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I don't know about you, but to me it feels ickier and ickier to buy from the major publishers which gobble up the little ones like so much krilll. They don't seem to have a literary mission any more. They may as well be a factory for OEM car parts.
I know there are new and real pressures on them, including the decline in readers. But that doesn't change the dissatisfaction I have--a reader!--primarily with the slapdash editing. I buy books. I want them to be ones that give me that sense of money well spent.
That's my soapbox. And now the ongoing updated directory of Independent Publishers mentioned in the messages below.
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Transit Press nonprofit, based in the San Francisco Bay Area
I know there are new and real pressures on them, including the decline in readers. But that doesn't change the dissatisfaction I have--a reader!--primarily with the slapdash editing. I buy books. I want them to be ones that give me that sense of money well spent.
That's my soapbox. And now the ongoing updated directory of Independent Publishers mentioned in the messages below.
DIRECTORY
Transit Press nonprofit, based in the San Francisco Bay Area
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Transit Press You can buy direct from their websites
https://www.transitbooks.org/
and
https://www.transitchildrenseditions.org/
From their "about" page:
—Essays are published under the "Undelivered Lectures" series.“We want to provide an outlet for discursive prose of exceptional literary and cultural value that’s more lasting than a magazine piece but less substantial than a 300-page hardback,” said Transit publisher Adam Levy. “Undelivered Lectures is an opportunity to introduce readers to boundary-pushing works of narrative nonfiction.”
—Translated Children's books are under their "Transit Children's Editions", "highlighting bold, imaginative, visually distinctive children’s books from around the world."
—Merch, take a look at this unusual bumpsticker :
https://www.transitbooks.org/books/i-who-have-never-known-men-bumper-sticker
Lastly, it was this article https://www.thecut.com/article/booktok-i-who-have-never-known-men-novel.html that inspired me to create this topic. The article is about the surprising success of I Who Have Never Known Men and how it was this nonprofit independent publisher, founded in only 2015, that brought this work back to attention of hundreds of thousands of readers. Me, included.
https://www.transitbooks.org/
and
https://www.transitchildrenseditions.org/
From their "about" page:
Transit Books is committed to the discovery and promotion of enduring works that carry readers across borders and communities.
Transit Books publishes a carefully curated list of award-winning literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, essay, and literature for children. Transit authors have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, a National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN Translation Prize, and have been finalists for the National Book Award, the International Booker Prize, the National Translation Award, and more.
—Essays are published under the "Undelivered Lectures" series.“We want to provide an outlet for discursive prose of exceptional literary and cultural value that’s more lasting than a magazine piece but less substantial than a 300-page hardback,” said Transit publisher Adam Levy. “Undelivered Lectures is an opportunity to introduce readers to boundary-pushing works of narrative nonfiction.”
—Translated Children's books are under their "Transit Children's Editions", "highlighting bold, imaginative, visually distinctive children’s books from around the world."
—Merch, take a look at this unusual bumpsticker :
https://www.transitbooks.org/books/i-who-have-never-known-men-bumper-sticker
Lastly, it was this article https://www.thecut.com/article/booktok-i-who-have-never-known-men-novel.html that inspired me to create this topic. The article is about the surprising success of I Who Have Never Known Men and how it was this nonprofit independent publisher, founded in only 2015, that brought this work back to attention of hundreds of thousands of readers. Me, included.
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