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| − | '''AK Press''' is a [[workers' self-management|worker-run]]<ref name=ABOUTAKPRESS>[http://www.akpress.org/about/aboutakenglish About AK Press] AK Press</ref> book publisher and distributer that specializes in anarchist literature. It is one of world's largest distributors and publishers of anarchist and left-wing books. Established in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1990,<ref name=PW>Judith Rosen, [http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6555178.html?industryid=47144 Anarchy Reigns at AK Press] ''Publishers Weekly''</ref> it distributes more than 100,000 books per year.<ref>[http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/02/88441.php Information on AK Press in Melbourne Indymedia]</ref> U.S. branch of the AK Press was opened in 1994. It has doubled the number of units it sells over the past decade and grossed $1.4 million in 2007. It is organized as an anarchist collective,<ref name=PW/> it's members work together without relying on internal hierarchies, without corporate structure, without bosses and without managers.<ref name=ABOUTAKPRESS/> | + | '''AK Press''' is a [[workers' self-management|worker-run]]<ref name=ABOUTAKPRESS>[http://www.akpress.org/about/aboutakenglish About AK Press] AK Press</ref> book publisher and distributer that specializes in anarchist literature. It is one of world's largest distributors and publishers of anarchist and left-wing books. Established in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1990,<ref name=PW>Judith Rosen, [http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6555178.html?industryid=47144 Anarchy Reigns at AK Press] ''Publishers Weekly''</ref> it distributes more than 100,000 books per year.<ref>[http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/02/88441.php Information on AK Press in Melbourne Indymedia]</ref> U.S. branch of the AK Press was opened in 1994. It has doubled the number of units it sells over the past decade and grossed $1.4 million in 2007. It is organized as an anarchist collective,<ref name=PW/> it's members work together without relying on internal hierarchies, without corporate structure, without bosses and without managers. Its website states, "We’ve replaced hierarchy with cooperation, accountability, and responsibility of our individual members."<ref name=ABOUTAKPRESS/> |
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Revision as of 18:06, 22 October 2008
AK Press is a worker-run[1] book publisher and distributer that specializes in anarchist literature. It is one of world's largest distributors and publishers of anarchist and left-wing books. Established in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1990,[2] it distributes more than 100,000 books per year.[3] U.S. branch of the AK Press was opened in 1994. It has doubled the number of units it sells over the past decade and grossed $1.4 million in 2007. It is organized as an anarchist collective,[2] it's members work together without relying on internal hierarchies, without corporate structure, without bosses and without managers. Its website states, "We’ve replaced hierarchy with cooperation, accountability, and responsibility of our individual members."[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 About AK Press AK Press
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Judith Rosen, Anarchy Reigns at AK Press Publishers Weekly
- ↑ Information on AK Press in Melbourne Indymedia
