About Antenna Books
Antenna Books is an ebook publishing company that really started in 2011. Doug Grad decided to do something he'd dreamed of for years--publishing books that he likes. Doug had spent 22 years as an editor with imprints at Simon & Schuster (Pocket Books), Random House (Ballantine), Penguin (New American Library) and HarperCollins (ReganBooks). He also runs the Doug Grad Literary Agency.
With publishing going through its greatest technological upheaval since some dude named Gutenberg (not Paul Gutenberg, who played trombone in the high school band with Doug--the other Gutenberg) invented movable type, Doug thought--"Hey!" Really, that was all that came to mind..."Hey!" Oh well. Seriously (and he'll try to cut that out), he thought that now would be a good time to publish books that were falling through the cracks at the big print publishers--new voices in fiction and nonfiction, as well as old voices too, including books that had gone out of print but still deserved to be read. Or books that were still in print but had never appeared in an ebook edition.
So fire up your Kindle, Nook or iPad, or even your smart phone or other lesser-known off-brand el-cheapo e-reader, and download an Antenna Books. Unlike with the big publishers, we can guarantee that we've actually read the books we publish, and we're publishing them because we want to, not because we have to. We may not get rich doing this, but maybe it'll pay for the repairs on the old family car.
Happy reading,
Doug (and yes, it's weird to write about yourself in the third person)
With publishing going through its greatest technological upheaval since some dude named Gutenberg (not Paul Gutenberg, who played trombone in the high school band with Doug--the other Gutenberg) invented movable type, Doug thought--"Hey!" Really, that was all that came to mind..."Hey!" Oh well. Seriously (and he'll try to cut that out), he thought that now would be a good time to publish books that were falling through the cracks at the big print publishers--new voices in fiction and nonfiction, as well as old voices too, including books that had gone out of print but still deserved to be read. Or books that were still in print but had never appeared in an ebook edition.
So fire up your Kindle, Nook or iPad, or even your smart phone or other lesser-known off-brand el-cheapo e-reader, and download an Antenna Books. Unlike with the big publishers, we can guarantee that we've actually read the books we publish, and we're publishing them because we want to, not because we have to. We may not get rich doing this, but maybe it'll pay for the repairs on the old family car.
Happy reading,
Doug (and yes, it's weird to write about yourself in the third person)
