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The underground press was founded in the mid 1990s as a web design and publishing company. It has since expanded into many areas of ePublishing as technology and the Internet have grown and evolved into the interactive world of social networks and information sharing we know today. When the underground press first entered cyberspace, the web was just starting to grow – with Internet Relay Chat (IRC) the only truly interactive form of communication, and web pages mainly composed of hyperlinked text files. A lot has changed.
As the Internet grew and advanced, the underground press was there. The underground press designed, implemented, and managed a website for one of the first eChurches meeting weekly via the Internet, The Underground Church. That congregation grew and the underground press provided interactive capabilities long before social networking sites existed. The eChurch no longer meets online, but continues as Christian Underground Ministries, and their website is still hosted and managed by the underground press.
In recent years the underground press entered into ePublishing as the first online books began to appear. With author Maxwell Cynn, a website was developed for the interactive eNovel ArchAngelxx. Soon thereafter, two eBooks were published. ArchAngelxx and CybrGrrl were ePublished for Maxwell Cynn on MobiPocket Books when that service was first starting. ArchAngelxx, in eBook form, quickly became a Best Seller on the MobiPocket web site. When Amazon.com introduced the Kindle Reader, the underground press ePublished ArchAngelxx and CybrGrrl on Kindle.
With the growing popularity of Publish On Demand (POD) publishing the underground press is again at the forefront as we prepare several new publications for print. Maxwell Cynn has prepared a novelization of the interactive Archngelxx that will be printed as The Collective. We will also be producing a print edition of CybrGrrl. Other upcoming titles by Maxwell Cynn will be published by the underground press in print and eBook editions. We have also ePublished, on MobiPocket and Kindle, the Sermon Archives of The Underground Church.
The underground press will continue to seek the cutting edge of new communication technologies as we design for the future of the Internet and Publishing. The future promises new forms of literature and expression that have yet to be envisioned, and the underground press will be there. Social networking and intercommunication will continue the make the world a smaller and more intimate place where writer and reader, artist and fan collaborate together in new interactive forms of literature and art. The giants of the industry move slow. It is the small and adaptable that will ride the wave into the future.
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