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Ninja Book Box
- Feb 25, 2019
- 8 min
Indie Books Coming out in March
When we first launched Ninja Book Box a lot of people told us they'd love to read more independently published books, but they just couldn't find any that sounded good or like the kind of thing they usually read. Well, we're only at the third month of the year and there have already been so many fantastic independently published books out! We've talked about some of them in our January and February posts and now here are some more.... As always, this is just a fraction of the
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Ninja Book Box
- Feb 20, 2019
- 3 min
Organising your Books by (Indie) Publisher & Why We Think You Should!
Bookworms love to debate how to organise books, right? Over the years I've had mine A-Z by author and by title, separated into categories and all lumped in together, and even organised by colour. Right now, they're organised by publisher. Well, that's not entirely true. My big 5 published books are still A-Z by author because I had them by publisher and it was too hard to remember where books were when I wanted them. With indies, though, my books are organised by publisher, a
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Ninja Book Box
- Mar 1, 2018
- 5 min
How to Tell if It's Indie
This post is a response to several requests, and we're really happy that it ties in with the start of Indieathon! We've discovered during our book box journey that it's actually often quite hard to tell if publishers are independent or imprints of one of the big five. Read on, and we will attempt to clarify this as much as we can - full disclaimer: a lot of it is just getting familiar with indies and starting to recognise their logos on book spines! Firstly, what do we define
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Ninja Book Box
- Oct 30, 2016
- 3 min
Why Subscriptions are Important to Indies (and some to try)
Readers of this blog are presumably fans of the concept of subscription and receiving bookish surprises in the mail, so we thought we'd cater to that by providing you with some insight into the wonderful world of independent publisher subscriptions. Many independent publishers rely heavily on subscriptions to help them to actually publish books in the first place - you can think of it like backing a Kickstarter but just on an annual or recurring basis. In most cases you pay x
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Ninja Book Box
- Sep 23, 2016
- 3 min
The Man Booker Prize: An Indie History
This post was originally published back when we first started our blog in 2016. As mentioned below the trend for independently published books being included in the Booker lists continued in 2017, with five of the longlisted books published by indies. The 2017 list did feature only the bigger independent publishers though, with Faber & Faber having two books listed (4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster & Days Without End by Sebastian Barry), two for Bloomsbury (Lincoln in the Bardo by Geo
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Ninja Book Box
- Sep 23, 2016
- 2 min
What is an Independent Publisher anyway?
This post was originally published in 2016 and has since been updated. This week while I’ve been on social media talking about the book box it’s come to my attention that a number of people are unsure of what I mean when I use the words ‘independent publisher’. I guess it doesn’t help that it can be used in a number of ways to describe a number of different things – for instance independently published can and often does mean self-published, so just to clear up any confusion
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