"So, actually, although all content is becoming connected, I believe the new social and community features we see – streaming via Twitch or uploading to YouTube for example – offer publishers an alternative engagement feature set beyond the multiplayer mode.
[C6.] Profit Seen in the Counterculture After years of being accused of selling out by their passionate, political writers and readers, many publishers of alternative weeklies are basking in the comforts of capitalism, as the sale of The Village Voice demonstrated last week.
Smashwords is looking to capitalize on this omission by offering web publishers an alternative.
Awe.sm is looking to offer publishers an alternative to these generic services, while also offering a powerful analytics engine that offers much more insight as to how their content gets distributed across the web.
A Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based startup called Okanjo, which offers publishers an alternative to native advertising with what it calls "native commerce," has raised $1.7 million in new funding in a follow-on round from local angel investors, bringing the company's total raise to date to $3.2 million.
Founded by Chris Oliveros in 1990, Drawn and Quarterly is one of the most influential publishers in alternative comics.
"Phoebe looks square in the face of extremely disturbing subject matter," says Kim Thompson, co-publisher of Fantagraphics Books, the largest publisher of alternative comics.
Jeff Mason, publisher of Alternative Comics in Gainesville, Fla., said the Perelman story got him interested, and he found the others compelling.
Founded in 1955, The Village Voice was sold in 2005 to New Times Media, a Phoenix-based publisher of alternative weeklies that later changed its name to Village Voice Media.
Mr. Howell, who has lampooned Mr. Amper, Mr. Breslin and a catalog of other public figures in a long career as a cartoonist and publisher of alternative newspapers, said the school was being thin-skinned.
