Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, with Michelle Obama.
Dear Friends and Fellow Publishers:
My name is Chip Smith and I’m the sole proprietor of a small press called Nine-Banded Books, or just 9BB. You probably haven’t heard of 9BB, and that’s fine by me. The books I publish aren’t for everyone. Some of them deal with prickly ideas that many people – perhaps you? – will find offensive. That’s nothing new. Read more …
Back when I was still sorta young, when OJ’s glove was a point of popular water-cooler conversation and the World Wide Web was just a germ in a Petri dish, that’s when I spent my Saturdays at the local university library scouring databases for promising references, pulling journals from the stacks or from microfilm reels, Read more …
The conclusion of my interview with Chip Smith of Nine-Banded Books deals with anti-natalism, cosmic pessimism, H. P. Lovecraft, Hollister Kopp’s Gun Fag Manifesto, and other future 9BB publications.
My interview with Chip Smith of Nine-Banded Books continues with a discussion on historical revisionism, particularly Holocaust revisionism, and the works of three of his authors, Bradley Smith, L. A. Rollins, and Samuel Crowell. Read more …
Chip Smith runs Nine-Banded Books, an independent and iconoclastic publishing house based in Charleston, West Virginia. He is also the editor of his of The Hoover Hog, formerly a ‘zine, now a blog. Read more …
An Open Letter to Publishers & Readers Concerning Amazon’s Censorship
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Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, with Michelle Obama.
Dear Friends and Fellow Publishers:
My name is Chip Smith and I’m the sole proprietor of a small press called Nine-Banded Books, or just 9BB. You probably haven’t heard of 9BB, and that’s fine by me. The books I publish aren’t for everyone. Some of them deal with prickly ideas that many people – perhaps you? – will find offensive. That’s nothing new. Read more …