Small Press has become the accepted term for modestly financed book publishers that issue the sorts of titles that commercial publishers would not publish. . . . Thus, compared to commercial publishers, Small Presses have been particularly open to those who are generally excluded – political or sexual radicals, avant-garde writers, black writers, or religious writers, to name a few.
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