, dancing, or fun, ever again, anywhere, any more…” “Oh, sad,” I responded. “What times we’ve had!” I remember the BEA show in Miami in 1994, the heady elation after the first day of our Internet Start-up Booth. It →
OBS imprint Protean Press is proud to announce the publication of Carl Oglesby’s Clandestine America: Conspiracies from the Nazi “Surrender” to Dallas, Watergate, and Beyond (Protean Press, 2020). Protean Press publisher Laura Fillmore is looking forward to today’s virtual book launch, hosted on Zoom by the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts and co-sponsored by →
Streaming on YouTube & FaceBook on December 7, 2020, 8pm ET Lineup includes Diana Krall, Esperanza Spalding, Kurt Elling, Danilo Pérez, Terri LyneCarrington, Grace Kelly, Catherine Russell, Kat Edmonson, John Patitucci, Jason Palmer,James Montgomery, Bo Winiker, and a special appearance by Pat Metheny, Roger Brown,Harry Connick Jr., Robin Young, and others. The continuing legacy of →
Impresario Fred Taylor lit up the Boston music scene for decades. He made one of the first recordings of Dave Brubeck, and brought to his venues — notably, the Jazz Workshop, Paul’s Mall, and Scullers — headliners such as Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Art Blakey, Weather Report, Pat Metheny, and Charles Mingus. Bob →
A surge of American writers turns pens, minds, power and time to the immediate common cause of restoring democracy to the United States – click here to learn more.
Supplementing our core business of offering publishing services, OBS also from time to time publishes books under the imprint of Protean Press. This October we bring out the posthumous publication of selected writings by Carl Oglesby, an author OBS worked with in many capacities over the years. Clandestine America is a collection of three of →
May 5, 2020 OBS posts these CDC guidelines as a public service, as Massachusetts and other states and localities consider reopening their economies while COVID-19 remains at large in our communities. CDC submitted to White House (downloaded from San Jose Mercury News) Interim Guidance for Child Care Programs The reopening of child care programs is →
Rockport, Massachusetts, March 13, 2020 – Open Book Systems, Inc. continues to monitor the COVID-19 situation closely and is taking appropriate measures to ensure the health and safety of our employees and their families, as well as continuing to offer uninterrupted service to our customers. Since Tuesday, March 10, our staff and vendors are working →
Our client aimed to supplement two successful print publications with websites that would reach a far wider audience than had access to the paper volumes. One of them was a long the trusted source for information on anthologized poems, which now serves researchers, librarians, writers of verse, students, teachers, and poetry lovers all over the globe with →
Content Imperative Our client’s content imperative involved bringing to life and making functional the interactive part of a highly successful, four-book series offering assessment, evaluation, and reporting for infants and children. OBS built and maintains for them a leading assessment and programming tool for children from birth to age six. Near-term federal reporting requirements created a →