support independent print-on-demand publishers
This may sound blunt...but there are several reasons why you should support independent publishing, especially print-on-demand publishers.
The inconvenient truth of the matter is, your typical brick-and-mortar publishing house prints books from the crappiest materials possible and there is no precision to their manufacturing standards. Also, they only prioritize commercially-viable content, even the so-called 'non-profit publishing houses' behave this way.
If you truly want independent, human-authored, unbiased written-content in quality, archival books, then you should support independent print-on-demand publishers like Point Pleasant Publishing, not the big name or established publishing house brands.
Isn't the whole point of owning a 'book' is so the accumulated materials are archival to stand the test of time and contains free-spirited content?
Nobody can compete with the quality of Point Pleasant Publishing linen wrap hardcover books. They are archival, strong, sturdy, beautiful, and made from the finest materials.
Visit our bookstore at https://www.pointpleasantpublishing.net/hardcover-catalogue and support genuine, quality publishing.
There is also an open call for experimental artists to become published with human-authored curatorial review essays at https://www.pointpleasantpublishing.net/info-callforartists
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Pretty funny how the mainstream commercialized art world pretends to behave like they represent the marginalized aspects of society when they still push a Western-European-North-American-male narrative in the contemporary art historical canon and practice oligarchical and surveillance-based tendencies in their operations.
Who are they fooling?
No. The mainstream commercialized art world are not 'freedom fighters' representing the marginalized aspects of society, rather, they are obsessed with controlling information, especially through academia and brick-and-mortar publishing houses. Which is why they find independent print-on-demand publishing so threatening and try to discredit the practice, despite the fact we publish quality-crafted books, human-authored, unbiased content, and do not censor artists...
You can read more about this information at https://www.pointpleasantpublishing.net/pointpleasant . Read the essay titled Today's Avant-Garde Operate Outside the Art Historical Canon.