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A couple months ago, we featured Provincetown Public Press here on the Library as Incubator Project website, and got to hear from Matt Clark, who is Creative Director at Provincetown Public Library in Massachusetts about the groundbreaking initiative to create a library-based digital press. We can’t get enough of innovative ways to support and collect community-created content, so we invited Matt and Provincetown’s Executive Director, Cheryl Napsha, to write a series of posts on different aspects of the Press. This week, we get a peek into the process of building Provincetown Public Press, PLUS the books they are publishing this year! Enjoy. ~Erinn Building Provincetown Public Press by Matt Clark, Creative Director + Cheryl Napsha, Executive Director The idea for the Provincetown Public Press emerged from collaboration between Matt and Cheryl, who were originally assembling a digital library portfolio. Matt, who is extremely enamored with his new iMac, taught himself iBook creation one night, and the project went to the next level. Soon after, Matt raised the idea of creating a digital publishing company. Because Matt is not trained as a librarian, he is sometimes able to see the larger picture more clearly. In watching publishing trends and marketing news, Matt came to believe […]