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This is a list of English-language small presses, small publishers, current or past, that have published (printed) works of fiction and nonfiction, poetry, short stories, essays, pamphlets, limited edition or collectible books and chapbooks, and other forms of literature.
SPD was founded in 1969 in Berkeley, California, by Peter Howard of Serendipity Books and Jack Shoemaker of Sand Dollar Press. [1] The fledgling organization provided small-scale distribution services for only eight publishers. [4] Initially called Serendipity Books Distribution, [1] it was renamed Small Press Distribution by the late 1970s ...
In recent years, though, the small publishers have especially made gains as big publishers have backed away from publishing literary works. Small press publications have won some of the greatest literary prizes, including the Stella Prize, the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. There was a strong ...
Most small or independent publishers have relationships with a distributor, including self-published authors, who often use services like Amazon.com to sell to the public. The large publishing companies, including the "Big Five" ( Penguin Random House , Hachette , Macmillan , HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster ), act as distributors for the ...
The Mysterious Press is an American publishing company specializing in mystery fiction based in New York City. [1] The company has been associated with various publishing companies, most recently with Grove Atlantic, where it was an imprint from 2011 to 2019. [2] As of January 1, 2020, it became an independent imprint as part of Penzler ...
Poisoned Pen Press was founded in 1997 by Barbara G. Peters, Robert Rosenwald, and their daughter, Susan Malling.Peters, who had founded Scottsdale Arizona's 'The Poisoned Pen, A Mystery Bookstore' a decade ago, sees consolidations in the publishing industry as a threat to cultural diversity and to the survival of the independent bookstore.
Mercury Publications (a.k.a. Mercury Press) was a magazine publishing company,initially owned and operated by Lawrence E. Spivak, which mainly published genre fiction in digest-sized formats. The focus of Spivak's line was on detective and mystery stories and novels, but it also included magazines about humor, fantasy, and true crime.
Formerly the Small Press Center, the Center was founded by Whitney North Seymour, Jr. in 1984. The Center's historical seedbed as the home of independent publishing dates back to 1831, when James Harper , one of the original four Harper Brothers, joined as a member of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York ...