Hello! I have just submitted a few sites into the directory and now am saying: "Hello and how are you?"

This is my first forum of any type, but I am eager to make contact with fellow small press publishers. Ours is a weird medium, falling into that grey area between art and commerce, and viewed by the majority of North American culture as being... well I don't know.

Thanks so much for this opportunity and this wonderful meeting place.

Welcome! Glad to be your first forum experience...the Small Press Exchange is a brand-spanking new community...so you picked a great place to get initiated! Let me know if you have any questions!

Well, it looks like smallpressexchange is just growing.

My apologies for my recent (relative) silence. I can only proffer the normal excuses of work and small press commitments eating (Ahadada Books will have a new book by Jerome Rothenberg out in September/October) into all my waking hours, leaving none spare for Small Press Exchange updates. I hope to get back to something like normal in a day or two.

Despite the relative silence, there has been a lot of activity behind the scenes at The Small Press Exchange and Ahadada Books. Here is one item of interest...

Ahadada Books, in association with West House Books and Ikuta Press, have launched an online shop designed to provide our readers in North America with the books they want at affordable prices—over 50 _title_s are available on-line from this new area of our website.

The new shop was a planned extension of our site and fits with our mission to provide _title_s not readily available in Canada and North America. We hope this new extensions serves as a valuable supplement to augment sales, support traditional sales channels and better serve regional markets.

At the moment we offer a selected number books, but before the end of this year we hope to make the additional presses and books available for purchase.

Check it out here.