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Once upon a time, an editor could try out one or two wacky books, knowing full well that their list would counterbalance any risk with a stable of best-sellers and safe bets. Nowadays, every book must earn its own bread. With low overheads and an often episodic operating status, the small independent press is nicely placed to snap up the most innovative literature going at the moment. To take the risks. Meaning that small presses are no longer just outfits set up to publish your or your friends' work. They have something genuinely important to offer.

Andrew Latimer's Popular Quotes

In one sense, you put a lot of yourself into a small press - it's your personal tastes that are on the line - so when criticism is levelled it can fe…

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One of the challenges faced by the little press like Little Island Press is as always, tricking people into buying books. I'm told that the next gene…

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Once upon a time, an editor could try out one or two wacky books, knowing full well that their list would counterbalance any risk with a stable of be…

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One of the great advantages of only publishing five books per year is that I get to be excited about every book.

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There's a reason that so much good material is coming down to the small presses: it's difficult to turn a profit, all things considered. But you can'…

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Despite wanting to work in publishing, I was a publisher's worst nightmare: I rarely bought new books. So my goal was to publish the kind of books I …

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Like a lot of small press founders I was looking for a way into publishing - as well as a way out of academia. Without moving to London, I couldn't s…

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