About Richard Eoin Nash

I ran Soft Skull Press, now an imprint of Counterpoint, from 2001 to 2007 and ran the imprint on behalf of Counterpoint until early 2009. Here's why I left. I'm now consulting on how to reach readers (details here) and developing a start-up called Cursor, a portfolio of niche social publishing communities, one of which will be called Red Lemonade.

The consulting is largely of the strategic variety, helping authors or publishers supercharge the publishing of a given title, or group of titles. Contact me for details.

Cursor, the start-up, you can also contact me for details, as the business plan is ready for inspection. Most importantly though, the plan will be what the writers and readers want it to be, since it exists to bring them together. Its two key attributes are:

One, that it is designed to be profitable in a universe where the price of digital content has fallen to zero (and if it doesn’t, well, it’ll be that much more profitable, won’t it…?), and
Two, that it is designed to offer the feedback loop that the supply-chain structure of publishing currently thwarts.

Basically, the best-selling five hundred books each year will likely be published much like Little Brown publishes James Patterson, on a TV production model, or like Scholastic did Harry Potter and Doubleday Dan Brown, on a big Hollywood blockbuster model.

The rest will be published by niche social publishing communities.

Now is time to build their infrastructure. Let me know if you’d like to help.

"The #1 Twitter User Changing the Shape of Publishing"
- Mashable.com   

"One of 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World "
- Utne Reader   

"If anyone can save the book biz it's @R_Nash http://bit.ly/dmvhp watch Richard run"
- Andrew Keen, Author of The Cult of the Amateur   

"Best speech on the future of books & publishing I've ever seen. @R_Nash is a genius. Every sentence quotable. http://bit.ly/c8a0fs"
- Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief WIRED   

"If you like massive anxiety attacks, go watch Soft Skull’s former boss Richard Nash speak at a conference as you battle a hangover."
- /Film on Richard Nash   

"Not unlike Richard Nash leaving Soft Skull, I feel like the next steps are going to be taken not by an industry that works together, but a rogue editor who breaks from the pack and goes it solo. "
- Julie Wilson, Seen Reading   

 
 
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