Publishing independently is as old as the printing process itself. As a matter of fact, our modern system of giant conglomerated publishing houses dominating our reading life is a relatively new idea. It is not one that has the interest of authors or the reading public in mind at all. What lies forefront on its list of priorities is the dollar bill. Rather, lots of dollar bills; as many as it can get its hands on.

Independent publishers are standing up – for themselves, for authors, for meaningful literature, and most of all for you the reader. They are standing up against these foreign owned corporate machines by writing and publishing some of the most exciting and important examples of contemporary literature.
Indie books are those published by small local presses, publishers that lie outside of the corporate machine, individuals who at their own personal expense seek the works of others to put into print, and sometimes even by the authors themselves. Indie published books are rarely, despite a common misconception, the result of failed attempts to “get published” via the corporate publishing nightmare. Instead, many are books passionately published by imprints and authors who care very deeply about the work, the literature, and the reader.

A great amount of care and devotion is poured upon these publications. It has to be – for it is only this that will allow an independently published book to rise above and out of the cacophonous white-noise of book marketing that is dominated by the giants. The Giants. They have millions of dollars to shill their swill. What they do not have is love… passion…dedication. Even they know that they need the author for that. They don’t have it, they can’t buy it.

But it is exactly this that is the heart and soul of an indie published book. Support independent books. They are doing everything they can to save literature.

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