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Mergers and acquisitions, small press style

October 06, 2022 — by Elly Blue

This week on the People’s Guide to Publishing podcast, Joe and Elly answer a reader question: someone runs a small press and wants to know how they can become an imprint of a larger press. We speak about this from experience: in 2014, Elly’s very tiny press merged with Microcosm, and we talked about what worked, what didn’t, and how it’s going now.

Tags: business of publishing, elly blue publishing, podcast

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