OR Books is a New York City-based independent publishing house founded by John Oakes and Colin Robinson in 2009.[1] The company sells digital and print-on-demand books directly to the customer and focuses on creative promotion through traditional media and the Internet.[2] On its site, OR Books states that it "embraces progressive change in politics, culture and the way we do business."
In September 2010, OR Books announced a partnership with a writers' collective known as Mischief & Mayhem, whose members include Dale Peck, Lisa Dierbeck, Joshua Furst, DW Gibson, and Choire Sicha.[3]
In what the industry newsblog Shelf Awareness termed a "very significant...move," St. Mark’s Bookshop and OR Books announced a joint venture to enable the store’s customers to buy select books on OR’s list from the bookstore’s website.[4][5]
In April 2016, OR Books acquired UK publishing company Serif, following the death in 2015 of its founder Stephen Hayward, a former associate of Robinson's.[6][7][8][9]
In May 2016, OR Books and Counterpoint Press announced a partnership whereby Counterpoint would put several OR titles into stores.[10]
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