Lots of #BannedBooks and #OutOfPrintBooks on the #InternetArchive. This isn't about #copyright -- this is about #censorship! There are only FIVE major publishers in the US -- and they keep trying to merge to create even bigger #monopolies! Often, big publishing companies buy out #IndependentPublishers and #SmallPublishers, so they can stop printing their books!

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Steal This Book while you still can!

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https://archive.org/details/pdfy-TNlDHryRIk4DXKAU

How ironic. The publisher reprinting Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book" was one of the ones suing the #InternetArchive -- Hatchett Publishing!

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I used to have a copy of Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book" (gifted to me by an poet activist buddy) but someone stole it from me! Appropriate!

"Steal This Book is a book written by Abbie Hoffman. Written in 1970 and published in 1971, the book exemplified the counterculture of the sixties. The book sold more than a quarter of a million copies between April and November 1971. The number of copies that were stolen is unknown.

"The book is, in the style of the counterculture, mainly focused on ways to fight against the government and against corporations in any way possible. The book is written in the form of a guide to the youth. Hoffman, a political and social activist himself, used many of his own activities as the inspiration for some of his advice in Steal This Book."

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_This_Book

Big publishing houses often buy out small, independent publishers, just to push them (and their books) into oblivion! The #internetArchive was helping to keep those books from being lost to history!

The End of Progressive Book Publishing in the Age of Monopoly Capital?

Tom Engelhardt 09/28/2022

"After all, like Pantheon, at the moment of its demise, it was a lively, deeply progressive operation, churning out powerful new titles — until, that is, it was essentially shut down when Sara, a miraculous publisher like André, was shown the door along with her staff. Bam! What did it matter that, thanks to her, Metropolitan still occupied a space filled by no other house in mainstream publishing? Nothing obviously, not to Holt, or assumedly Macmillan, the giant American publishing conglomerate of which it was a part, or the German Holtzbrinck Publishing Group that owns Macmillan.

"How strange that we’re in a world where two such publishing houses, among the best and most politically challenging around, could find that there simply was no place for them as progressive publishers in the mainstream. André [Schiffrin], who died in 2013, responded by launching an independent publishing house, #TheNewPress, an admirable undertaking. In terms of the #DispatchBooks I still put out from time to time, I find myself in a similar world, dealing with another adventurous independent publishing outfit, #HaymarketBooks.

"Still, what an eerie mainstream we now inhabit, don’t we?

"I mean, when it comes to what capitalism is doing on this planet of ours, book publishing is distinctly small (even if increasingly mashed) potatoes. After all, we’re talking about a world where giant fossil-fuel companies with still-soaring profits are all too willing to gaslight the public while quite literally burning the place up — or perhaps I mean flooding the place out. (Don’t you wonder sometimes what the CEOs of such companies are going to tell their grandchildren?)."

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https://www.juancole.com/2022/09/progressive-publishing-monopoly.html

Just enjoyed reading these two gems. So, a big shout out to CB Editions, one of the most original small publishers around https://www.cbeditions.com/ #SmallPublishers #Books #literature