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MICROPRESS ARCHIVE MAINTAINED?
83% of micropressers interviewed maintain an archive of one to ten copies of their publications. Archives are kept in a range of places from boxes, book shelves, and black binders to shoe boxes and cookie tins. Several micropressers also purport to keep archives of other presses' work.

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF CANADA requests two complimentary copies of every book published in Canada (one copy if the print run is less than one hundred). 25% of interviewed micropressers fulfill the request; 75% do not send copies (some intend to while others are not familiar with the request).

PUBLISHERS ON OTHER MICROPRESSES
above/ground press: "I suppose, since I've been doing this for a while, I consider a bunch of folk as siblings - housepress (Calgary; defunct), ga press (Montreal; defunct), room 302 books (Ottawa), hole books (Ottawa/Calgary/Vancouver; defunct), disOrientation books (Calgary; defunct), Broken Jaw Press (Fredericton), Conundrum Press (Montreal), proper tales press (Toronto), Outlaw Editions (Victoria; defunct), Reference West (Victoria; defunct), Nomados (Vancouver), BookThug (Toronto), fingerprinting inkoperated (Toronto; defunct), greenboathouse books (Victoria), Cubicle Press (Niagara Falls), pachyderm (Winnipeg), Staccato Chapbooks (Winnipeg: defunct). As far as parentage, I'd put IMAGO in there for sure, as well as Gronk, Ganglia, blewointment, TADS, Pink Dog, Streetcar Editions, Weed/Flower, and again, hole books (call them an older cousin, or an uncle, perhaps). There are so many it would be near impossible to mention them all."

derek beaulieu, when asked to name presses with whom he feels housepress has a sibling relationship, named above/ground, fingerprinting inkoperated, greenboathouse, yardpress, and semi-precious press, noting that "this doesnt necessarily mean that i agree with the decisions behind them -- i think of disagreeing and arguing, but also supporting, like siblings...). housepress covets room 302, grOnk, and the above as well.

BookThug: "There are presses that influenced, for sure -- blewointment, The Contact Press, Weed/Flower, Proper Tales, Charnel House, BC Monthly, Pangen Subway Ritual, ecs / letters, C Press, Oversion, curvd h&z, The Coach House Press…" The Expert Press: "I was inspired and impressed by ecs, Curvd H&z, Pangen Subway Ritual, Mark Connery, and old French books."

cold tea press: "I have a couple zinester friends whose work I always look forward to and devour... Teri Vlassopoulos and Samantha Marcelo, for example. I love the poetry chapbooks that Jeremy McLeod has made. Most of my micropress finds come from the small press fair, where I always buy books from Pedlar Press, among others."

Kitsch In Ink: "I see my publishing in line with things like Ganglia, Anonbeyon, and Writer's Forum. Acesssiblity over high production values. Given out free to interested parties. I covet anything that jwcurry produces. I also collect housepress."

yardpress: "I always enjoyed the housepress publications and admired them for their sharpness of design as well as the consistent quality of the content. BookThug is another press that constantly impresses me. things like press has just published some really interesting items. I like their simplicity and the approach to the notion of what constitutes a publication."

semi-precious press: "i actually really love Gaspereau press, though i'm not sure they really qualify as a micropress -- maybe small press. Many of my contemporaries have published and still publish chapbooks -- currently active is Brea Burton and her One Trick Pony Press. Design-wise, she and i have a lot in common. Ryan Fitzpatrick does some great stuff with broadsheets."

maple spitS: "Nicky Drumbolis's outlands series, and all of the Letters books i've seen blow my mind with their fine craftsmenship, and quality of content. jwcurry's Curved H&s also fits this magical place where the content they publish is inevitably excellent, and their means of displaying it is fine and even superfine. housepress and BookThug also are big favourites of mine, as well as those of some of my contemporaries The Expert Press and Wood & Coal especially. i like finding strange and unique presses as well, like at the small press fair in Toronto. i'm a big fan of Writer's Forum in the UK, but whether this could be called a micropress is debatable i suppose. getting a bit bigger (in terms of usually having spines), i'm a big fan of early Coach House -- again, their aesthetic and choices of who they publish have sometimes been brilliant."

iloveyougalleries.com: "i wish i could make books that look like BookThug's ... no idea how jay does it. he's meticulous."

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