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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…

Do you have a passion that you want to obsess about in a love letter to the world? In this new edition of Microcosm’s…

Society of American Travel Writers Guidebook Award Winner!  In the tradition of our DIY city guide The Zinester's Guide…

"Zines and underground culture offer up an alternative, a way of understanding and acting in the world that operates…

A cultural analysis of what causes zine makers to tick; what the hell zines are, why people make zines, the origin of…

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

In the late 90s, the music scene in Miami was at the infancy of becoming the multi-million dollar cultural and artistic…

Winner of The Society of American Travel Writer's Bronze Travel Book Award! In Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in…

The Zine Yearbook #9 contains a representative collection of reprints from zines published in 2007 and also a pulse…

When Moore, a writer and independent publisher, brought her experience in the American cultural underground to Cambodia…

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

Fly walks you through creating your own zine or comic in this clear and SUPER helpful guide to everything from scripting…

Wear your love of underground literature as a badge of pride! Because you never need to rely on a few giant corporations…

Growing up immersed in the feminist, DIY values of punk, Riot Grrrl, and zine culture of the 1990s and early 2000s…

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

Here's issue #25 of Xerography, featuring more of the beloved "review zine with perzine tendencies" wherein your…

Reviewers in this issue include Anne Thalheimer, D. Blake Wert, Davida Gypsy Breier, Eric Lyden,Fred Argoff, Gavin…

 Get engaged with the world through books! Ride your bike to the library. Tack this 1" round pinback button on your…

Davida Gypsy Breier's review zine, Xerography Debt, is a labor of love and obsession. This 30th issue, Xerography…