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Indie Press Bulletin
Brutalist newsprint typography. Loud headlines, dense columns.
catalogue
The Autumn Catalogue: Titles, Formats, Prices
Six titles in print this autumn, with format, page count, price and a one-line warning for each. The complete catalogue of an invented press, set out like a ledger.
letters
Letters to the Bulletin
Three letters from readers this month, the longest one angry, the shortest one kind. A small press editor answers each in public and concedes a point.
shipping
Shipping Books From a Spare Room
A small press's entire distribution system is a table, a roll of tape and a patient person named Dov. The truth about boxes, postage and the ten orders that ate a week.
spring-list
The Spring List: Three Books and an Argument
Three manuscripts made the cut for spring 2027 and one lost on a vote of two to one. How a three-person press decides what to publish, and what it regrets.
risograph
Risograph vs Offset: Choose Your Poison
Two ways to put ink on paper, two kinds of regret. A press editor argues about grain, colour, speed and the price of being fussy, with no winner declared.
printing
What a Print Run Actually Costs
One thousand paperbacks, one tiny press, one honest ledger. Every line of what it costs to make a book, and the number of copies you need to sell before it stops hurting.