Dial Publishing is a relaunch of a publishing house I set up a few years ago to publish educational courses. It’s now being “reawakened” to serve a more general purpose as the publishing arm of Syntagma Media.

The aim is to develop our book publishing facilities for launch in the second half of the year. This will make use of new technologies in printing and distribution. Quality on-demand printing is beginning to emerge now and will become mainstream for anything but blockbuster novels by the end of this decade. We intend to make full use of the technology, where appropriate.

Electronic publishing is also struggling out of its shell at last, especially for tech and topical subjects. 37signals has just self-published its own PDF ebook and collected a whopping $33,000 of sales on the first day.

Dial Publishing is a separate business entity from Syntagma Media which operates the blog network and what’s often described as New Media.

This blog will fill in the details of our development and occasionally address the issues of book publishing in an electronic age. We will also comment on new technologies, personal publishing, and all the topics of the moment.

Information on forthcoming titles will be posted as they become available.