{"id":688,"date":"2012-12-31T11:28:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T10:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=688"},"modified":"2012-12-31T11:29:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T10:29:25","slug":"labourstarts-first-book-is-published-and-what-unions-can-learn-from-our-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/labourstarts-first-book-is-published-and-what-unions-can-learn-from-our-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"LabourStart&#8217;s first book is published &#8211; and what unions can learn from our experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/4104805\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-689\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-689\" style=\"margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px;\" alt=\"bookcover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/bookcover.jpg\" width=\"155\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m very pleased to announce today the publication of LabourStart&#8217;s first book &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/4104805\"><strong>Campaigning Online and Winning:\u00a0How LabourtStart&#8217;s ActNOW Campaigns Are Making Unions Stronger<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Many labour and left organizations publish books, but nearly all of them have to put up a lot of money to do so and wind up with cartons of unsold books piling up in their offices.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re doing this differently, using print-on-demand technology with no upfront costs for us at all.<\/p>\n<p>This is the lowest-cost, lowest-risk way for small, under-financed organizations to publish books and I wonder why others haven&#8217;t done so.<\/p>\n<p>I encourage you to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/4104805\">buy a copy<\/a> to see how this turns \u00a0out, to feel that it&#8217;s something you can hold in your hand, and looks quite professional, I think. \u00a0If you want to know more about how we did this, <a href=\"mailto:eric@ericlee.info\">email me<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very pleased to announce today the publication of LabourStart&#8217;s first book &#8211;\u00a0Campaigning Online and Winning:\u00a0How LabourtStart&#8217;s ActNOW Campaigns Are Making Unions Stronger. Many labour and left organizations publish books, but nearly all of them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-exclusive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}