At Meeting this morning, R shared with me Buckminster Fuller's 1963 book "No More Secondhand God." I only know of Bucky as the New England Technology-inventor thinker, who was also involved in the 1960s but iconoclastically (didn't seem really to be a hippy, for example - how to be an iconoclast in a time of iconoclasticism?) ...

I was also glad to learn of the Press which published it - Southern Illinois University Press. When I went to their website, the editor-in-chief is listed as interested in "Beat Studies" - http://commercemanager.siupress.com/images/assets/File/Submitting%20a%20Proposal.pdf - and they do publish a little anthropology, sociology and media studies, but it's not their forte. They also have a marketing staff and other the other aspects of an established press (since the 1950s).

So I think the goals in terms of publishing my Harbin book SOON are now to explore publishing with SIU by sending off a proposal with their guidelines, that ask for slightly new information from other proposals I've sent in, and at the same time edit my book to very close to a finished state. I see this a little bit as a Taoist strategy as well.

At the same time, I've found out more about DIY self-publishing with Amazon's CreateSpace publishing option, which is free (they get money when a book sells, and I saw you could pay them $39 for something related in the sign up process), including web sites with little items (ISBN etc) they'll ask for, all of which SIU or another press would ask for as well. One big question, besides marketing, with CreateSpace is whether I could simply enter in Academic Press at WUaS and the answer seems to be possibly yes - see http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2014/03/lyn-horner/ - but this seems to be ambiguous. And there possibly are marketing steps CreateSpace would help with too. 

So, thinking out loud in writing in terms of a publishing-soon strategy, I think I'm going to edit my Harbin book with focus, and also send a proposal to SIU Press, and if I hear back negatively, consider another press or creating an Academic Press at WUaS having gathering further book publishing items.

WUaS would like to create the Harvard of the Internet in terms of publishing in all ~8000 languages, thanks to information technology, so starting a WUaS press has much merit, if I hear no from SIU.

I"ll try to inquire too with Dave at Harbin about some color photos I've sent out to publishers saying I don't yet have permissions and which have the word Harbin.org writ-large on them. 

On with writing SIU's book proposal, editing my Harbin manuscript and filling out a short Cisco Innovation Grant proposal on how WUaS will "Drive the Internet of Things" with Larry.

Thanks so much for calling, and talking this morning.

Thanks - and great to catch up. A professor at Berkeley once suggested sending a book proposal to only one (academic) press at a time, which I've done thus far (to about 10 presses!), so in the "lee" of your good suggestion, I'll plan to submit my manuscript proposal first to SIU Press, then potentially to UW, NYU, Northwestern, etc ... possibly before considering publishing with the "Academic Press at World University and School" -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Press_at_World_University_and_School - simply by writing this into a self-publishing template's field, such as with CreateSpace. WUaS also wants to create an online bookstore -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bookstore_/_Computer_Store_%28New_%26_Used%29_at_WUaS - which makes your suggestion sensible as well.