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PM Press
Founded2007; 17 years ago (2007) [1]
Country of origin United States
Headquarters location Binghamton, New York [2]
Distribution Independent Publishers Group (US)
Turnaround Publisher Services (UK) [3]
Publication types Books
Official website www.pmpress.org

PM Press is an independent publisher, founded in 2007, that specializes in radical, Marxist and anarchist literature, as well as crime fiction, graphic novels, music CDs, and political documentaries. It has offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and West Virginia, with their headquarters in New York.

Timeline

  • 2007 — started in late 2007 by AK Press founder Ramsey Kanaan and several other members of AK Press, including Craig O'Hara. [4]
  • 2008 — publications:
    • Wobblies & Zapatistas, a synthesis of anarchism and Marxism by historian Staughton Lynd and Balkans dissident Andrej Grubacic
    • Chumbawamba’s four-part harmonizing of the history of British dissent in English Rebel Songs 1381–1984
    • The Big Noise production team's video magazine Dispatches
    • Lois Ahrens’ graphic depiction of the effects of mass incarceration in The Real Cost of Prisons Comix
    • Teaching Rebellion, the oral histories of the Oaxacan Uprising (also available in a Spanish-language edition)
    • eco-philosopher Derrick Jensen (How Shall I Live My Life? and Now This War Has Two Sides CD), and former Black Panther and freed member of the Angola 3 Robert King (From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King)
    • activism of Staughton Lynd and IWW Starbucks organizer Daniel Gross in Labor Law for the Rank and Filer
    • last three decades of struggle to free political prisoners, Let Freedom Ring. [5]
  • 2009 — publications:
  • 2010 — publications:
  • 2013 — publications:
    • noir imprint, Switchblade
    • "Spectacular Fiction" imprint for science fiction
    • "Found in Translation", featuring translations of fiction by Japanese author Tomoyuki Hoshino
    • Calling All Heroes by Mexican novelist Paco Ignacio Taibo II
    • "Spectre", a political economy imprint
    • "Tofuhound", an imprint founded by Vegan Freak authors Bob and Jenna Torres
    • "Outspoken Authors" imprint of pocketbooks feature Terry Bisson, Michael Moorcock, Kim Stanley Robinson and Eleanor Arnason and other fiction writers with conversations on their work, politics, writing, and engagement (crime writer Gary Phillips was the only non-SF author to have an Outspoken Authors title)
  • 2016 — publications:
  • 2020 — sold ebooks to Internet Archive in a way to make them available to the public. [6]
  • 2022 — relocated from California to New York. [2]

See also

References

  1. ^ "About" PM Press.
  2. ^ a b DeLore, Traci (March 18, 2022). "California publisher moves headquarters to Binghamton". The Central New York Business Journal. Archived from the original on January 24, 2024. Retrieved January 24, 2024.
  3. ^ "PM Press". Turnaround Publisher Services. Retrieved December 10, 2022.
  4. ^ Carroll, Tobias. "I've Got A Name: AK Press, Radical Politics, and Music". Experience Music Project Pop Conference (2008). Archived from the original on November 24, 2010. Retrieved November 2, 2010.
  5. ^ a b c "Book TV: Craig O'Hara - Co-founder, PM Press in West Virgini", November 11, 2008.
  6. ^ Adams, Caralee (September 21, 2020). "PM Press Sells Ebooks to Internet Archive: 'We want our books to be in every library'". Internet Archive Blogs. Archived from the original on September 22, 2020. Retrieved September 21, 2020.

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