Ugly Duckling offers out-of-print poetry as e-books

Ugly Duckling Presse--known for its letter press, limited edition, hand-sewn, art books as much as for its perfect-bound books--has become an unlikely player in the e-books game.

The Publishing Perspectives blog reports that the Brooklyn-based non-profit is using the flash-based Issuu to make e-pub editions of chapbooks such as Hannibal Barca by Adhemar Ahmad and Non-Breaking Space by Jen Bervin:

Rolling out the online editions in April, in conjunction with a new website design, resulted in a doubling of traffic to Ugly Duckling’s site. Following the initial spike, each book now gets about 100–150 visits per month. That may not sound like a lot, but considering they were originally published in editions of 400–500, it’s safe to say that they’ll soon have more online readers than they ever did in print. These ‘out of print’ books are in many senses more accessible than when they were ‘in print’ . . .

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