First they came...

It's a tough time for the world of independent press. The latest bit of bad news is the shuttering of Punk Planet, a longtime standard-bearer of the alternate press which unfortunately I hadn't discovered until hearing the news last week. It was felled by the first half of a recent double-whammy on the indie press, the bankruptcy of the Independent Press Association. The latter half is the jacking of postal rates for small publishers (let it not be said of the new Congress doesn't know where its bread is buttered.)

Feels like jumping from one sinking ship to another...