“Damn the torpedoes and full steam ahead”: O/R Books to relaunch Evergreen Review
Legendary countercultural quarterly Evergreen Review is due to be resurrected by O/R Books, the publisher announced yesterday. Launched by the late Barney Rosset, the former publisher of Grove Press, in… Read more »
Modern-day samizdat: publishing LGBT voices in Russia
As the 2014 Winter Olympics head into their second week, all eyes are on the sporting events and political controversies unfolding now in Sochi. Attracting less attention is Russian Prime… Read more »
A quarter of what? Confusing Amazon ebook sales stat released
The Guardian ran a misleading headline yesterday: “Amazon reveals quarter of ebook sales in US were for indie publishers.” The story was based on a tweet from Writer.ly during a… Read more »
Meet the artists documenting America’s secret trials
With media attention focused almost exclusively this week on the NSA leaker Edward Snowden, currently evading criminal charges in Hong Kong, it’s easy to forget that closer to home, another… Read more »
Julian Assange to publish new book
The close quarters of the Ecuadorian embassy have not wearied Julian Assange. The United States’ OR Books have just announced that on November 26 they will publish his new book, Cypherpunks: Freedom and the… 1 / Read more »
Is selling direct the best way to fight Amazon?
In a Publishers Weekly opinion essay, indie publisher John Oakes of OR Books argues that publishers can best fight Amazon by cutting them out of the equation entirely and selling… 2 / Read more »