Portland State University PDXScholar English Faculty Publications and Presentations English Spring 2019 The Discourse and Value of Being an Independent Publisher Rachel Noorda Portland State University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/eng_fac Part of the Creative Writing Commons, and the English Language and Literature Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Citation Details Noorda, Rachel. "The Discourse and Value of Being an Independent Publisher." Mémoires du livre/Studies in Book Culture 10, no. 2 (2019). (https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/memoires/ 2019-v10-n2-memoires04677/1060971ar/) This Article is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in English Faculty Publications and Presentations by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible:
[email protected]. Document generated on 01/13/2021 1:45 p.m. Mémoires du livre Studies in Book Culture The Discourse and Value of Being an Independent Publisher Rachel Noorda Les discours de l’éditeur Article abstract The Publisher's Discourse Publishing did not have independents enter self-discourse until the 1960s when Volume 10, Number 2, Spring 2019 media conglomeration created a need to distinguish other publishers from this network of corporate giants. But rather than decimating the independent URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1060971ar publishing landscape, the corporate conglomeration of book publishing has DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/1060971ar opened a space for independent publishers to thrive (Simon and McCarthy, 2009; Schiffrin, 2001; Hawthorne, 2014, 2016; Kogan 2007, 2010), in part because of the social currency that positioning themselves as independent in See table of contents discourse affords.