[Bridging_the_digital_divide] a publishing company for hip hop?

[Jason Barkeloo]

Question for the list - is this a good thing?

Triple Crown Publishing is a company may have stumbled onto something.  
They are selling books to a population that seems to have forsaken 
books.

They have sold 300K books in a little over a year with 14 titles.

http://www.triplecrownpublications.com/index.shtml

The founder (African American female) did 5 years in a Federal 
Penitentiary from a drug dealing conviction.  Not only does she seem to 
have been rehabilitated, she seems to have taken her business sense to 
a new level.  That she is selling books is, by itself great.  That they 
are being sold to kids who ordinarily don't read books seems to be good 
too.  Of course the debate will be about the content of the books.

There is an article in Newsweek about her:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5145832/site/newsweek/

Their office is in Columbus, OH.

Best Regards,
jb


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Jason Barkeloo
President
TouchSmart Publishing
http://www.touchsmart.net
tele 513.225.8765


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