No Tell Books does not run book contests or charge reading fees. No Tell Books does not earn money on anyone’s desire to be published. Nor does it receive grants, government funding or donations.

No Tell Books earns money by selling books.

Selling really kick-ass poetry books.
That’s a novel strategy, eh? Is that what No Tell Books is succeeding at? They are using Lulu Press and making low cost poetry books.
A couple have been poets who participated in the miPOesias reading series, like Bruce Covey. A sample is from from his book, Elapsing Speedway Organism:
From line by loop & hook, trying to herd you there /
To juicier grass, to release & let screw momentum


They might be a place to watch, these No Tell.
You can literally watch MiPOesies, since they have a community at YouTube of clean audio poems being read.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=miporadio
Hi. Thanks for the mention. No Tell Books isn’t affiliated with MiPO — although we adore MiPOesias and many (not all) of our authors have published there.
No Tell Books is affiliated with No Tell Motel (www.notellmotel.org). All of our authors have been published there.
And yes, the idea behind NTB is to keep costs low. There are costs, review & author copies, author and designer payments, postage, ISBN/distribution — but it’s much less (thousands less) than doing it the traditional way.
And the books really do look great.
Reb Livingston, Editor & Publisher
Thanks Reb. Glad to hear more. I’ll correct what I got wrong.