Want to Start a Small Press?

 I have a friend who wants to do so. He has already been sent A Window Into the Workings of Small Presses. If you are considering your own small, then think about this:

More interesting than how the projects were funded — which is important to making the realities of artistic publishing more transparent — is the question of how monetary value impacts cultural and conceptual value, in addition to materials. Across nearly all the interviews, publishers explained the effects of making expensive handmade books versus commercially produced books that could be sold more affordably. Ugly Duckling Presse, which published this volume, had a model (at the time of the interview in 2008) of keeping prices low “just to insist that the value of literature, poetry, and translation that we publish isn’t really determined by market forces.” As a member of the collective editorial team, Matvei Yankelevich explained, “value has been part of our experiment from the outset — an attempt to prove the lack of value that culture attaches to the kind of poetry that we publish.” 

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