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When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses…

So, you want to publish books.  Drawing on 24 years of experience operating an independent publishing company, Joe…

Want to get off the internet? For many years we've been trying to create a catalog that simultaneously meets the needs…

Every year lately we've been making a new catalog in the format of a poster! On the front, there's a comic (or some…

Can bookstores save the world? As bastions of culture, anchors of local retail districts, community gathering places,…

Bookstores are important. So are booksellers. And they—and the ideas and communities they serve—need…

The history of Microcosm Publishing, from its origins as a record label and zine distro in Joe Biel's bedroom closet in…

Kick procrastination to the curb and start designing your productivity system today! This zine gives you space to start…

A David and Goliath story, On The Books is the first-hand comic strip account of the labor struggle at NYC’s legendary…

So you've written a book—now what? Your next step is to find your readers and get that book into their hands. Eleanor…

Sarah Royal spent some time working in a Chicago book bindery, and writes candidly about her experience there. From the…

The power of the pedal and the page shine through in these ten joyfully feminist science fiction and fantasy stories.…

Plan out your publishing empire, from mission to budgets, with this workbook companion to Joe Biel's A People's Guide to…

Ever gotten lost in a book? Or on your bicycle? Or both at once, by falling through a portal on the page? Anything is…

This catalog is designed for the book industry, and anyone else who wants to see what we are publishing (and have…

Do you dream of being a writer, but despair of finding the resources to make it happen? Writing for your passion, or…

What better way to learn to think critically about the political system and social world we live in—and dream up…

The 20th issue of quintessential parenting zine Rad Dad features articles about special needs children, traditional…