The Digital Publishing Revolution Is in the Rearview Mirror
Richard Nash is an independent publishing entrepreneur. Founder of Cursor and publisher of Red Lemonade, he is now vice president of Content and Community for the LA-based cultural discovery start-up Small Demons. For most of the past decade, he ran the iconic indie Soft Skull Press, for which he was awarded the Association of American Publishers' Miriam Bass Award for Creativity in Independent Publishing in 2005. Books he edited and published landed on best-seller lists from the Boston Globe to the Singapore Straits-Times and twice on the cover of The New York Times Book Review, among others. The last book he edited for Soft Skull, Lydia Millet's "Love in Infant Monkeys," was selected as a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist. Last year the Utne Reader named him one of "50 Visionaries Changing Your World," and Mashable.com picked him as the "#1 Twitter User Changing the Shape of Publishing."