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, the organization provides 90% of its earnings to their contributing authors. Co-op members each provides skills in return for the contributions needed to publish their books, which allows the group to offer the functions of traditional publishers, such as editing, formatting, typesetting, cover designing, accounting, web designing, technology support, legal consulting, and public relations. E-books are released directly through Kindle and Sony's e-reader and via the Book View Café website. In 2012 they began to sell ebooks directly to libraries, aiming to work with

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to supply books on Baker & Taylor's Axis 360 platform and to OverDrive. Book View Café offers new titles as well as

backlist A backlist is a list of older books available from a publisher. This is opposed to newly-published titles, which is sometimes known as the frontlist. Business Building a strong backlist has traditionally been considered the best method to produce ...

titles. The publisher produces books in multiple genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, romance, humor, mystery, historical, teen and young adult books, as well as memoirs.

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External links

Book View Café official website

Book View Café video channel
Publishing cooperatives Publishing companies established in 2008 Ebook suppliers Internet properties established in 2008 Artist cooperatives in the United States