25 Independent Presses That Prove This Is the Golden Age of Indie Publishing

Independent publishing - that is, publishing whatever an individual or small group think is worthy of dumping their time and money into - is nothing new. From Virginia and Leonard Woolf starting up Hogarth Press to the early days of Farrar, Straus and Giroux championing now-iconic authors that other publishers wouldn't touch, DIY publishing has long been responsible for some of our best literature.

That's why, no matter what the latest doomsday prognostication about the future of big publishing happens to be, this is an exciting time to be a fan of literature.