Plus One Press
Book and Periodical PublishingUnited States2-10 Employees
Plus One's founders have experienced the abuses inherent in the current mainstream publishing business. We've determined that the best way to avoid such abuses in the future is to take ownership of our own publishing milieu and to create a small press publishing house that supports authors and their works, as opposed to merely acquiring “product” and attempting to maximize profits. Today, larger publishers are generally focused on the revenue requirements handed down to them by their even larger corporate conglomerate owners. The adoption of the “bestseller” model is a desperate attempt to meet profit requirements that in many cases exceed 20% net. This has evolved the publishing industry into an insensitive behemoth that has little or no regard for the creative element it seeks to exploit. Plus One Press was founded to provide an alternative to the broken publishing model, by creating a business with philosophical and operational models in line with that original purpose of commercial publishing. The author, as the creative source for everything we do as publishers, has been given an extremely short end of the stick in the transformation of this industry from active enabler to predatory vampire. Plus One Press seeks to reverse this trend. Our responsibility to the public is to help increase the diversity of titles available to it. We do this by presenting works that have been deemed “incredibly good, but not commercial enough” by the mainstream houses. Only a very few authors nail it with their initially submitted manuscript, and produce a book that can go straight to typeset. All too often, the publisher's responsibility is misunderstood to be “optimize the book for commercial appeal.” This is at least partially false. The publisher’s true responsibility to the work itself is to help the author reveal the story being told. Bottom line: our responsibility to ourselves is to do it right.
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