The Ultimate List of DRM-free Bookshops

Julie Setele is a professional nerd, Julie can most often be found under a pile of cats.

Excessively educated, Julie earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology and women’s studies from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio; a master’s and a doctoral degree in sociology (with a designated emphasis in feminist theory and research) from the University of California, Davis; and a master’s degree in library and information science from the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Julie serves as a User Experience and Outreach Librarian at SUNY Buffalo State University’s Butler Library, where they curate a zine collection and run the Social Justice Book Club.

Julie's zines are usually available in both screen and print-friendly versions.

Twisted Ink is an small online literary magazine who publish a variety of forms, including the poetic, fiction, hybrid and creative-nonfiction.

Established in 2024 to publish and promote poetic voices, Twisted Ink is particularly interested in the grotesque, the political, and the intersection of public and private. Each online magazine adheres to a particular theme, which will be revealed on the opening up of submission periods.

The magazine is run from the North of England.

Jona or Jo is a comics artist based in so-called Toronto.

They are currently working on their first graphic novel funded by the Canada Council for the Arts while doing other small comics projects on the side.

They have worked in animation as a storyboard artist for Titmouse, Atomic, and others. Their comics have been exhibited at ShortBox Coomic Fairs.

Austin Dragon is the author of over 30 books in science fiction, fantasy, and classic horror.

His works include the sci-fi noir detective LIQUID COOL series, the epic fantasy FABLED QUEST CHRONICLES, the international futuristic epic AFTER EDEN series, the classic SLEEPY HOLLOW HORRORS, and new military sci-fi PLANET TAMERS series. He is a native New Yorker but has called Los Angeles, California home for more than twenty years. Words to describe him, in no particular order: U.S. Army, English teacher, one-time resident of Paris, ex-political junkie, movie buff, Fortune 500 corporate recruiter, renaissance man, futurist, and dreamer.

He is currently working on new books and series in science fiction, fantasy, and classic horror!

On Spec Magazine is a respected Canadian quarterly journal of literature of the fantastic.

Specializing in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Magic Realism and other genres, On Spec offers new works by emerging and established writers in every issue.

Rounak Bhunia is a creative professional specializing in crafting brand identities, writing, graphic design, and illustration work.

He's worked in the advertising industry, product design, in-house production needs, and a diverse range of freelance client work - and in his free time, he loves to design board games!

Rounak is the creator of Isles of the Sea-Kings, and the Ultimate One Page RPG Toolkit.

Born and raised in Newfoundland, Canada, Krista D. Ball is an award-winning author, something that shocked her mother who went to her grave believing it was a lie.

After obtaining a degree in British History, Krista needed to justify her student loans. Thirty books later, including the popular What Kings Ate and Wizards Drank: A Fantasy Lovers Food Guide, the loans are finally paid off, but now she’s not qualified to do anything else but write books. Expect more in the future. That wasn’t meant to sound like a threat.

Joaquin Baldwin writes fantasy novels, lives in Los Angeles with his husband, and works at the Walt Disney Animation Studios as a CG layout artist for feature animation.

Joaquin's books are driven by a fascination for the natural world and a desire to understand the cosmos. He aims to reflect that in his novels, where fantasy and magic are grounded is scientific concepts, where the marvels of the universe are those which have always been in front of us and we often take for granted.

Maria Ying are two co-writers creating extremely lesbian books.

From a lesbian Hades/Persephone retelling with giant mecha and biomechanical monsters to cyberpunk, crime and romance.

M Zakharuk writes lesbian fiction with a flair for the monstrous, the dreadful, and the thrilling.

Writer and cover designer. Author of trans sapphic fiction in SFF & horror, Zakharuk currently sells two ebook titles.

First founded in Seattle, Washington on Beltane, 2014, and the original publishers of Gods & Radicals, Ritona make knowledge of paganism, witchcraft, and related topics more available and more affordable to a wide audience.

In 2021, they re-founded in Europe as Ritona, and expanded their educational work and publishing reach through multiple languages.

A complete list of free publications available as downloads from the Association for Scottish Literature.

Founded in 1970, the Association for Scottish Literature is an educational charity that aims to promote the study, teaching and writing of Scottish literature, and to further the study of the languages of Scotland. 

To these ends, the ASL publishes works of Scottish literature which have either been neglected or which merit a fresh presentation to a modern audience, and critical anthologies of both creative and non-fiction writing.

CloisterFox is a bi-annual zine of British speculative fiction.

You will find the stories that creep uninvited along quiet corridors. Stories unnoticed by shoppers hurrying by. Secrets, miracles, and universes behind locked tenement doors. Ghosts and gallows. The dress in the attic as seen through a haze of neon.

Tell me things I don’t know, says the fox. Tell me the dreams you can’t forget. Tell me strange things.

Comix is a portfolio management tool, marketplace, crowdfunding and social place on the internet for Indie comic creators.

Founded in Australia in 2017, their mission is to become a thriving ecosystem for both creators and fans of Indie comics.

While based in Australia, Comix have a global outlook and welcome everyone from around the globe to their platform.

A Harvey Award Nominated cartoonist and Illustrator, Christine Larsen has created art for comics, book covers, stories, posters and websites; working with clients such as Dark Horse, Image, IDW, BOOM! Studios, Simon & Scheuster and Cartoon Network.  

An adjunct instructor at The University of the Arts, they teach courses in sequential art and comics.

Larsen resides in a heavily fortified North Philadelphia row home with their wee family and a sawed-off shotgun; patiently awaiting the zombie apocalypse.

Established by Niall Harrison in 2022, Briardene Books is a micro-press specialising in non-fiction about science fiction and fantasy.

Briardene currently stocks two titles, both collections of reviews and essays. I hope to see the range expand in the future to become a resource for criticism and essays on books and reading.

Duck Prints Press LLC is an independent publisher founded in January 2021 and based in New York State, US.

Their founding vision is to work with fancreators to publish their original work. They are particularly dedicated to working with queer authors and artists to publish stories featuring characters from across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum.

Baldur Bjarnason has been making websites for over twenty-five years.

He works as a web developer (front-end, back-end, or full-stack) for both companies and charities, small and large, in a variety of programming languages.

Baldur has written a number of books, a course, and a video series on topics related to software development and has been writing about web development online for years.

Lies Within is created by Lacey, a lifelong vampire fan from a small town in Canada best known for a UFO crash in the sixties.

Lies Within is her first webcomic and draws inspiration from sources such as The Vampire Chronicles, Being Human, and the general vibe of early 00's supernatural TV shows.

Her Itch shop stocks compiled chapters of the websomic, along with altenate universe and mini comics.

Founded by Eric Raglin, Cursed Morsel Press publishes short horror and Weird fiction.

Cursed Morsel is anti-fascist, anti-capitalist, and pro-queer.

Chace Verity (they/them) is publishing queer as heck stories about romance, friendship, and found families.

Chace has published stories in multiple genres including fantasy, paranormal romance, contemporary, and historical fiction, and it's likely they will keep writing whatever they want. An American citizen and Canadian permanent resident, Chace still isn't sure what a house hippo is.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye (3LBE) is an online magazine of speculative fiction, bringing you stories of horror, wonder, and the weird.

3LBE launched in 1999, and has published authors Laird Barron, Gemma Files, Kelly Barnhill, Mari Ness, Kristi DeMeester, Gwendolyn Kiste, Cody Goodfellow, Nadia Bulkin, and Kealan Patrick Burke, among others. Each issue features four short stories. Beginning with issue 20, they offer audio readings, ebook formats, and online (responsive) format for mobile devices.

They publish thrice yearly, with a print anthology every other year.

All issues of the magazine are free online. Please consider different ways to support their publication and its authors, by donating and spreading the word.

Penumbric is a magazine dedicated to riding that ever-changing edge of new and original fiction and art and sound and everything into tomorrow.

This edge is best exemplified by two things.

Speculative works that look at our world (or other worlds) in new ways, whether that be peering into the future, a look sideways at an alternative or fantastic past or present, or a hard stare into the face of horror or madness (does that sound like old eps of The Twilight Zone? Well, if that's the comparison, I'm fine with that)

A diversity of viewpoints, representing not only multiple cultures but subcultures, exploring issues of race, ethnicity, gender, orientation, and many things I haven't thought of.

Founded in the 90s, Fanatical is an UK-based bundle and gaming distributor.

As well as computer game keys, Fanatical stocks thousands of DRM-free ebook and comics through their bundle deals with leading and independent publishers.

You can even build your own bundles from a selection of themed titles.

Archive of the Odd is a zine that celebrates the weird and wonderful both in terms of story and format.

They want to provide stories that engage readers and inspire them to look at both fiction and the world around them in a new way. To date, it has published four magazine issues, seven free-to-read stories, and one novella, Cat Voleur’s Revenge Arc.

Archive of the Odd is always looking for ways to expand how stories are shared, as well as storytelling itself. One way it does this is through Found Fiction. Found fiction is a catchall term for found document, found footage, epistolary, neo-epistolary, and (in some cases) ergodic literature. These are stories told in a “non-fiction” format, such as letters, transcripts, websites, “lost media,” etc.

Olivia Stephens is a graphic novelist, illustrator, and writer from the Pacific Northwest.

She earned her BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2017. She is the author of the middle-grade werewolf graphic novel Artie and the Wolf Moon (2021). She is also the creator of the romance webcomic Alone (on hiatus).

Currently, Olivia is working on Darlin’ and Her Other Names, a werewolf-western-horror-romance comic that she self-publishes online. For her work on Darlin’, Olivia has received an Ignatz Award, a Fellowship Award from Artist Trust, and residencies at Tin House, Mineral School, Storyknife, MacDowell, and Yaddo. When not drawing, she enjoys listening to torch songs and observing tree trunks.

Second Story Press was co-founded in 1988 by Margie Wolfe and three other women dedicated to publishing feminist-inspired books for adults and young readers.

They are proud that for 35 years they've been publishing great books that matter. Second Story Press books are sold around the world, have been translated into over 50 languages, won many awards, and have been adapted for film and stage. Their list spans adult fiction and nonfiction; children’s fiction, nonfiction and picture books; and young adult fiction and nonfiction.

BubbleSort Zines are zine series filled with stories and hand-drawn art and diagrams.

They cover topics like circuits, sorting, memory, cryptography, image processing, and data structures. Though the intended audience is high school students (think Hello Ruby's teenage sister), the creator, Amy, was surprised by how many adults are also subscribers!

Amy is a programmer and alumni of MIT, Honda, the University of Tokyo Igarashi Lab, and various Bay Area startups. It's been a life long dream of Amy's to create a series of zines that cover computer science concepts in an accessible way, targeted towards people who don't think computer science is for them.

Rowan, Rook and Decard is a game publisher founded in 2017 by independent game designers Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor, with Maz Hamilton as business director.

Rowan, Rook & Decard publish Eat The Reich, Die, Heart, Spire, Honey Heist, Unbound, Goblin Quest, and many other tabletop games.

Their mission is to create awesome moments through exciting, beautiful, clever games. And their vision is to innovate and explore new ground with enduring, excellent experiences.

Hog River Press is a print and online poetry journal edited on the banks of the Hog River in Connecticut.

They print magnificent poems, engender conversation between poets, and indulge in the occasional crazed paper arts collaboration.

The press is run by Kathryn James, a rare book librarian and book historian, and Julian Aiken, a poet and librarian.

Moose Kids Comics is a glorious 36-page, free to read, digital children’s comic.

It features over 40 of the best comic artists working today, from well-established heroes to newer talents from the indie and web scenes. Each contributing their own entirely original characters, exclusively for our comic.

No-one involved makes any profit, all artists have given their time for free.

Here in the U.K, mainstream children’s comics have been dying out, especially ones featuring original content. The Phoenix and The Beano are the only commercially available weekly titles still producing entirely original characters, but they are competing against big-name licensed titles based on TV shows or merchandising.

We want to help change things. We want to be creating the next generation of loveable characters for the world to embrace, all created by artists who retain their copyrights and put all their heart into their creations.

We want to remind both children and adults alike how fantastical and imaginative comics can be, and to help bring children’s comics back into the public consciousness.

Founded in 2001, BenBella Books is a publishing boutique that aims to be the publisher of choice for a select group of authors who value personal attention, a partnership philosophy, flexibility, and a creative approach to marketing.

BenBella publishes a range of nonfiction (and the very occasional fiction title) in a wide variety of categories and particularly likes quality nonfiction aimed at a niche market. Genres include health and nutrition; science, culture, and current events; business, with a mix of popular and inspirational titles; and pop culture and celebrity titles.

CtrlAltCassie is the online home of wonderful and colourful products by artist Cassie Daley.

Cassie currently stocks the fantastic Cooking the Rainbow recipe book. This original recipe book includes 50+ recipes that are customizable, quick, & delicious! Enjoy eating your way through these colorful recipes and pages, one bite at a time.

Also included when you purchase a cookbook: a bonus little booklet with my personal tips & tricks to taking prettier photos of your food!

Crimperbooks is the home of award-winning children’s stories and books by Ryan Cartwright.

"We love stories in our family and sometimes we’ll sit around making them up with each other. On one of these occasions I started to tell a story about a toy robot who came alive and escaped out of a window. The story got retold a few times and changed along the way. Eventually it became the beginnings of a book - Sugar the Robot and the race to save the Earth. With some encouragement from the rest of the family, I decided to turn the story into a “proper” book and make it available online.

A second novel Do Not Feed The Troll! was followed by ebooks and short-stories. But this is not about books, it’s about stories and sharing. I decided to make the stories downloadable for free and encourage others to share them.

So that’s what this is about - stories and sharing. I hope you enjoy it."

Lunate is a literary journal founded in 2019, and based in Manchester, UK.

A home for remarkable writing, Lunate was co-founded and edited by Gary Kaill and Hannah Clark. Their associate editor is Claire Carroll. They publish two editions each year.

Scarlett Gale is the author of His Secret Illuminations and His Sacred Incantations.

Long ago, under another name, she was the co-author of Needles and Artifice (Cooperative Press; 2012), featuring a rollicking romantic steampunk adventure novella and associated knitting patterns, of which she also designed several. She writes and produces fringe theatre plays based on B-movies, such as Bodacious Barbarian Babes vs. The Indigo Empress and Showgirls of Beast Island. She is a co-producer of the Alison-Bechdel-approved Bechdel Test Burlesque, which in 2017 was included in the Women and Gender Studies curriculum at the University of Oregon.

She lives in Seattle with her wife where she gardens, knits, reads, and drinks warm beverages. Unsurprisingly, she also has cats.

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror!

Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, The Dark Magazine is a great way for fans of dark fantasy and horror to get their teeth into new stories, discover new authors, and support the people who publish them.

WAYSTATION is an amateur magazine that seeks to discover, inspire, and publish emerging authors who are enthusiastic about the tradition of "space opera."

Space opera is a pulp genre of science fiction, known for grand, epic adventures, interstellar empires, and complex character relationships. Set against a vast cosmic backdrop, space operas explore themes of heroism, warfare and militarism, political intrigue, and occasionally elements of cosmic horror, as seen in the Aliens movies or fictional universes such as Warhammer 40k. Classic authors include C.L. Moore (Northwest of Earth stories) Isaac Asimov (Foundation series), E.E. 'Doc' Smith (Lensman series), Frank Herbert (Dune series), and Joe Haldeman (Forever War). These works captivate readers with thrilling journeys through the numberless stars, weaving human drama into the sublime vastness of the cosmos. Published by Spiral Tower Press.

WHETSTONE is an amateur magazine that seeks to discover, inspire, and publish emerging authors who are enthusiastic about the tradition of “pulp sword and sorcery.”

Writers in this tradition include (but are not limited to) the following: Robert E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, Michael Moorcock, Karl Edward Wagner, David C. Smith, and many more. “Pulp sword and sorcery” emphasizes active protagonists, supernatural menaces, and preindustrial (mostly ancient and medieval) settings. Some “pulp sword and sorcery” straddles the line between historical and fantasy fiction; at Whetstone, however, we emphatically prefer “secondary world settings,” other worlds liberated from the necessity of historical accuracy. Published by Spiral Tower Press.

The magazine will be on hiatus until 2025, but issues are still available to download for free.

Founded by horror author Antonia Rachel Ward in January 2021, Ghost Orchid Press is an independent publisher of horror, Gothic, and supernatural fiction based in Cambridgeshire, UK.

Ghost Orchid are dedicated to championing new and emerging authors in these increasingly popular, versatile genres.

Since its early roots, horror has been a genre dedicated to innovation and diverse voices. Now, in the 21st Century, we’re seeing a huge upsurge in popularity for the genre, particularly when it comes to traditionally marginalised voices. Ghost Orchid Press strives to tap into this progressive vein, publishing novels, novellas, and anthologies by authors from a wide range of backgrounds.

Low-tech Magazine underscores the potential of past and often forgotten technologies and how they can inform sustainable energy practices.

Low-tech Magazine was founded in November 2007. Since 2018, the magazine also runs on a solar powered server. The website is also available in Spanish, French, Dutch, German, and Polish. Low-tech Magazine publishes at most 12 well-researched stories per year.

In 2023, Low Tech also launched a thematic book series. These books open up Low-tech Magazine’s archive by theme rather than chronologically.

Between the Scanlines is a fortnightly fanzine launched in October 2023.

Inspired by 90s anime and video game fanzines, Between the Scanlines captures their spirit and passion for video games and media history. There are typically fourteen to eighteen pages in each A5 issue. 

There's a little bit of everything in each issue as they peek between the Scalines into retro gaming history, trivia, magazine covers, reviews and retrospectives, personal stories, and reader community contributions.

Issues are also available in black & white for printing at home.

Andromeda Spaceways is a quarterly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine. Australia’s home of awesome speculative fiction.

ASM publishes four digital issues per year packed with stories, interviews, and reviews. Occasionally, ASM also produces a print-only anthology of a year’s best stories.

The Continent is a weekly newspaper produced by African reporters, photographers, illustrators and editors.

It is designed to be read and shared on WhatsApp (and other social messaging platforms), and has become the continent's most widely distributed newspaper.​

The Continent is published by the All Protocol Observed, a registered non-profit based in South Africa. It was initially funded by the editorial team, but has since attracted donor and commercial funding. 

The Hooghly Review is a digital non-profit and free-access magazine of literature, culture & arts with the aim to publish creatives in all stages of their career.

Named and conceptualised by Tejaswinee Roychowdhury in July 2022, she invited fellow writer-poet and friend, Ankit Raj Ojha, onboard in October 2022. The two have since been editing the magazine, expanding and developing it, and building its foundations to humbly serve the literary community in the years to come.

C. M. Rosens is an author of dark, genre-bending speculative fiction, particularly Gothic horror with tentacles and eldritch family drama, with body horror as a recurring theme.

She is mainly to be found travelling between the hills of Wales and the plains of England, but loves visiting friends and family all over the world when she can. She has a PhD in a niche area of Medieval British Studies, and these days mostly applies her research skills in fiction rather than academia, which she enjoyed but doesn't miss.

Her work is heavily influenced by the histories, mythologies and folklore of places she grew up in and lived as an adult.

Ophelia Bell is the USA Today bestselling author of the award-winning Fate’s Fools series.

Ophelia loves a good bad-boy and especially strong women in her stories—women who aren’t apologetic about enjoying sex and bad boys who don’t mind being with a woman who’s in charge, at least on the surface, because pretty much anything goes in the bedroom. Ophelia grew up on a rural farm in North Carolina and now lives in Los Angeles with her own tattooed bad-boy husband and five attention-whoring cats.

Joan Westenberg is a technology writer, founder and creator.

Joan has been published by Wired, the AFR, The Next Web, TIME, and more. Through @Westenberg, she covers tech, economics and humans. As a creator, Joan helps technology companies market their platforms and tell better stories.

Frog God Games is a top-tier publisher of roleplaying games, adventures, and supplements for both modern and old school game systems.

Frog God Games is owned and operated by a partnership of creators and associates who all game just like you do — in many playstyles and with many rules systems. A deep and abiding love for the basic tenets of Original Fantasy Gaming (sometimes referred to as Old School Gaming) inspires everything they do.

Founded in 2020 by Brian Riggsbee, Retro Game Books' journey began with a spark of inspiration and a simple mission: to create unique, never-before-seen retro gaming themed books.

Their books are not mere pages; they are portals that transport you into the captivating history, mesmerizing art, and untold stories of classic games.

Retro Game Books has been featured by Polygon and their books have been enjoyed by gaming veterans such as Jeremy Parish and John Riggs. You’ll also discover Retro Game Books at gaming expos, pop-ups shops, and gaming podcasts.

Owen has a professional and educational background in architecture, and has spent the past ten years specialising in illustration, with his particular area of interest being architectural narrative. 

He is the author/illustrator of several graphic novels, including British Ice (Top Shelf Productions), Victory Point, The Hard Switch (Avery Hill Publishing), The Victory Motel, and Kiosk. The last two are available to buy digitally from this shop.

Owen lives in South London and is normally found drawing or exploring.

ECW is Entertainment. ECW is Culture. ECW is Writing.

Publishers Weekly recognizes ECW Press as one of the most diversified independent publishers in North America. ECW Press has published close to 1,000 books that are distributed throughout the English-speaking world and translated into dozens of languages.

ECW support and promote a vibrant backlist that includes poetry and fiction, pop-culture and political analysis, sports books, biography, and travel guides.

Joe Stone is a cartoonist and illustrator based in London.

As well as self-publishing his own work for over six years and appearing at various comic fairs, he’s run the WIP Comics group since 2017, was named as one of the Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ in 2019, organised two editions of the Hackney Comic + Zine Fair in 2019 and 2021, and has been featured in a variety of anthologies.

Atelier Hylia is a small group of artists working together to create a series of Legend of Zelda-themed master studies of historical artworks.

The goal: to try something new, learn new techniques, and support each other in our journeys as artists. We are so excited to show you all we have created together!

Debug is a quarterly publication designed to help independent game developers and publishers get their titles seen by a passionate and focused audience.

Each issue of Debug magazine gives the reader a complete view of the indie gaming community, featuring reviews and previews for modern consoles and PC, as well as retro consoles/computers, and mobiles. Debug is a professionally produced magazine with very high production values, created by a team with decades of experience in gaming journalism, having worked for some of the UK’s best-selling and most respected gaming magazines.

Air and Nothingness Press are based in Pittsburgh, PA, and publish fantasy and science fiction anthologies and story collections.

They have an extensive and interesting catalogue, but the site format does take som egetting used to. A&NP predominantly publish limited edition print books, but browse their collection to spot ebook editions.

Derek Alan Siddoway writes fast-paced fantasy with heart.

Most of his tales feature mythical critters of some variety. As a journeyman storyteller, he has over a dozen books under his belt, including the internationally bestselling Gryphon Riders Trilogy, Djinn Tamer, and Mana Beasts. Derek spends his free time wandering through the tall grass, working on a small, fourth-generation farm, adventuring with his wife, and celebrating small victories. He’s also a loyal but often disappointed fan of the University of Utah Utes and Minnesota Vikings.

His ebooks sometimes include extras, such as exclusive short stories.

Created by AlePresser & K.B. Spangler, Side Quested, the free-to-read webcomic.

To get you started, and support the creators, you can buy the downloadable versions of the Prologue and Chapter 1 from their shop.

Jon Rosenberg is an award-winning cartoonist from Westchester, NY.

Jon is the creator of Scenes From a Multiverse, Goats and more.

Established in February of 2021 by Jasen Bacon, HyphenPunk is a magazine that focuses on the human condition through the lens of the postmodern.

Cyberpunk, steampunk, dieselpunk, solarpunk, and other -punks are engines that allow an aspect of what it means to be alive to be examined in a microcosm. Sometimes that means high action, sometimes that means deep philosophy. It always means a great story.

Stories appear online twice a month, while single issues are available to buy direct.

Tule’s one goal is to publish fantastic stories by the best writers.

Tule want to delight their readers and satisfy their authors’ desire for creativity, freedom, and commercial success. Many of Tule's authors are from the traditional NY world of publishing, with an existing reader fan base.

Tule's books are the heart of their site, their business, and their passion. Tule Publishing have imprints to suit every mood and taste, and the authors they publish all have unique styles and terrific voices.

Fodongo is a Free Culture, Indie Comics zine project edited and put together by Emiliano Carrasco “Jectoons” for Jectoons.net.

The aim of the project is two-fold: to support independent comic artists and to advocate for and normalize the free sharing of culture, in the form of comics.

Free Culture refers to cultural works that have been “freed” by their authors, so that those who experience the works can participate in them.

Interzone publishes fiction and non-fiction from all over the planet.

Fantastika at its finest, delivered electronically every month.

Interzone was founded in 1982 by David Pringle, John Clute, Alan Dorey, Malcolm Edwards, Colin Greenland, Graham Jones, Roz Kaveney, and Simon Ounsley. It was published by TTA Press and edited by Andy Cox from 2004 to 2022 and is now published by MYY Press and edited by Gareth Jelley.

IZ Digital, the online sister-zine of Interzone magazine, publishes fiction and non-fiction from all over the world.

Becoming a member of the IZ Digital Ko-fi gives you exclusive EPUB editions of all new IZ Digital stories.

Supporting IZ Digital at any level helps the editor, Gareth Jelley, publish the work of more brilliant writers and artists from all over the planet.

After the Revolution is a 2022 novel by journalist and podcaster Robert Evans, and is available to download and read for free.

After the Revolution is set in North America in 2070, roughly twenty years after a Second American Civil War balkanized the United States into various nations. In the Republic of Texas, a failing Libertarian rump state, a Christian dominionist militia suddenly sweeps into power, disrupting the lives of our three protagonists.

Artyom Trakhanov is Siberian comic artist in Serbia.

Work includes Undertow, Turncoat, The 7 Deadly Sins, First Knife, and the DUNE Zine.

Headpress was founded in Manchester, England, in 1991, ostensibly to release a film by cult German director Jörg Buttgereit on VHS.

With revenue from the sales of that film (Der Todesking, limited to 500 copies), the publication of a magazine soon followed.

The book publishing arm of Headpress commenced in 1992 and continues to this day. Subject matter of Headpress books is wide-ranging and includes cult film, strange music, pulp literature, fanzines, conspiracy theories, sex and gender, occult and folklore, true crime, and pop culture in general.

Fieldmouse Press is a nonprofit publisher of comics and literature, based in Grass Valley, California.

Founded in 2019, Fieldmouse Press is committed to expanding the reach and appreciation of the comics arts. They are passionate about comics and their goal is to advance the medium through the publication of new and underrepresented voices.

Fieldmouse believe that comics should be a place for every story and every person.

Psychopomp is an indie publisher of otherworldly stories and rad, gothy essays.

Based in Vermont, this small press also publishes a little magazine about death you may have heard of called, The Deadlands.

Inner Worlds is a quarterly digital zine of speculative stories about our inner lives; our thoughts, our emotions, our perceptions, our dreams.

We aim to publish works which use elements from science fiction, fantasy, or horror to illuminate the different ways that we experience our selves and our world.

That might mean finding a metaphor to express a feeling, or a setting which reflects how your brain works sometimes, or turning a trope on its head to explore a different perspective.

Darling Bat make spooky-cute games and tools by Kona Goodhart.

Home of The Little Red Playbook for Thirsty Sword Lesbians, The Admirer Playbook for Thirsty Sword Lesbians, and Arcane Inversions games. I love the 'Powered by Lesbians' badges on the games.

Ní Chorra is the author of Elysian, a novel set in 2016 in Cork city, Ireland.

"Set in late 2016, Elysian is a stunning portrait of modern Ireland, told through the lens of a lifelong friendship. The author's use of vivid and evocative prose transports the reader to the streets of Cork city, capturing the spirit of a nation grappling with the aftermath of the economic crisis, environmental destruction, and societal change..."

Hannah Steenbock is a German writer of fantasy and science fiction.

Hannah uses both her native German and English as languages for her tales, as she loves English and tends to think in that language when plotting Fantasy.

After finishing university with a degree in English and Spanish, she lives and works in Kiel, the northernmost state capital of Germany. Her other pastimes include reading and posting on social media, strolling along beaches, talking with trees, and devouring as many stories as time allows.

Autistic Bookshop was built for autistic authors who want to self-publish their books and get them in front of readers.

The bookshop is also a self-publishing platform, founded and run by Ashley Lauren Spencer, and stocks fiction, non-fiction, and speciality titles for both adults and children on and about autism.

'A Reader's Ultimate Resource for Books by Autistic Authors'

The Merry Mushmen is the home of Knock!, the old-school tabletop fantasy roleplaying magazine.

KNOCK! is edited by Éric Nieudan and published by Olivier Revenu. Dubbed “an Adventure Gaming Bric-à-Brac and a Compendium of Miscellanea for Old School RPGs,” KNOCK! showcases breathtaking layouts, dazzling color, and a barrage of articles, essays, tables, rules, maps, monster stats, and adventures.

The DRM-free RPG bundle service, Bundle of Holding, says that

"Every overstuffed 200+-page issue features the most audacious designers in the Old School Revival."

and suggests you

"Keep these lavish ebooks close by for perusing, daydreaming, and prepping your next session."

Well worth a purchase for RPG fans.

Manifesto Press publishes working class history, socialist theory and the politics of class struggle. It is republican and anti-imperialist; secular and feminist; anti-fascist and anti-racist; committed to working class political power, popular sovereignty and progressive culture.

It has published half a dozen books on working class history and biographies of working class figures; another half dozen exposing war and imperialism, more on education, on the economy, on socialist theory, key texts from the women's movement and the fight against fascism.

Manifesto Press is constituted as a cooperative and invites people to become shareholders and help with the different facets of their work including evaluating projects, reading manuscripts and proof reading.

Founded in June 2010 by author J.M. Snyder, JMS Books is a 100% queer-owned publisher based in Virginia, USA.

A great shop to browse and buy DRM-free LGBTQ ebooks.

With a mission of uplifting author and creator voices from marginalized communities and the Global South, Android Press publishes science fiction, fantasy, and light horror specializing in climate fiction and the various -punk subgenres.

They love stories rooted in hope and optimism, as well as stories that hold up a mirror to our society, forcing us to reexamine our past and our values in order to move forward and build a better future.

Android Press founded Solarpunk Magazine, the bimonthly fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art publication that launched its first issue in January 2022.

The Archive of Our Own offers a noncommercial and nonprofit central hosting place for fanworks using open-source archiving software.

A fan-created, fan-run, nonprofit, noncommercial archive for transformative fanworks, like fanfiction, AO3 is a project of the Organization for Transformative Works and currently hosts more than 63,280 fandoms, 6,650,000 users, and 12,380,000 works.

Collected editions of the history of computer entertainment and digital culture by Jimmy Maher.

Jimmy Maher is compiling an historical chronicle of interactive entertainment, and has made most of the articles already published on the site available as ebooks. They're sorted by the year each volume covers.

Jimmy has also written a special Infocom omnibus ebook, covering the company’s history from beginning to end.

Lucent Dreaming, an independent magazine for emerging authors and artists worldwide.

Based in Cardiff, Lucent Dreaming publishes their magazine twice a year, filled with beautiful, strange and surreal short stories, poetry and artwork from contributors worlwide.

New Edge Sword & Sorcery is a short fiction magazine dedicated to the Sword & Sorcery sub-genre of Fantasy speculative fiction. Each issue features several original short stories each with their own B&W illustration, as well as non-fiction articles and interviews covering subject matter related to the past, present, and future of Sword & Sorcery.

New Edge takes the genre’s virtues of its outsider protagonists, thrilling energy, wondrous weirdness, and a large body of classic tales, then alloys inclusivity, mutual creator support, a positive fan community, and enthusiastic promotion of new works into the mix.

Founded by Mark Alan Miller, Encyclopocalypse sees the archiving of the written word as one of the oldest and most important practices in human history.

Encyclopocalypse was founded as a place where books can live on. From independent novels to literature published before the digital age, their goal is to create a home for every great book that hasn’t yet been heard.

"...to witness the death of an author's catalog by it being long out of print - and not digitized - is to witness a kind of true death."

Oil On Water Press is an imprint of Headpress, a long-standing publisher of nonfiction.

In a way, Oil On Water grew out of the Headpress submissions pile. In an interview for Writers magazine in 2021, publisher David Kerekes explained that not all Headpress books are necessarily Headpress books:

“We see a lot of submissions for books outside the Headpress remit (whatever that is!), which we found interesting, and which is how Oil On Water came about. The small slice of life memoirs that are more personal in approach [really began to draw me].

The Sorcerer's Catalogue is home to Shel Khan's digital books and art.

Shel Kahn is an artist whose work spans digital and tabletop games, comics, education, and community organizing. They have worked with a range of publishers on pen and paper, console, mobile and PC games; created fantasy and memoir comics; and they have presented and taught at professional conferences, highschools, colleges and universities.

The Hedgehog Poetry Press launched in October 2017, although their first publication was the magazine ‘A Restricted View From Under The Hedge’ which appeared in late March the following year.

The press is also home to the Cult of the Spiny Hog, their very own club for readers and writers of poetry. Hedgehog is a little bit of a co-operative, and whilst Cult members receive everything Hedgehog publish and free entry to all competitions, Cult member subs underwrite everything they do. There are only ever 100 members of the Cult, but without them there would be no Hedgehog Poetry Press.

Killtopia is a cyberpunk comic book universe created by author Dave Cook, and brought to life by an incredible line-up of artists, colourists, letterers and other collaborators.

Inspired by old school anime, Japanese action video games and more, Killtopia began with a five-book story arc that concluded in 2023. They're now expanding the universe of Neo Tokyo with sequels, anthologies, one-shots and more projects.

Former lawyer and New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Diane Capri, is now writing The Hunt for Reacher books, based on Lee Child's Jack Reacher.

Born in Alabama, Diane grew up in a small German-American farming town north of Detroit, where she lived a book-filled childhood. Diane is a snowbird, dividing her time between homes in Northern Michigan and Florida. She lives in perpetual summer. She’s married and loves dogs, writing, sunshine, warm temperatures, gourmet food, red wine, convertible cars and her very large extended family.

Diane Capri predominantly writes crime and mystery fiction, and her Reacher books are great for fans of Lee Child.

Compiled by Greg Wotton, The Library is a collection of materials of value to the serious student of Occultism.

These materials were edited and converted to PDF by Greg and others in order to ensure they remain available and in good editions. They continue to add materials as they are completed. All texts are public domain under International and Canadian copyright laws.

Horror author, David Moody, launched Infected Books in 2005.

David Moody has an unhealthy fascination with the end of the world. ‘People tend to just float along on the day-to-day and assume everything’s always going to stay the same,’ he says, ‘but that’s not the case. Sooner or later something’s going to happen to screw everything up. Whether it’s another plague epidemic, an asteroid hitting the planet, a despot kicking off a world war, climate change or the meltdown of the global economy, something’s going to get us eventually!’

Author of the Zombie trilogy, Autumn, a selection of David's ebooks are available to buy direct in DRM-free format from Infected Books.

Kapeo Press is the home of books by author C.R. Collins.

C.R. Collins is the author of the Tales of Ardonna fantasy series, and the sub-series, Tales of Ardonna: Woodpell.

The books are set in the same world over three distinct eras, and the author even provides a selection of maps on her website for readers to enjoy.

Scratch Comics was founded in April 2022 by Publisher and EIC Shane Chebsey.

Scratch Comics works with creators from every part of the comic industry and beyond to produce high quality comic books and graphic novels. It's important to Scratch that they work with both experienced professionals as well as new emerging artists and writers from all walks of life to provide newcomers with the opportunity to get their work published and be paid fairly.

Scratch is the home of crime series Hedrek, horror series Dracula The Return, and Claudia Christian's Dark Legacies sci-fi series.

Founded by Matt Blairstone, Tenebrous Press aims to drag the malleable Horror genre into Newer, Weirder territory with stories that are incisive, provocative, intelligent and terrifying; delivered by voices diverse and unsung.

Tenebrous welcome the esoteric; the unorthodox; the Weirdest of New Weird Horror.

Based in Canada's Rocky Mountains, Renegade Arts Entertainment publish comic books, graphic novels and audio books.

Their stories are from new voices as well as the very best of Canadian and international storytellers, and include horror, fantasy, adventure, gothic, drama, and titles for young readers. A stunningly wide range of comics, that also includes handy bundles!

Elaine M. Will is a cartoonist and illustrator from the wilds of Canada.

Elaine has been drawing since she could hold a pencil, and has been drawing comic books since she was 5, and is most well-known as the author of Look Straight Ahead, a graphic novel about a teen boy's struggle with mental illness. The book was very well received, and was nominated for a Joe Shuster Award in 2011. It was also the recipient of a 2012 Xeric Award, from the final grant cycle.

Elaine's comics work has also appeared in the anthologies Chilly Tales, Then It Was Dark, Bottoms Up, Built On Strange Ground, CORPUS, and Through The Labyrinths Of The Mind. Her illustration work has appeared in Broken Pencil, Verb, The Feathertale Review, Blunderbuss, This Magazine, and the Review of Journalism.

Elaine is currently making a graphic novel called The Last Band On Earth, about a noise rock band trapped in a semi-post-apocalyptic city run by demons (this may or may not be a thinly-veiled metaphor for depression).

Founded by Joseph Goodman in 2001, Goodman Games are based out of the San Francisco Bay area.

Goodman Games is your source for classic adventures! They're are best known for the popular Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game and associated adventures. Goodman Games also publishes popular titles such as Mutant Crawl Classics, Xcrawl Classics, Fifth Edition Fantasy, and the hit Original Adventures Reincarnated series.

Silver Sprocket is an independent publisher championing socially conscious and independently produced comic books, graphic novels, and related arts.

Originally a punk music label, Silver Sprocket transitioned to publishing comics in 2016. Since then, they've built a home for original, artist-owned work, including Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore, Catboy by Benji Nate, Be Kind, My Neighbor by Yugo Limbo, and American Cult edited by Robyn Chapman.

Quindrie Press is an award-winning independent comics publisher based in Edinburgh, Scotland, founded by comic creator Eve Greenwood in 2020.

Quindrie Press' focus is to provide creators with the opportunity to publish passion project comics that haven’t found their home anywhere else. They have a particular interest in helping marginalised and upcoming creators to publish their work.

Each month Quindire donate a portion of their PDF sales to a different charity or organisation dedicated to supporting marginalised communities in Scotland.

Morgana writes cozy mysteries featuring witches, psychics, ghosts, mermaids, (nice) vampires, and anything else that tickles her imagination.

Although Morgana is famous on the family group chat for her typos, her readers do not need to fear: witches make the best editors because they always run spell check.

An USA Today Bestselling author of more than 50 books, Morgana Best has the write stuff. Her books have landed on the Top 10 spot on Amazon and are beloved by readers in over 70 countries.

Black Josei Press is an award-winning indie comic book publishing company focused on celebrating comics by and for people of color from marginalized genders and sexualities.

Black Josei Press is heavily inspired by josei manga and primarily publishes comics for adults, but also have comics for all ages. They hope to change the comic landscape for the better by providing a space for creators like them to tell their stories.

Founded in 2018, Black Josei Press are based in Miami on the traditional land of the Tequesta, Seminole, and Taíno.

Time Bomb Comics Ltd is an award-winning comic publisher based in Birmingham, United Kingdom, and have been been telling great stories since 2007.

They're the home of Quantum, Brawler, Stephenson's Robot, Flintlock, Harker, and the much-loved Spectrum comic, based on many of Gerry Anderson's television series'.

Splice is a small press - Splice is an online review - Splice is an anthology

Every two years, UK small press, Splice, publish three collections of short stories to showcase the work of three outstanding writers. Each collection stands on its own, but with a shared aesthetic. Once the three collections have been released, the work of the three authors will be brought together in an anthology. We also publish a novel during this period.

The review is the steady pulse underlying the occasional output of the small press. New material usually goes live online every Monday and Wednesday, including at least one in-depth book review (around 2,000 words) and either another review or an interview with an author, translator, or editor.

At the end of each two-year period, the three authors showcased via the small press come together in anthology in which they “splice” their work with the work of another writer.

Splice exists to attract adventurous readers to the innovative and unconventional works of literature that exist outside the publishing mainstream — works that usually come into being from writers and publishers involved in Britain’s community of small presses.

Mina V. Esguerra writes contemporary romance, young adult, and new adult novellas.

Mina sells both individual ebooks and entire series. Her stories often include older protagonists who have lots to say about society’s problems, how they’ve been affected, and how they try to make things better.

Through her blog Publishing in Pajamas, she also documents her experiments in publishing. Mina is a resource speaker for the workshop series "Author at Once" for writers and publishers, and teaches #romanceclass for aspiring romance writers.

Shacklebound Books are a small press that publishes anthologies and collections in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres.

Publishing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction, anthologies and collections, most of their books have a darker bend to them.

DieDieBooks publishes books about scary movies written for horror fans by horror fans who approach their work from a smart, personal critical perspective.

Each DieDieBook is covers a different horror movie and is written by a different author, bringing a range of idiosyncratic worldviews and approachs to the material.

Whatever your favorite horror movies are, you would probably love to read a whole book about them. You might even want to write one. If you do, this press is for you.

tRaum Books is a queer micro press, publishing authors from around the world.

Their aim is to highlight trans and queer narratives and unusual narrative structures, through novels, novellas, short story collections, poetry, art books, mixed media and graphic novels.

They do not accept or use any AI-generated text or art for our books or covers.

Novae is a historical romance web & downloadable comic with a touch magic and a dash of astronomy.

By Jen and Kate, also known as Kaiju, the series chronicles the adventures of Sulvain, a sweet tempered necromancer and Raziol, a passionate 17th century astronomer. A connection forms between them and their relationship blooms, however when the body of a fellow astronomer is found on the steps of the Academy of Sciences, their lives are entangled in ways they could never foresee.

A gentle romance full of drama and adventure with moments that both tear and heal the heart.

When she's not drowning in spreadsheets and Zoom webcasts or bingewatching KDramas, Tara Frejas likes to write down the stories that fill her daydreams.

Self-publishing romance stories since 2015, Tara has so far written 13 books (including collaborations), all available in both print and digital formats. Her current dream, however, is to make coffee...for the cast and crew of the movie or TV series adaptation of her books.

"I write about people and things that I love, and about lives that I will never live—like I’m running out of time."

Jillian Dodd is a USA Today best-selling romance author.

She writes fun binge-able romance series with characters her readers fall in love with—from the boy next door in the That Boy series to the daughter of a famous actress in The Keatyn Chronicles to a spy who might save the world in the Spy Girl series. Her newest series include London Prep, a prep school series about a drama filled three-week exchange, and the Sex in the City-ish chick lit series, Kitty Valentine.

She is married to her college sweetheart, adores writing big fat happily ever afters, wears a lot of pink, buys way too many shoes, loves to travel, and is distracted by anything covered in glitter.

The Funambulist magazine hopes to provide a useful platform where activist/academic/practitioner voices can meet and build solidarities across geographical scales.

Through articles, interviews, artworks, and design projects, they are assembling an ongoing archive for anticolonial, antiracist, queer, and feminist struggles.

Feel-Good Fiction Books floods the world with fiction in which readers can feel a sense of belonging by seeing themselves in characters that grow and change through good times and bad.

Their books provide a refuge from the world as readers experience satisfying intimacy, emotional connection, and healing without explicit content.

You’ll find a place to belong with the big families in Liz Isaacson’s cowboy family sagas. Or Elana Johnson’s and Jessie Newton’s vast groups of friends – a found family. Donna Jeffries and Emmy Eugene likewise provide an escape and refuge for you without friendships, small towns, and more!

Lorri Moulton lives on a farm in Eastern Washington and writes romance, suspense, fantasy, mysteries, fairytales, and historical non-fiction.

Living in a lovely part of the country with five horses inspires many of Lorri's stories. Real life fairytales happen all the time. You just have to believe in the possibility...and look for magic in the most unexpected places.

Comic artist, Salgood Sam aka Max Douglas, grew up in downtown Toronto and now lives in Montreal with three cats and his wife.

Stories rendered in Ink wash and line are Sam's primary modes of expression, but he also uses a lot of pixels too. He dabbles in AV, digital photography and other things as well. Favourite themes include urban life, science & nature, theatre & dance, fantasy & sci fi, social issues & psychology, technology & engineering. And things he has not thought of doing before.

Past notable clients include IDW, Marvel Entertainment, DC Comics, Scholastic, and many more.

Shortwave Publishing is an independent small press based in the Pacific Northwest.

Founded in 2022 by Alan Lastufka, Shortwave offer a selection of original books, zines, and online stories with a focus on dark and speculative genre fiction.

Their mission is to work on interesting projects with interesting people. Their catalog may not be hyper-focused on any one genre or style, but they believe passionately in the authors and the work they publish.

Face the Night was the first full-length title published by Shortwave in March of 2022. A month later, Face the Night won the 2022 Eric Hoffer Award for Best Commercial Fiction.

Victoria Goddard is a writer of literary fantasy.

Interwoven series and standalone fantasy stories. Tales of friendship, fealty, adventure, and occasionally good government. For those who like a little philosophy with their swashbuckling, but care for characters most of all.

Victoria is a keen gardener, an inveterate book collector, and has a PhD in Medieval Studies (focusing on Dante and Boethius) from the University of Toronto. She currently lives in a cozy farmhouse in the Canadian Maritimes with three dogs, three cats, various poultry, and a wildly exuberant garden.

Rust & Moth is a literary journal featuring imaginative and engaging poetry.

Since 2008 Rust & Moth have dedicated themselves to discovering new writers and presenting their work alongside evocative graphic design. Their editors love both the vitality of electronic publication and the feeling of holding a quality print edition in hand.

Past digital issues are available to download for free.

Vivlio is a French-language e-reader manufacturer and ebookshop.

Vivlio stocks thousands of mainly French ebooks, but also some Italian and English titles, in all genres. The proprtion of DRM-free ebooks seems quite large considering the size of the shop.

Information about a title's format and DRM status can be found in the Détails tab of each book page.

Portland (and Cleveland!)'s most colorful, authentic, and empowering publishing house and distributor, Microcosm Publishing & Distribution is a vertically integrated publishing house that equips readers to make positive changes in their lives and in the world around them.

Microcosm emphasizes skill-building, showing hidden histories, and fostering creativity through challenging conventional publishing wisdom with books and zines about DIY skills, food, bicycling, gender, self-care, and social justice.

As well as selling paper books by other publishers, Microcosm's own publications are available to buy as DRM-free ebooks.

Born in the wagon of a travelin' show. Writer. Teacher. Brendan Halpin also answers to Seamus Cooper and Frank Dolan.

Brendan is the author of over twenty books for adults and young adults, including the Alex-Award Winning Donorboy, the comic cosmic horror novel The Mall of Cthulhu (writing as Seamus Cooper) and many more!

Terror awaits...

Cosmic Horror Monthly is a tome of tales, Lovecraftian, cosmic, and weird. Bold new horror delivered to your inbox or your mailbox.

Each issue is a combination of classic cosmic horror with bold new weird and a vintage look and feel. Fans should also explore The Crypt, CHM's archive of public domain cosmic horror tales, all in one place.

Formats: ePub, Mobi, PDF

Charco Press are publishers of award-winning literature from contemporary Latin American authors.

Charco Press focuses on finding outstanding contemporary Latin American literature and bringing it to new readers in the English-speaking world. They aim to act as a cultural and linguistic bridge for readers to be able to access a brand new world of fiction that has, until now, been missing from reading lists.

Deep Vellum are a non-profit publisher, founded in 2013 with the mission to bring the world into conversation through literature.

They are the heart and soul of their local literary community, and publish English-original books with a special focus on Dallas writers.

You now find fiction, poetry, nonfiction, photography, and their signature translated literature among their books. As of 2020, approximately half of their published books are international works and half are English-original material.

Dee-Zee Publications is the home of Dan Butcher's digital comics.

As well as the Vanguard webcomic, Dan also created Vyper. Vyper is a comic inspired by synthwave music and 80's movies and tv-series. Set in 1985 Los-Angeles, Vyper follows the adventures of Sloane Vyperini, a federal agent tasked with driving high-tech pacification vehicle codenamed: VYPER.

Rather than any Knight Rider comparisons, this is more like Street Hawk on four wheels!

Dark Matter is a print & digital publisher of dark sci-fi & horror.

While Dark Matter Magazine will end in November 2023, other publications from Dark Matter, such as their books, will continue under the Dark Matter Ink, and Dark Hart imprints.

Rebecca is a part-time speculative fiction writer and full-time squirrel watcher from South East London.

Her interests lie in poisonous plants and decaying cities. In the gloom, she finds her inspiration. She has stories in (or forthcoming with) Seize The Press, Interzone, Northern Gravy and poetry in Orion's Belt and Diet Milk Magazine.

In her shop, you can find Fleshpots, a collection of short stories, poetry and flash fiction. Between these pages find a funeral procession of 14 decadent tales.

Scout Comics' mission is to guide you through the vast world of multimedia, discovering exceptional talent and epic stories that will inspire you to explore.

Scout Comics develop and publish creator-owned comics. By consistently bringing exciting new, talented voices and their Intellectual Property to market, they've established themselves as a pipeline to major studios and producers for some the of best new characters, ripe for development in TV, Film, Digital, Mobile, VR, and video games.

The online lit magazine and bookshop, Ellipsis, stocks beautifully written fiction & creative nonfiction. 1,000 words or fewer, any genre.

Based in Birmingham, UK, Ellipsis love stories that make us forget where we are, stories that introduce us to people, places and things we’ve never seen before and stories that stick with us long after we leave them.

As well as being able to buy and download the magazine, you can also buy single author ebooks.

Cheri Baker in an author from Seattle Washington.

Cheri writes mysteries, thrillers, and more. And is the bestselling author of the Ellie Tappet Mysteries.

The website has a great First in Series page to help get you started.

Resistance is futile. Read great books.

Brain Jar Press, one of Australia’s scrappiest small presses, is devoted to publishing great fantasy, horror, science fiction, crime, and geeky non-fiction. Since their founding in 2017, they’ve published some of the best genre writers from Australia and beyond

qntm has been writing science fiction for most of this millennium.

His works start from elegant, deep hypotheticals and wind entire universes around them, pushing science, technology, logic and possibility to breaking point and far beyond.

Author Charles Stross states that Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories by qntm: "[D]elivers a refreshing dose of existential despair at the transhuman condition."

Malarkey Books is a small press based in the middle of nowhere.

Our mission is simple: publish good books. We don’t chase trends or cater to a specific niche. We just love books. We are not bound by genre, style, or investors. We are writers, publishing books that don’t fit the ever-narrowing mold of the Big 4 model.

The editors are Yousef K. Allouzi, DeMisty D. Bellinger, Alan Good, and Monica Wang.

Fusion Fragment is a speculative fiction magazine.

Originally founded by Cavan Terrill in 2007, it published nineteen issues online through 2013. Cavan re-launched the new-and-improved Fusion Fragment in 2020.

Issues are pay-what-you-want, including free, and more recently include two PDF formats to reduce the cost of printing at home.

GigaNotoSaurus is a webzine, edited by LaShawn Wanak, that publishes one longish fantasy or science fiction story each month.

Longish meaning longer than a short story, and shorter than a novel. The first story on the site, The Bleeding and the Bloodless by Ruth Nestvold, was published in 2010!

Founded in 2010, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is an open-access, researcher-led, peer-reviewed academic journal.

The journal aims to publish original and specialised contributions to the field of comics scholarship from multidisciplinary and media-specific perspectives. The Comics Grid promote innovative comics scholarship where the writing is energetic and theoretically and interpretively bold, and that presents specialised knowledge in accessible and engaging forms. It also considers submissions that explore the ways in which comics can be used for scholarly purposes. 

The journal has peer-reviewed and non peer-reviewed sections. All claims expressed in articles published by this journal are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers.

Wyrmworks Publishing is an RPG shop & publisher, and is 50% of Making It Better LLC, a husband and wife team dedicated to making the world better.

The other 50% is Mom Makes It All, dedicated to making the world happier and more beautiful with handmade crafts and gifts. And 100% of our focus extends to caring for our family and community.

By joining our noble cause, you shall unlock extraordinary rewards. Access exclusive materials in various formats, join us in sharing freely with those in need, and forge direct connections with our dedicated team.

Founded in 1683, Brill is a publishing house with a rich history and a strong international focus.

The company’s head office is in the Netherlands, with offices in Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia.

Brill’s publications focus on the Humanities and Social Sciences, International Law and selected areas in the Sciences. Brill publications also include several major imprints with a distinguished history of publishing high quality and successful titles.

They are an Open Access publisher, so their digital titles are available to download for free.

Beam stands for ebooks without hard DRM.

Beam in a German and German-language bookshop that stocks DRM-free ebooks in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, crime and many others.

Beam also provide a subscription service, so you'll never miss a new book in your favorite series.

Do you like Australian modern poetry? Australian country settings? Small town romance? Police procedurals? Spies? A little sci-fi or fantasy?

Jai Baidell and Cara Bruar are the pen names and "two sides of one slightly confused person". As Jai, they write about mysteries, romance, detectives and spies. As Cara, they write poems and fantasy adventures. You can find a selection of their books on their shop.

Sonia Sulaiman writes speculative fiction inspired by Palestinians folklore.

Her work has appeared in ArabLit Quarterly, Beladi, FIYAH, Lackington’s, and Seize the Press among other venues.

Her stories have been nominated for Pushcart, Lammy, Palestine Book, and Best New Weird awards. In her free time, Sonia is a First Reader for Strange Horizons.

Bad Hand Books bring you the best horror, dark fantasy, & crime fiction.

Owned & operated by Bram Stoker Award-winner Doug Murano.

Science Fiction and Fantasy from Wales.

Gwyllion is a non-profit, bi-annual genre fiction semiprozine which focuses on publishing science fiction, fantasy and horror from Wales.

They publish two online issues a year as well as a limited run of physical copies.

Eden Books is an erotica bookshop, launched by Robyn Crawford in 2019.

Initially funded through a Kickstarter campaign, Eden Books stocks titles across the Romance genre, and is dedicated to providing a safe, supportive, inclusive platform that gives authors of all genders, races, ages, or sexual orientation the opportunity to promote and sell their original stories within the romance and women’s fiction genres.

A collection of links to titles on permaculture and environmental restoration.

Also includes 12 educational pamplets by Bill Mollison, the co-founder of Permaculture.

"Earth Care Library is an educational webpage. It collects electronic resources together in one place, to make this material more accessible. With the exception of the 1981 PDC pamphlets, which the creators have given consent to duplicate, we do not store any of the files linked to on our site on any of our own servers. They are all hosted by non-affiliated third parties, and we share them here in good faith. We cannot accept any responsibility for copyright infringements committed by these third parties or their affiliates."

The Buckaroo Banzai and Pinky Caruthers of independent publishing.

Luna Station Press is on a mission to bring you a unique selection of speculative fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry, with a special focus on women writers. They also publish a short fiction magazine, Luna Station Quarterly, that forms the original foundation for the press.

Affinity joins the growing trend of companies publishing works of lesbian literature in the evolving ebook market and Print on demand.

Based in New Zealand Aotearoa, they're committed to producing quality, affordable works of fictional literature. Affinity is wholly owned by authors and the content of works reflect their collective writing vision.

Charsiew Space (Benjamin Chee) makes pixels and comics.

Their gorgeous pixellated illustration style lends itself to wonderful dynamic coics and RPG art.

Vida Cruz is a Filipina author of short fantasy and science fiction.

I don't normally add single-book bookshops, but this looks a bit special.

Beyond the Line of Trees: Stories is the first illustrated short story collection—with a foreword by Nikki Alfar—by British Science Fiction Association longlisted author Vida Cruz is full of fantastic tales and sweeping epics of love, loss, adventure, and history.

Gary Maloney is a comic writer, editor, and occasional columnist.

Gary's credits include as Writer on LENS, TURNING ROADS, MIXTAPE, THE AGENCY CASE FILES, and as Editor on DOWN BELOW & FRACTURED REALMS. He's also a contributor to the comic industry magazine, PanelxPanel.

You can find most of Gary's writing in books from Limit Break Comics, but other titles are available to buy direct or download for free from his own shop.

Founded in 2012 by Julie, Global Grey is an essential project to improve the quality and design of many Public Domain ebooks.

Julie has diligently formatted hundreds of ebooks, added new public domain artwork covers, and ensured consistent quality throughout, all in a mission to support readers. Other features include detailed categories, reading lists, and books by series.

You can support Julie's efforts by donating to the site, or even buying one of the fantastic curated collections.

Tony McMillen makes comic books as well as some books without pictures too.

He’s behind the heavy metal horror novel An Augmented Fourth published by Word Horde, the sci-fi fantasy graphic novel Lumen and now Serious Creatures; his comic book series about a teenage special fx artist working in Hollywood, riding the wave of practical effects that carried the blockbuster movie industry of the 70s, 80s and 90s.

Fantasy Magazine is a digital magazine focusing exclusively on the fantasy genre.

In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy—dark fantasy, contemporary urban tales, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, high fantasy, folktales…and anything and everything in between. Fantasy is entertainment for the intelligent genre reader—we publish stories of the fantastic that make us think, and tell us what it is to be human.

Formats: ePub, Mobi, PDF

Grimscribe Press is the fruition of editor/author Jon Padgett's longtime dream of creating a publication house dedicated to the work of Thomas Ligotti and the authors who have influenced and been influenced by him.

Vastarien is a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligotti as well as associated authors and ideas. Its spirit is captured by a key passage from Ligotti’s classic short story “Vastarien,” telling of a special book that embodies an impossible otherworld... "Nightmare Made Normal."

The journal includes nonfiction, literary horror fiction, poetry, artwork, and non-classifiable hybrid pieces. Public interest and support have proved to be intense and widespread.

Hivemill is Hiveworks' official store.

It features ebooks, books, prints, t-shirts and other merchandise designed by their talented members. Hiveworks is a creator-owned comics and graphic novel publisher focused on free to read webcomics. They publish comics like SMBC, Stand Still Stay Silent, Sister Claire and Namesake.

Shado -  See. Hear. Act. Do. -  is a lived-experience led community of artists, activists and journalists united in the fight for social justice.

shado is an online and print magazine born out of a frustration at the lack of space for people to take control of their own stories. We believe that those with lived experience of a topic or injustice are best placed to advocate for meaningful change within that space: shado is a platform for these people. We also didn't think there were enough platforms for different fields to work in collaboration towards social justice – so, with shado, we want to bring a network of people together to cultivate a culture-led system change.

GlobalComix is a digital comic reading and distribution platform that helps creators and publishers share and sell their comics, license them globally, and understand their readers on a deeper level.

As well as their excellent online reading service, GlobalComix also allow creators to sell complete books direct as PDF downloads.

GlobalComix host individual creators and indie publishers, such as TopCow, Image, Heavy Metal, TKO Studios, Valiant, Mad Cave Studios, and many more!

Many computer games at the digital game retailer, GOG, come with downloadable extras.

These vary from game to game, but usually include PDF manuals, booklets, maps, artbooks, tip sheets, and much more.

Keep track of your copatible GOG extras at Libreture!

One of Book Cave's best features is the ability to download hundreds of free ebooks in return for subscribing to author newsletters.

Sometimes authors offer full ebooks, sometimes free samples or novellas. But they're always free and DRM-free!

One of the best ways to discover new indie authors.

Kyle Starks is a two-time Eisner nominated comic creator from Southern Indiana, USA.

Kyle is likely best known as the longest tenured writer and occasional artist for Oni Press RICK AND MORTY comic. He was nominated for Eisners for Sexcastle and Rock Candy Mountain for best humor publication.

A comic artist and illustrator based in Bristol, UK, Joe creates enchanting comics.

With a limited range at the moment, you can currently buy A Seed Named Hope, Digby Is A Wizard, and Losing Sleep, all at a price of your choice.

Fans of Brandon Sanderson will love buying direct from the fantasy author's own bookshop, Dragonsteel.

With a great opening selection of novella's novels, and graphic novels, including Dawnshard, Dragonsteel is the place to keep an eye on for the opportunity to buy Brandon's award-winning titles.

Originally founded in 2013 to promote voices from the Rust Belt, Belt Publishing have expanded their focus to include smart narrative and serious nonfiction on any topic, as well as commercial fiction with a regional foothold. Belt also publish a number of ongoing series', including neighborhood guidebooks, city anthologies, and their 50 Maps of American cities.

ShortBox Comics Fair is a unique and innovative digital comics fair, where every exhibiting artist debuts a brand-new comic!

Opening again in October 2023!

The aim of the fair is to serve as both a creative impetus for artists to make something new, and to deliver an exciting array of fresh, independent comics, all gathered in one place.

ShortBox Comics Fair is an accessible, comics-focused event: artists and comics readers can participate from anywhere in the world (no travel, no con-crud, no lugging suitcases full of comics back and forth!).

The fair takes place annually throughout October. Exhibiting artists retain full ownership/rights of their comics and receive 100% of sales (minus payment processing fees).

Laterpress is an online reading service where authors publish directly to–and make money directly from–readers via their own branded website.

Readers can read (and pay for) books chapter-by-chapter or as completed stories, and even subscribe to authors to get everything the author publishes. Authors keep 95% of their income, as well as the ability to export their Laterpress mailing list to add to their newsletter, and get involved with how Laterpress is run through the Workign Group.

Laterpress has recently launched direct ebook sales of published stories, meaning readers can download chapters or books they've bought to their e-readers, or other favourite device, DRM-free of course.

Dauntless Stories strive to live up to their motto: "Be Brave. Be bold. Be DAUNTLESS!"

Dauntless is not just an ordinary comics publisher, but a STORIES publisher. They bring you books in all new formats that make it easy for new readers to find their kind of story. At the forefront of all their stories is the graphic novella! These are 50-96 page full length standalone stories packed with a series of extras including page layouts, break-downs, and more.

Grace & Victory is a hobby publishing company, started by two writers who love publishing too much to have it as their day job.

Based in Canada, and created by Victoria Feistner and Grace Seybold, Grace & Victory have publish unique-looking books, including a number of anthologies.

Selcouth Station is a small press, founded by Haley Jenkins, and dedicated to supporting and promoting the work of indie artists, writers, gamers and any other creative entrepreneurs who want to get their work out there, both online and in print.

They've published short stories, reviews, interviews and poetry, with dreams of broadening to all sorts of mediums.

Formats: Unknown

Between the Lines is a social movement press founded in 1977. They publish nonfiction books that expose and challenge oppression in our society.

Between the Lines aim to amplify the struggles of Black, Indigenous, and racialized communities; migrants; women; queer folks; and working-class people. BTL is proudly left-wing and the books they publish reflect their activist roots and commitment to social justice struggles. BTL authors are academics, journalists, artists, and activists—all BTL authors hope their books will spark political and social change.

Since 2016, J-Novel Club has been releasing some of the best light novel content Japan has to offer.

As well as their existing streaming Manga content and light novels, J-Novel Club now sell complete DRM-free manga.

Their Premium ebooks are EPUB3 ebooks only available for purchase directly through their website. These ebooks have higher quality images than the ones you can download on other stores, and you can convert them to other formats and save them to any device you own. They are not available anywhere else, and also usually have bonus content, like special illustrations, translator notes sections, extra short stories, or textless illustrations, depending on the title and availability.

Inspired Quill aims to be the UK’s best small publisher as a traditional press dedicated to quality literature, skills development, and social/environmental causes.

They stock Crime & Thriller, Dystopian, Fantasy, Literary, Sci-Fi, Steampunk, Short Stories, Non-Fiction, LGBT and more.

Michael R. Underwood is the author of Geekomancy, Celebromancy, and Attack the Geek.

By day, he's the North American Sales & Marketing Manager for Angry Robot Books. Mike grew up devouring stories in all forms, from comics to video games, tabletop RPGs, movies, and books. Always books.

Formats: unknown

Star Fruit Books is a US-based manga publisher.

With over twenty titles in stock from a huge range of authors, and more arriving all the time, Star Fruit are a growing English language shop in a massively popular industry. They also provide a way for manga fans to suggest titles they'd like to see stocked.

Alice & Books provides free public domain or open license books for download.

You'll find the best classics books in the human history, for free and legal download. Alice & Books' main objective is to promote culture and distribute the great classics of humanity in a visual, orderly and simple way. All ebooks are available for free and easy download without registration.

A great feature is their collections, such as Movies based on books, and Pulitzer Prize Winning Novels.

Gustaffo Vargas is a Peruvian comic book artist and writer based in Edinburgh, UK.​

He enjoys working on all kinds of stories, especially science fiction, fantasy and horror. Besides producing sequential comic art he also does illustration art, such as comic covers, pin-ups, editorial art. He also works on character, creature and set designs.

Since 2017 he’s been self-publishing his Peruvian Cyberpunk comics PUNO, MANU, L1MA & TRUJILLO. Where he explores Pre-Columbian culture & southamerican societies, artificial intelligence and cybernetics in dystopian worlds. MANU won the 2019 Best UK Independent Comic of the Year. He’s working on his fifth Peruvian Cyberpunk book: PILCUYO. He’s a member of the SkrawlLordz.

Ghost Moth Press are a small independent press based in central Scotland.

Independent publisher of weird and beautiful fantasy, sf, and horror fiction. They specialise in speculative works from diverse voices and love the liminal, numinous, and the “unsellable”.

Nathan an anarchic author and trainee counsellor based in Lincolnshire, UK.

He writes works of the strange, bizarre, countercultural, and eccentric, all copyleft, free to remix, with a pay-what-you-feel price down to £0 (life is hard enough as it is without accessibility).

Writer and artist Edward Ficklin (he/him) focuses on illustration and visual storytelling using traditional media. He loves exploring the many facets of gay identity and representation in his stories and images.

His comics have been published by Snowyworks/Indie Comix Dispatch, Outlet Comics, and true to his queer indie heart, himself. His paintings appear in volumes 5 and 6 of the Doable Guys annual anthology, Raw Meat Collective’s Shower with Affection, vol 2, and and various DIY shows in the NYC area.

He lives and works on the unceded Lenape territory now called New York City.

NSFW

Based in Scotland and founded in 2015 by Simon Birks & Marielle Bouleau, Blue Fox Comics has rapidly grown to become a publisher of distinct, high-quality, character driven genre comics.

From slice of life, through sci-fi, fantasy and horror, they have titles to suit everyone of all ages.

Blue Fox also run a comic subscription service, including a monthly digital tier.

Vault publishes original, creator-owned science fiction, fantasy, and horror comics and graphic novels, from both emerging and established creators.

Founded in 2016 by Damian Wassel (CEO), Adrian Wassel (CCO), Nathan Gooden (Art Director), and Damian Wassel, Sr. (Co-founder), Vault is a closely-held privately-owned company. Vault is home to Alien Bounty Hunter, Heathen, Money Shot, These Savage Shores, and many more...

AfterLight Comics is an independent horror comic publisher based in Wales. Established by writer Joseph Oliveira in 2018.

They've published over 25 horror comics including the folk-horror series Wendigo Wood, supernatural horror Ghost Island, psychological horror Stay Awake, Rise of the Goatman and more...

They hold the candlelight for all of your horror comic reading needs.

AfterLight have also funded and fulfilled 25 Kickstarters to date!

Limit Break Comics is a comic collective that planted its roots in Dublin.

Its members include: Paul Carroll, Gareth Luby, Gary Moloney and Seamus Kavanagh. The group specialises in genre fiction comics.

As a collective, Limit Break engages in programming at events, crowdfunding campaigns, and the publishing of comics. It was awarded Best Publisher in the 2021 ICN Awards, and nominated as Best Publisher in the European Science Fiction Society Hall of Fame Awards in 2023.

Its titles include Meouch from Gareth Luby and Paul Carroll, and the anthologies Mixtape, Plexus and Life & Death from writers Gary Moloney and Paul Carroll in collaboration with creators from around the globe.

Founded in 2003 by the husband-and-wife team Adam and Tonya Engstm Take Control publishes technology help books.

Take Control Books is now owned by the most prolific Take Control author, Joe Kissell, and publishes highly practical ebooks, mainly on Mac and Apple products. They cover much more detail than a magazine article but are shorter, more focused, and more timely than a typical printed book.

Verve Poetry Press is a prize-winning Birmingham based publisher dedicated to promoting and showcasing Birmingham and Midlands poetic talent in colourful and exciting ways.

Co-founded by Stuart Bartholomew and Amerah Saleh, the press works hard to publish poets from all corners of Birmingham – poets that represent the city’s varied and energetic qualities and are able to communicate its many poetic stories. While their horizons have expanded beyond Birmingham more recently, there will always be a place for excellent poets from their home city at Verve!

Hexagon is an online magazine created to take readers to fantastic worlds and to meet incredible characters.

Hexagon specialize in the weird, the wondrous, and the whimsical, and represents a diverse community of authors and artists who are passionate about short form speculative fiction. They currently accept both English and French prose and poetry.

Each issue is available to download for free.

Kyle is an illustrator, production designer and background painter working in advertising and animation.

His own comics for sale include The Hamburger Prince, and the two volumes of RPG Friends.

Kyle lives in Brooklyn, NY with his two sweet and beautiful cats.

Kaiten Books is a localization and publishing company driven to bring the best manga Japan has to offer to the English-speaking fans of the world!

The name is based off the famous sushi-go-round restaurants in Japan (called “kaiten-zushi”) and Kaiten's goal is to bring you as much variety in their releases as you would find on the menu in the finest Tokyo sushi bars.

The founders of Kaiten started the company as fans of manga. Now, they passionately work alongside the most premium talents in the localization industry to make sure each release is the highest quality it can be.

Tim Bird a cartoonist living in south London.

Tim has published a number of comics through Avery Hill Publishing as well as creating self-published zines and contributed work to a diverse range of anthologies. In his comics, Tim is interested in exploring the history, mythology and memories contained within the landscapes that surround him.

Winner Best Comic at the 2015 British Comic Awards for Grey Area – From The City To The Sea.

Meerkat Press is an independent press committed to publishing irresistible, unforgettable prose and poetry.

Their books range from literary to genre fiction with quality the common denominator.

Meerkat Press books have won or been finalists for the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Aurealis Award, the Australian Shadows Award, the Norma K. Hemming Award, the Ditmar Award, the ACT Writers Award, the Foreword Indies Award, the IPPY Award, and the Benjamin Franklin Award.

Neon Books is a tiny literary magazine and chapbook press, based in Edinburgh.

They're interested in playful & experimental literature, slipsteam and surrealist writing, and innovative ways of sharing stories.

They’re also keen to approach publishing differently by using plain language contracts, they welcome reprints, sell digital editions on a pay-what-you-want basis, and create fun and interesting (paid) opportunities for creators.

Sarah Gordon is an artist and printmaker living in the sprawling beast that is London. She spends a lot of time making comics.

The Guardian once dubbed Sarah's work ‘disturbing’. ;)

"This book is just soooooooooooo good!I have taken it upon myself to brand Sarah Gordon's folk horror comics as the new sub-genre of Graphic Melancholy." - Review of Vicious Creatures - Andy Oliver at Broken Frontier

Founded by Shawn Speakman, Grim Oak Press publishes science fiction & fantasy tales.

Their ebooks are mainly anthologies, from authors including Terry Brooks, Patrick Rothfuss, Carrie Vaughn, Jacqueline Carey, R.A. Salvatore, Naomi Novik, Lev Grossman, and many more.

Wendy Xu is the co-creator of MOONCAKES and the creator of TIDESONG!

Wendy's work has been featured on Catapult, Barnes & Noble Sci-fi/Fantasy Blog, and Tor.com, among other places.

Wyldblood's aim is to publish high quality speculative and literary fiction.

You’ll see novels, magazines and anthologies with the Wyldblood logo, drawn from a diverse range of authors and illustrators. They publish the best new talent, established authors and some well loved classics. Six times a year Wyldblood Magazine showcases a clutch of new science fiction and fantasy stories, the best of which find their way into Wyldblood's ‘Best of’ anthologies.

The horror comics of artist Douglas Noble.

Making comics of unfriendly romance and geographic terror.

A Pocket Chiller sees new nightmares and strange visions from a world next to yours. Who can say what will be next?

A collection of horror comics by Douglas Noble, Chris Reynolds, Claire Napier, Mark Stafford, Fraser Geesin, Robert Wells, and more...

Also available to buy at Itch.io.

404 Ink was founded by Heather McDaid & Laura Jones in 2016 with the view that publishing could be a little louder and a little more fun. We still feel that way today.

Their goal is to support new and emerging writers’ careers, and believe in quality over quantity. That is, not publishing to fill a schedule but publishing because that book truly needs to be read.

Not all titles are available as ebooks.

Jembefola: African Soul & Story, created by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, is the place to read ebooks and listen to audiobooks from Africans and the African Diaspora.

Ekpeki hosts free ebooks of both Bridging Worlds: Global Conversations on Creating Pan-African Speculative Literature In A Pandemic, and The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021) on Jembefola Press to ensure they are available for readers after Amazon previously closed his acount and withheld royalties for authors.

Emerald Dragon Tales is home to the String-Along, Mercedes Masterson Detective Stories, and other tales.

The String-Along project is a collaborative effort where multiple authors, in locations around the globe, come together to tell a singular story. Sometimes not knowing where to go with a story until the previous author in rotation provides a chapter update.

Lili Saintcrow was born in New Mexico, fell in love with writing during second grade, and has continued obsessively ever since.

She currently resides in the rainy Pacific Northwest with her children, dogs, cat, and a library for wayward texts.

Lilith writes in a range of genres, including science fiction & fantasy, paranormal romance, alt-historical fantasy, romantic suspense humor, and more.

Bottlecap Press is a publishing company founded in 2014, best known for its poetry chapbooks and full lengths.

Their books have been showcased in Dazed, Forbes, New York Magazine, The New York Times, NME, Nylon, Poets & Writers, Vogue, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, and The Studio Museum in Harlem, among others. Bottlecap authors have performed at Art Basel, SXSW, TED, and more, and have received awards, grants, and critical acclaim.

Formats: PDF

Founded by Alex Ebenstein, Dread Stone Press is an independent publisher based in Michigan.

They make no bones about their goal to publish the best in horror, but they also strive to specifically amplify fresh voices in horror. While they love all kinds of dark speculative fiction, as the name suggests, their tastes tend toward horror stories that seep dread.

Steven Hoefer was born on a farm and lives in the city ( Las Vegas, Nevada, to be precise). He makes things with this imagination and his hands. When writing doesn't engage his hands enough he invents whimsical—and occasionally useful—gadgets, and shares them with the world. Things he's created have been seen in Make, BoingBoing, Popular Science and elsewhere.

Steven's Embassy science fiction series introduces us to junior ambassador Benjamin Taylor, who finds himself having to keep things peaceful while they discover why forty-eight extraterrestrial ships appeared in Earth orbit two years ago...

A selection of digital works by critically-acclaimed creator, Jamie Me.

Hailing from Leeds, UK, Jamie is the creator of the Queen, START AGAIN and IRL comic books, as well as co-creator of Fabled Four!

Discover a new comic universe today!

Arcadia Page is best known for her book, Idealist Dreams: How I Learned to Plan as an INFP and her finished webcomic, Mascara.

She also writes articles that encourage sensitive, creative, and intuitive individuals to understand themselves and utilize the best of their abilities.

Established in 2014, King Shot Press is a radical publishing house that’s flavored kinda like a blend of ‘80s hardcore records, goth existentialism, alt rap, and monster movies.

Their retro paperback-look covers are awesome!

Kodeco (previously RayWenderlich.com) is a community site focused on creating high quality programming tutorials.

Thousands of developers and designers of all backgrounds, from all over the world, come to teach and learn.

Their goal is to create an environment where talented developers and teachers can make a living through their work, or advance their career by being recognized as an expert.

James Coglan is a software developer based in London.

He has over a decade of experience in software development, mostly in Ruby and JavaScript, and is the author of numerous open source libraries for these platforms.

James' ebboks include: Building Git and JavaScript Testing Recipes.

lore is a publisher focused on making modern computer science accessible to working programmers, students, and researchers.

lore is being built by Chris Allen, a co-author of Haskell Programming from first principles, and is focussed on bringing the pedagogical methods and process that gave birth to the Haskell Book to more topics and fields.

InformIT is your one-stop technology learning resource.

InformIT stock ebooks from prublisher such as Addison-Wesley, Cisco Press, Microsoft Press, and Pearson IT Certification, among others.

Colin Craker is a comic artist, illustrator, and writer from Ireland.

Colin's art often revolves around character design, poster design, or sequential comic book art. And he has a deep love for everything comic books. Colin is the creator of The Agency Case Files series of comics.

Jennie (aka. Comicatrix) is a Swedish-born, UK-dwelling comic creator who loves handling traditional media such as watercolour, gouache, ink and pencil.

She's currently working full-time in the indie-comic scene. Some of her own series' include Skal, and By Man & Angels.

Spinifex Press was established in March 1991 by Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein.

Nearly 30 years later and with well over 200 titles in print and most available as ebooks, Spinifex Press continues to produce award-winning, innovative and controversial feminist books.

THE SOLAR GRID is an ambitious graphic novel by Ganzeer that explores the relationship between industrialism, enviornmentalism, colonialism, and race-relations on a spacefaring scale.

“The Solar Grid is an exhilarating and important slab of sci-fi comix.”

Nyx Publishing are a small independent publisher based in Sheffield, United Kingdom.

They specialise in genre fiction, particularly fantasy, science-fiction, and horror (and it’s pretty much all queer).

Nyx Publishing's goal is to bring exciting speculative fiction to readers, focussing on under-represented voices while retaining the tropes we all love.

How can a comic be as much of a surprise to the artists making it as it is to its readers?

What they did: 3 artists. They each choose 8 random subjects. Mix them all up and take back 8 per artist. They each write a story in secret that must include all 8 no matter what they are... The artists are randomly assigned each other's stories to illustrate.

They work in isolation and no one sees the results until completed. Now, we see it too. Our Idiot Corpse.

BuySmallPress is an online comic selling platform.

This UK-based business hosts over 80 individual shops run by comic creators and small publishers, and started hosting digital comics in November 2020.

"Every product is sold via the publisher themselves. By purchasing from this site you are helping small and independent press grow and support your favourite creators at the same time."

The best way to discover comics through the site may be to browse the Store listings.

Based in Glasgow, Dockyard Press publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and political broadsides.

Dockyard Press publishes books, not authors. We’re about literature, not celebrities or sycophants. Established in 2019, with the publication of Wrecked, the latest in Scottish author Tony Black’s Gus Dury series, and Whoop! Whoop!, a juggalo noir by American author Icy Thug Nutz, and a reprint of the back catalogues of Scottish author Barry Graham and American author Bart Lessard, and the work of American poet and artist daishin stephenson.

Dockyard Press’s political publications favour socialism, Scottish Independence, and not destroying the planet. And they boycott Amazon, and think you should too.

Paul Millerd, author of The Pathless Path:

"...left a path that made sense in 2017, and have been slowly crafting a much better path, an infinite game I want to keep playing. I don't have a "quit your job" pitch but I do hope you'll join my "conversation" exploring how we relate to work in a world still relying on scripts from the 1950s."

He works on hacking a life as a digital nomad, and helping people navigate life beyond the default path. His shop includes books, worksheets, templates and resources.

Outland Entertainment is a publisher, located in Kansas City, Missouri, with a focus in fiction, comics, original graphic novels, and games.

Beginning in 2008 as a creative services house, they decided to take all their years of experience developing projects for clients and plunged into publishing their own books and games in 2014. With a deep passion for trans-media, the majority of thir projects are planned to be released in different media, comics, graphic novels, games, and fiction as well.

Northodox Press is a publisher catering to readers of crime fiction with the authentic voice of Northern England.

If you're exhausted by a book market oversaturated with stories of a London-centric Britain or the cosy-crime of the Cotswolds, look no further.

In the digital age, we're no longer confined by the traditional borders of publishing. Northern voices deserve to be heard, our stories need to be present.

Established in 2019, Madness Heart Press are so much more than just an online book store!

Madness Heart Press is a small indie horror publisher, who look for authors and works that won’t be published elsewhere.

They gladly consider, Splatterpunk, Extreme Horror, Bizarro, Poetry, and even stage plays. With over 30 books published to date, their goal is to publish the things they love regardless of commercial viability.

Haunt Publishing was founded in 2018 and is an independent publisher of Gothic, horror and dark fiction in all formats.

Dedicated to exploring both traditional and contemporary Gothic and horror literature, Haunt holds a flickering candle to global and underrepresented voices.

Their single current ebook is an anthology of gothic storytelling from Scotland.

Kit Rocha is the pseudonym for co-writing team Donna Herren and Bree Bridges. After penning dozens of paranormal novels, novellas and stories as Moira Rogers, they branched out into gritty, sexy dystopian romance.

The Beyond series has appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists, has been nominated for best erotic romance in the RT Reviewer’s Choice award five times, and won in 2013 and 2015.

First published in 2007, Flash Fiction Online is an online professional ezine.

It celebrates this unique form of writing by presenting its readers with brief, beautiful, and dynamic flash fiction — complete stories told in 500-1000 words — across a range of speculative and literary genres.

Bold. Brief. Beautiful. Fiction in Fewer Words.

Buy individual monthly issues direct, or subscribe through Weightless Books. They publish a new story every Friday and ebooks of monthly issues are available on the 1st of the month.

The Deadlands is a new monthly speculative fiction magazine.

We will publish short stories, poems, and essays about the other realms, of the ends we face here, and the beginnings we find elsewhere. It will be a journey into the unknown, to meet those who live there still, even though they may be dead. Death is a journey we all will take, but we’d like to peek at the map before we go.

Hot Tree Publishing is a romance publisher and bookshop.

Hot Tree's over 140 titles include books in contemporary, gay, historical, and fantasy romance. They also have a handy Look Inside feature!

Saqi Books is a leading independent publisher of trade and academic books on the Middle East and North Africa.

For over three decades, they have offered an independent platform for writers and artists from around the world, releasing cutting-edge, ground-breaking works including The Crusades through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf, Beyond the Veil by Fatema Mernissi, Black Britain: A Photographic History by Paul Gilroy and The White Family by Maggie Gee.

They also bring out in English translation the best in new and classic Arabic literature, including works by Naguib Mahfouz, Mahmoud Darwish, Adonis and Nawal El Saadawi.

Mindful Productivity Library, from the mental-health platform, Ness Labs.

Your mind is your most precious asset. Ness Labs is a virtual gym for the mind offering neuroscience-based content, community, and coaching. Their library is a collection of thematic ebooks to explore related articles about mindful productivity. You can read the articles for free via the blog, or save time by getting comprehensive ebooks with the best content around a specific theme.

The Cloudscape Comics Society is a non-profit comics organization based in British Columbia dedicated to publishing BC graphic novels and fostering the local comics community.

As a far-reaching charity, Cloudscape has published over 25 graphic novels and anthologies, spearheaded comic book classes and workshops for the public, run special events and talks on the medium, created public artworks, and run numerous other activities that engage the public within the fascinating world of comics.

Stark Holborn is the author of Nunslinger – the first ever digital serial published by Hodder & Stoughton – as well as the novella Triggernometry and the upcoming SF-western, Ten Low.

As well as writing about westerns for Pornokitsch and Screen Queens, Stark works as a games writer for clients like the BBC, Cartoon Network and Adult Swim. Stark is currently a lead writer on the SF-noir detective game Shadows of Doubt.

Changeling Press publishes Contemporary, Sci-Fi Futuristic, and Paranormal Romance in digital format.

Also home to the Changeling Inside ezine

Death’s Head Press is the brain child of horror obsessed friends, Jarod Barbee (CEO) and Patrick C. Harrison III (Editor-in-Chief).

Jarod and Patrick look to provide the world with quality dark fiction anthologies, novels, and collections. The “dark fiction” they publish will include, but is not limited to, horror, splatterpunk, bizarro, dark erotica, dark sci-fi/fantasy, psychological thrillers, and others.

Read your way to madness!

Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination brings writers, artists and other creative thinkers into collaboration with scientists, engineers and technologists to reignite humanity’s grand ambitions for innovation and discovery.

The center serves as a network hub for audacious moonshot ideas and a cultural engine for thoughtful optimism. We provide a space for productive collaboration between the humanities and the sciences, bring human narratives to scientific questions, and explore the full social implications of cutting-edge research.

Our projects have been supported by Intel Corporation, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the World Bank, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and The John Templeton Foundation.

Founded in 2014 by R. Lee Fitzsimmons, the mission of Desert Palm Press is to publish stories that accurately and respectfully reflect the lives of the LGBTQ+ community.

Their publication list covers lesbian fiction of many genres, and in the future will also include non-fiction.

Mojo Org is a non-profit association that works with multidisciplinary repertoires filtered by attentive curatorship, creating and transforming content - classic and contemporary; academic and popular - through processes of Participatory Culture and Intercultural Communication.

Their current range of ebooks consist of re-released translated classics, to go along with their beautiful hardback special edition counterparts.

An interesting project to keep an eye on!

Bloomsbury Publishing is a leading independent publishing house, established in 1986.

Its authors have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes, and it is the originating publisher and custodian of the Harry Potter series.

Also, for magic fans, Bloomsbury stocks tonnes of Dennis Wheatley books.

Toby Weston is a British author and technologist. His first novel Singularity’s Children: Denial was published by LobsterBooks in 2016.

Toby focuses on the genre of hard science fiction, exploring dystopian, utopian and metaphysical themes. His work weaves action with philosophy. His books are grounded in science, but he is prepared to take excursions into the fantastic—exploring artificial intelligence, animal consciousness, quantum ontology, and Vedic mysticism.

Lou Yardley is an independent horror author from the UK.

Lou's tales are steeped in gore as much as possible, as Lou loves when things get messy. Her latest four books are available to buy direct.

Lou also hosts the Cryptids, Crypts and Coffee Podcast.

Among other properties Steve Savile has written for Doctor Who, Torchwood, Primeval,Stargate, Warhammer, Slaine, Fireborn, Pathfinder, Arkham Horror, and Rogue Angel.

He won the International Media Association of Tie-In Writers award for his novel, SHADOW OF THE JAGUAR, and the inaugural Lifeboat to the Stars award for TAU CETI (co-authored with International Bestselling novelist Kevin J. Anderson).

Writing as Matt Langley his young adult novel BLACK FLAG was a finalist for the People’s Book Prize 2015.

Interlude Press is an award-winning boutique publisher of LGBTQ general and romantic fiction.

Veterans in the fields of publishing, technology, and media founded Interlude Press in 2014 to feature novels, novellas, and short form fiction. Together with their young adult imprint, Duet Books, which launched in 2015, their publications feature more than 70 original titles.

Artyom Trakhanov is a Siberian-born artist residing in St. Petersburg.

After his North American comics debut with Image's Undertow, Artyom worked on titles like Turncoat and The 7 Deadly Sins.

Artyom spends his nonexistent free time on SLAVIC NIHILISM, a creator-owned anthology that's published both in Russian and English.

Phillip Sevy began his comics career with "Heartless Dark" a weekly webcomic he wrote, penciled, inked, and colored.

At its conclusion, Phillip attended the Savannah College of Art and Design where he got his MFA in Sequential Art. He was named a runner-up in the 2014 Top Cow Talent Hunt competition.

For Top Cow, he’s drawn The Freeze, Magdalena, Athena IX, Poseidon IX, The Tithe vol 2 as well as contributing to Witchblade 185 (the final issue of the landmark series).

Phillip is most known for his work on Dark Horse’s Tomb Raider series, which he’s drawn 16 issues of.

Phillip's 'Fight SZine' Oneshot, a silent comic that is one giant, sweeping, and epic fight scene, is available from his Gumroad shop, in either standard (free) or hi-rez (paid) PDF format

Comic book writer, Mario Candelaria, sells a limited selection of comics from his own Gumroad shop.

The most popular recent title is Tales from the Pandemic, written by Mario and illustrated by a range of artists.

Jules is a comic artist based in Glasgow.

Over the last few years Jules have illustrated a few books in the graphic history series from icon books, most notably Queer: A Graphic History and Gender: A Graphic guide, written by Dr. Meg-John Barker. These books are available online and in all good book stores. Sexuality: A Graphic guide launched in late 2020.

Panel Syndicate hosts DRM-free digital comics directly from creators to readers around the world, for whatever the hell they want to pay.

Panel Syndicate was founded in 2013 by writer Brian K. Vaughan and artists Marcos Martin and Muntsa Vicente to publish and distribute their creator-owned comic THE PRIVATE EYE, a forward-looking mystery whose success allowed them to open up the site to new series by different creators:

Creators keep all the rights to their series and you can download each and every one of our oversized issues, for any price you think is fair. 100% of your payments go directly into the greedy mitts of the authors and will help fund the rest of these stories that we're very proud to present, so thanks for reading...

Founded in 2001, Van Haren Publishing has become the world’s leading publisher in best practice, frameworks, methods, and standards within IT Management, Project Management, Enterprise Architecture, and Business Management. 

Based in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, they are the official publisher for some of the world’s leading organizations in these areas and their frameworks and standards, including The Open Group, IPMA, ASL BiSL Foundation, IAOP®, IVI, IFDC, and IACCM.

Wizard Zines by Julia Evans in a fantastic resource for programming, computing, and web tips!

Created as wonderfully illustrated printable comic books, Julia's titles are amazingly useful, and should be kept to hand by anyone who needs quick & easy IT reference material.

Bit Size Bash looks very handy!

Little Toller Books was born in 2008 as an imprint of the Dovecote Press, a family-run publishing company that has specialised in books about rural life and local history since 1974. Little Toller was started with a singular purpose: to revive forgotten and classic books about nature and rural life in the British Isles.

The success of Little Toller’s Nature Classics has enabled it to grow into an independent publisher, attuned to writers and artists who seek inventive ways to reconnect us with the natural world and to celebrate the places we live in.

Home to the exclusive ebook, A Stone Statue in the Future by Ben Myers.

Obverse is the only publisher ever to publish books on both The Strange World of Gurney Slade and that Typhoo Tea Doctor Who book.

A wide range of titles, mostly Dr. Who related, and most also available as e-books.

Ladylit Publishing is an independent lesbian fiction publisher and THE PLACE to buy all Harper Bliss e-books direct from the author.

Harper Bliss is a best-selling lesbian romance author. Among her most-loved books are the highly dramatic French Kissing and the often thought-provoking Pink Bean series. Titles are availabel as individual books or combined anthologies.

Founded by Zainab Akhtar, ShortBox is a quarterly, independent comics box with a unique difference: they publish all our own comics.

Self-published, small press and independent comics continue to invigorate the medium and keep readers and publishers passionately invested. Intrinsically, the ShortBox sensibility is simply to publish fresh, interesting work, and to spotlight excellent artists around the world.

Their digital shop only stocks a few itmes, but are well worth owning.

Mira Ong Chua is the artist behind the popular My Very First Vampire Blood Drive comic series.

A director and story artist working on TV animation and making comics with a focus on queer romance, over-the-top humor and fantastical, dramatic themes, Mira is known for their F/F graphic novel ROADQUEEN: Eternal Roadtrip to Love. Their next work, Goodbye, Battle Princess Peony, will be released in 2021.

Queerwebcomic.com is a new small comics publisher located in Finland.

No worries though, their comics are in English.

As QueerWebComics say:

"Have you noticed that every time you criticize a media for not having enough queer characters, a douchebag comes in and says "Why don't YOU do it better then?" Hence, now we do it."

"Say goodbye to the Dead Gays -trope and welcome to the Queerwebcomic.com shop where there's so many queer characters, it'd be impossible to kill them all off!"

Rexx Deane is a science fiction author originally from the Forest of Dean, UK.

He presently lives near Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, UK with his partner, Kris, a disability fitness instructor and wheelchair user.

Rexx writes science fiction titles that feature and centre a disabled protagonist, emphasising the need to normalise such characters in our stories.

Unwinnable is a website and digital magazine, founded in 2010 to provide a different kind of cultural criticism.

"We love to read about different perspectives, so we set out to collect a diverse group of contributors, amateur and veteran alike, to tell their stories."

Home of Unwinnable Monthly magazine, Exploits and other digital magazines, books, and comics, this is a treasure trove of content!

Formats may vary by product type.

Lantana is an award-winning children's book publisher and social enterprise based in the UK, with a mission to publish inclusive books celebrating every kind of child and family.

In the United Kingdom, a third of school children identify as Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic yet fewer than 5% of children’s books feature main characters of colour and fewer than 2% of children's book creators are British authors of colour. Because all children deserve to see themselves in the books they read, Lantana's books are some of the most diverse representations and children's stories you'll likely see from a single publisher.

Skyla Dawn Cameron is an urban fantasy writer, graphic designer, and editor.

Skyla Dawn Cameron has been writing approximately forever. She signed her first book contract at age twenty-one for River, a unique werewolf tale, which was released to critical and reader praise alike and won her the 2007 EPPIE Award for Best Fantasy. She now has multiple series on the go to keep her busy.

Stelliform Press is a small independent literary press which publishes novellas, novels, short story collections, and works of creative non-fiction which address our world’s most pressing problems: climate change, ecological destruction, and the effect of these issues on how we relate to each other and to the other beings that live with us in the world.

Stelliform see these problems as systemic and pervasive, exacerbating long-standing social issues, and challenging us to confront the roots of human thought and feeling.

There are currently two books in stock, with another two due in 2021. A really interesting and niche bookshop, very handy as a first port-of-call for this area of interest.

Neon Hemlock Press is a small press based in Washington, DC.

They are an emerging purveyor of speculative fiction, queer chapbooks, & literary candles.

Their e-book collection is small, but very interesting! Their shop also includes a number of zines, mainly the opening issues, with more sure to come.

Omenana is a tri-monthly magazine that is open to submission from speculative fiction writers from across Africa and the African Diaspora.

Omenana is the Igbo word for divinity – it also loosely translates as “culture” – and embodies our attempt to recover our wildest stories. We are looking for well-written speculative fiction that bridges the gap between past, present and future through imagination and shakes us out of the corner we have pushed ourselves into.

Issues are free to download.

Subterranean Press creates readable art, publishing groundbreaking original works in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genre.

Subterranean works with a wide range of authors, from cult favorites to some of the bestselling and most acclaimed in the world.

Based in Burton, Michigan, Subterranean issues approximately 45 titles each year. Since it began in 1995, both the publisher and numerous works it has produced have been honored with accolades including the World Fantasy, Locus, Horror Writers Association, and Hugo awards.

Among the authors Subterranean has worked with are Stephen King, Ann Leckie, Kelley Armstrong, John Scalzi, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlín R. Kiernan, China Miéville, Aliette de Bodard, and many more.

Annorlunda publishes short e-books to inform, entertain, and make you think.

Annorlunda's books are all a little different from the mainstream. Shorter, more diverse and usually from lesser-known authors.

A great way to discover new favourite writers you'll absolutely love!

Werewolves Versus is an ongoing digital anthology that pits werewolves against a different physical, cultural or ideological foe in each issue.

Werewolves might be up against Christmas, food, 1950s Americana, fashion, or professional sports. Our goal is to promote the creation and distribution of entertaining and diverse content centered on everyone’s favourite monster, the werewolf.

Each issue is available as pay-what-you want digital download, with a minimum cost of $1. Proceeds from each sale are shared with that issue’s contributors.

Undertow Publications is a celebrated independent press in Canada dedicated to publishing original and unique genre fiction of exceptional literary merit.

Since 2009 they’ve been publishing anthologies, collections, and novellas in hardcover, trade paperback, and eBook formats. Their books have won the Shirley Jackson Award; the British Fantasy Award; and been nominated for the World Fantasy Award.

"We are endearingly weird, and proud of it."

They're also home to the new Weird Horror Magazine, launching this year.

Evernight have been publishing smart & sexy romance novels since 2010.

Home to a large selection of erotic e-books from a range of talented authors, Evernight use a handy Heat index to help readers decide on their next book.

Their titles include standalone novels, series and anthologies, covering over forty romance sub-genres, ensuring something for everyone.

PaperBound Magazine is an online magazine for the young, and the young at heart.

They are dedicated to showcasing authors and illustrators for children’s and young adult fiction and strive to deliver inspiring content, uplifting stories, and top tips for young and aspiring writers yet to burst on to the literary scene.

Wherever you are on your path to publication, you can be sure to find something useful within their pages.

They publish every quarter of the year and you can access their current issues from the website.

Jeannie Lin  is the USA Today Bestselling author of historical romance and speculative fiction.

Lin writes sweeping historical tales and is most known for bringing ground-breaking stories such as Butterfly Swords and The Lotus Palace to Romancelandia.

Kyle A. Massa is a speculative fiction author living somewhere in upstate New York with his wife, their cats, and their dog.

He has written two books and several short stories, both published and yet-to-be published. He enjoys unusual narrative structures, multiple POVs, and stories that make readers laugh.

The Do Book Company is an independent publishing house based in east London. They publish inspirational pocket guides for creative entrepreneurs, makers and Doers. 

Their concise guidebooks are written by leading experts who have spoken at the Do Lectures, an annual event, with talks shared online to a global audience. The idea behind the Do Lectures is a simple one: that people who Do things, can inspire the rest of us to go and Do amazing things too.

Pressbooks is funded by the University Libraries and the Center for Scholarship, Assessment, Learning, Teaching & Technology (CSALT²).

As well as a place to download their textbooks, Pressbooks also publish textbooks, scholarly monographs, syllabi, fiction and non-fiction books, white papers, and more with traditional copyright licenses or open licenses.

Pressbooks is used by educational institutions around the world as well as authors and publishers to distribute their titles.

Creating great comics everyone can enjoy. From homespun heroes, to vegan vampires, we've got your comic cravings covered!

The online shop opened in 2014, and all their comics seem to be available in digital formats. Their books cover an eclectic range of stories and styles, but always interesting.

Well worth a look!

Zubaan is a leading independent publishing house based in New Delhi with a strong academic and general list. It was set up in 2003 as an imprint of India’s first feminist publishing house, Kali for Women, and continues to publish books on, for, by and about women in South Asia.

Our academic list covers a range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences from research monographs to textbook and supplementary material for students. Special areas of interest include conflict studies, health, human rights and gender justice, history, cultural studies, and feminist and queer theory.

Rory started out writing character backstories for tabletop gaming, and quickly got to write his own campaigns, eventually moving on to fanfiction. That was enjoyable as a starting point, but he eventually felt the urge to create his own characters and settings.

From then on, Rory never looked back:

"Self-publishing seems like the logical route for me to take, as I dislike the idea of giving up control over my own creations to a company that’s more interested in profit than the message behind what I write."

His debut novel, Opt Out, is available under a Creative Commons licence, and can be purchased as pay-what-you-want from his website.

A working class writer, editor and publisher, Louise Walters founded the tiny, indie publisher in 2017.

Receptive to books bigger publishers may not be able to consider. Louise Walters Books aims to publish only the very best in adult literary and literary/commercial fiction, across all genres.

LWB is very small and proudly independent! After closing her publishing business, Louise now sells her own ebooks direct, while some of her originally published titles can be bought in ebook format from Scarlet Ferret.

Irodori Comics localizes and publishes Japanese doujinshi for fans around the world to enjoy.

Doujinshi are self-published "indie" works, and as such, Irodori work directly with artists in order to produce localizations that are true to their original vision.This means giving works an authentic translation that keeps the nuance, and inserting hand-drawn sound effects that feel organic to the original artwork. By doing so, Irodori hope to expand Japanese doujinshi artists' reach by providing all of their fans an opportunity to support them directly whilst promoting the collaborative spirit of doujinshi culture across the world!

Comics are sold in high quality PDF format of 3200px or 2400px height.

Lycan Valley Press publish horror, steampunk, dark fiction and pulp.

As well as e-books, Lycan Valley also sell audiobooks through their PayHip shop.

AK Press is a worker-run collective that publishes and distributes radical books and other media to expand minds and change worlds.

A half dozen of us put in long hours every week because we believe in what we do. We're anarchists, which is reflected both in the books we provide and in the way we organize our business. Decisions at AK Press are made democratically, from what we publish, to what we distribute and how we structure our labor. All the work is shared and it gets done without bosses. No one here is in it for the money (although we do have to pay the rent). Our goal is supplying radical ideas to as many people as possible. The books and other media we distribute are mostly published by independent presses, not the corporate giants. We make them widely available to as tools for social movements struggling to build a new world.

Cassava Republic Press was founded in Abuja, Nigeria, 2006 by Bibi Bakare-Yusuf and Jeremy Weate with the aim of bringing high quality fiction and non-fiction for adults and children alike to a global audience.

Their mission is to change the way we all think about African writing.

"We think that contemporary African prose should be rooted in African experience in all its diversity, whether set in filthy-yet-sexy megacities such as Lagos or Kinshasa, in little-known communities outside of Bahia, in the recent past or indeed the near future.

We also think the time has come to build a new body of African writing that links writers and readers from Benin to Bahia. It’s therefore the right time to ask challenging questions of African writing – where have we come from, where are we now, where are we going?  Our role is to facilitate and participate in addressing these questions, as our list grows.  We are still just beginning."

Bywater Books represents the coming of age of queer literature.

Committed to bringing the best of contemporary writing to a discerning readership, the Bywater Books imprint features lesbian- and feminist-themed fiction and narrative non-fiction. Amble Press primarily publishes fiction and narrative non-fiction from writers who identify as people of color, and those writing across the broader queer spectrum.

MVmedia was established ten years ago to provide exciting science fiction and fantasy based on African/African Diaspora culture, history and tradition.

Over the years they've published over twenty books that cover the range of the Black Fantastic. Take your time browsing their titles that range from Afrofuturism to Black Scifi. Welcome to the best of the Black Fantastic.

Kiko writes science fiction and fantasy, and lives in Nairobi, Kenya.

Author of the short story Jiwe, you can find more of Kiko's fiction on the author's personal website.

Founded in 1995 by Dan Simon, and named for the seven authors who committed to a home with a fiercely independent spirit, Seven Stories Press publishes uncompromising political books, fiction, and poetry.

Seven Stories publishes works of the human imagination—sometimes in the form of fiction and literature, sometimes in the form of political nonfiction and sometimes in a hybrid form that has elements of both.

After twenty years in UK publishing including a stint at Mills & Boon, KJ Charles is now a full-time writer. She lives in London with her husband, two kids, an out-of-control garden and an increasingly murderous cat.

KJ writes mostly historical romance, often with some fantasy or horror in there. Her paranormal romance Spectred Isle is a 2018 RITA nominee.

Avery Hill is a comic publisher based in London.

They help aspiring creators reach their potential and are home to the geniuses that the mainstream has yet to recognise.

Their canon includes psychogeographical mappings, eco-anarchist wizards, boat-shaped coffins, an all-female/non-binary construction crew (in space), a bad canine named Greasy, and much more.

Avery Hill recently opened a Gumroad shop that now stocks their collection of comics.

Malefaction is an Edinburgh-based literary crime fiction magazine, founded in 2019 by Napier MA Creative Writing graduates Katie Griffiths and Lauren Mulvihill. 

Malefaction accept works in all genres, so long as they follow their Golden Rule: each piece must feature a crime, or be related to crime in some way (e.g. a courtroom setting, a forensic scientist protagonist, etc.). 

Crime is everywhere in fiction. Crimes often serve as catalysts for stories across genres: from Sci-Fi to Fantasy, Horror to Romance, crime is one of the most flexible plot drivers out there. Malefaction want you to explore the huge potential of crime fiction through genre blending (although we do accept pure crime stories too!) Fiction is an ideal place to examine questions of morality, justice, and deviance.

Malefaction is a queer-owned and female-run publication.

HackSpace magazine is the new monthly magazine for people who love to make things and those who want to learn.

Grab some duct tape, fire up a microcontroller, ready a 3D printer and hack the world around you!

Created by The RaspberryPi Foundation.

The MagPi  is the official Raspberry Pi magazine.

Written for the community, it is packed with Pi-themed projects, computing and electronics tutorials, how-to guides, and the latest community news and events.

Created by The RaspberryPi Foundation.

Magazines are free to download.

Wireframe is a new fortnightly magazine that lifts the lid on video games.

In every issue, they looking at how games are made, who makes them, and even guide you through the process of making your own.

Created by The RaspberryPi Foundation.

Magazines are free to download.

Planet Scumm is a tri-annual science-fiction magazine, published by Spark & Fizz Books.

The publication was born out of a reverence for the bizarre science fiction magazines of the ’30s, ’50s, and ’60s. Their operation is set up to discover, curate, and amplify the new digital vanguard of science fiction writers passing through the semi-pro market.

24/03/2020: ALL E-BOOKS ARE FREE TO THE PUBLIC UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
(but the pay-what-you-want option is available, if you want to help keep your favourite intergalactic publishers afloat)

Ticonderoga Publications is an Australian independent publishing house founded by Russell B. Farr in 1996.

The publisher specialises in collections of science fiction, fantasy and horror short stories. Between 1996 and 1999, Ticonderoga Press published collections by Steven Utley, Sean Williams, Stephen Dedman and Simon Brown.

With the best part of 15 years in business and more than 30 titles published, Ticonderoga Publications is one of Australia's longest running and productive independent presses.

Not all titles are available as e-books.

Based in Swindon, UK, Mongoose Publishing was founded in 2001 and within 6 months became the UK’s largest publisher of roleplaying games.

Initially concentrating on d20 based products, Mongoose Publishing's first book was the Slayers Guide to Hobgoblins, part of the Slayers Guide series of books. Subsequent product lines followed in rapid succession with the release of the Encyclopaedia Arcane, Travellers Tales, Quintessential and Cities of Fantasy series of books.

As well as selling many titles in e-book-only format, many have a digital option, and every print book comes with a free PDF copy.

Digital titles are reasonably priced compared to paper copies.

Scarlet Ferret is an independent DRM-free bookshop, selling hand-picked Special Edition ebooks by selected authors in science fiction, fantasy, horror, historical fantasy, crime and more, as well as digital magazines, such as Interzone.

Founded by Kevin Beynon, creator of Libreture and The Epubizer, Scarlet Ferret's books cover a range of genres from sci-fi and fantasy, horror and steampunk, to historical fiction, crime and non-fiction. Scarlet Ferret is a curated ebookshop, every title read and loved before hitting the shelves. Above all, expect to discover books and authors you haven't met before.

Each book purchased at Scarlet Ferret comes with exciting downloadable extras, such as additional artwork or desktop wallpaper based on the book cover; a recommended playlist to listen along to while reading the book; or even a map of the setting depicted in the story.

Ebb Magazine is an entirely free online magazine and platform.

Ebb critically assesses global politics and problems facing the working class, whether these are theoretical and practical obstacles facing left parties, the rise of fascism, or environmental disaster.

Black & Green Games is the independent game publishing imprint of designer, Emily Care Boss.

An imprint of Shield and Crescent Press. Founded in 2005 with the release of Breaking the Ice, Black & Green Games brings you role playing games centered on exploring emotions and the human experience.

Get My Comics sell both physical and digital comics as well as the popular comic magazine, ComicScene.

Whether you are an avid follower of a couple of titles, or 50… if you love variant covers, or hate them… if you ever wondered how the hell you’re supposed to get all the parts in a crossover story when you only pick up one title from it… this site is for you.

Not all comics are available in digital format.

Becka Sutton writes fantasy, both epic and urban.

Becka's e-books are available to buy direct from her Gumroad shop.

Based in Texas, USA, Skirmisher has published more than 120 wargaming, fiction, and roleplaying titles.

Its products include the "Swords of Kos" shared world fantasy fiction project and RPG campaign setting; numerous d20 publications and universal sourcebooks; the Wisdom from the Wastelands rules supplement for post-apocalyptic role-playing games; the Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition horror live-action roleplaying game (LARP); the H.G. Wells' Little Orc Wars miniatures wargaming system, which uses live catapult fire to resolve combat; a line of pre-painted resin Orc miniatures; and the "Quactica" and "Nuisances" lines of white metal miniatures.

Dr. Axel Rauschmayer specializes in JavaScript and web development, and has written a number of titles on JavaScript and its related technologies.

The website, Exploring JS: JavaScript books for programmers, covers Dr. Rauschmayer's books. All his e-books are DRM-free and usually available in multiple formats.

Some titles are available at LeanPub, while others are available to buy direct from his own online shop.

Michelle Kan is an independent creative based in Wellington, New Zealand.

A filmmaker/videographer by daylight and author of speculative fiction by moonlight, she loves writing dynamic urban fantasy and gentle Chinese fairytales through an aromantic lens. Her debut novel, No More Heroes, was initially written during National Novel Writing Month in 2014 and independently published the following year.

Michelle is passionate about the arts, exploring her cultural heritage through her creative output, and is a lover of graphic novels, video games, action/martial arts films and parkour – all profound influences which helped her shape the content that she likes to produce.

Ever since founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler stapled together their first guidebook after an epic trip across Asia, Lonely Planet has put travellers at the heart of everything they do, informing and inspiring them with trusted content for print and digital from experts who visit every destination.

Their e-book guides look just as good as their paper counterparts. The PDF version is designed to be as graphic-rich as possible, while the ePub and Mobi versions are formatted specifically for e-ink devices.

Their help pages suggest the PDF versions may include DRM.

Established in 2016 Aurelia Leo is an independent publisher and bookseller.

Located in Louisville, Kentucky they specialize in diverse speculative fiction, namely: horror, fantasy, science fiction, alternate history, and paranormal romance. Their flagship titles are Helios Quarterly Magazine, Selene Quarterly Magazine, and Invictus: Quarterly Comics and Illustrations.

They also stock paper books, so check that the title you want is available in a digital format.

Located in New Mexico, USA, Nine Star Press are a boutique publisher of quality LGBTQA romance, erotica, and literary fiction.

Owned and managed by LGBTQA people, Nine Star adore romance and erotic romance, but also have an enormous interest in showcasing amazing literary works about characters less represented in fiction: ace, aro, trans, nonbinary, genderfluid, bi, pan, etc. They also like genre-bending fiction, fusion genre, and stories that don’t quite fit into a particular category.

Nine Star Press publish the much-loved Tales of Inthya series by Effie Calvin.

Journey Press was created by Gideon Marcus, the founder of Galactic Journey, in August 2019.

One of Journey Press’ goals is to bring masterpieces by marginalized voices back into the light of day, sharing them with the modern science fiction audience. These stories aren’t just raw reprints; they are introduced and put in context by a team of rising authors you’ve probably seen in print already.

Journey Press, in addition to publishing anthologies of the best vintage works, plans to produce collections of new works, too.

Created by Sandra Alvarez and Caroline Quintanar, The Medieval Magazine is an exclusive digital magazine on the Middle Ages.

Currently running at 24 issues, each is available to buy individually, as a rolling subscription or as season or full-year bundles.

Tilted Windmill Press is the home of technology books by Michael W Lucas.

His books cover subjects such as Networking, Sysadmin Tools, and Operating Systems.

“One of the best technical writers in the networking and security environments.” – Midwest Book Review

Founded by Catch Business and Elle Nash in 2015, Witch Craft publish an annual literary magazine every spring focused on writing that is moving, dangerous and subversive. submissions open in the fall.

Witch Craft Magazine & Sad Spell Press shares work that amplifies what it feels like to break apart from or find a safe space within a society constantly trying to define us.

The digital edition is heavily discounted from the print edition.

Indie Press Revolution (IPR) is a network of creator-publishers devoted to bringing you the latest innovations in tabletop roleplaying and story games.

Launched December 1, 2004 with seven member-publishers, we've grown to connect more than one hundred small-press tabletop roleplaying and story game companies to retailers on five continents, conventions, and individual customers.

Based in Portland, OR, USA, Groupees transforms the distribution of digital media entertainment into a fun, social and exciting experience.

Groupees is a unique online and mobile platform for distribution of digital media, including comics and ebooks, with real-time social features so users can share their passions with like-minded people from around the world. Especially interesting are their e-book and comic bundles.

The on-going mission of Luna Station Quarterly is to display the vast and varied talents of female-identified speculative fiction writers.

We believe that women have a unique and universal voice in fiction and we aim to get it heard.

This idea was conceived by founding editor, Jennifer Lyn Parsons, after spending time in the trenches of the Star Wars fan fiction community and being exposed to the particular and unique writing styles of the women and girls who posted there.

Founded in March 2014, Old Computr is a wonderful collection of articles and photographs of retro computers.

The books themselves are beautifully compiled and the photographs are stunning. A must-buy for any fan of the more mature computing hardware, especially from Atari, Commodore and Acorn.

Three Crows Magazine is a quarterly Science Fiction and Fantasy magazine that includes short stories up to 4,000 words, book, film, and video game reviews, and interviews with writers, editors, and influencers in the world of SFF.

With so many underrepresented voices and stories untold in the genres that give the broadest creative freedom - it is only natural to give the platform to these voices. That is our goal.

In the tumultuous times we live in, literary fantasy and science-fiction give a chance to reflect on real life, to analyze it, and propose a way to solve the conflicts. Or just have fun reading about devouring bodies of unsuspecting astronauts by omnipotent, Lovecraftian monsters.

Founded in 1993, Alternating Current is a boutique independent press dedicated to publishing and promoting incredible literature that challenges readers and has an innate sense of self, timelessness, and atmosphere.

They love science, history, homebound roots, rural landscapes, poetic literary fiction, diverse voices, and all that is electric in the literary world.

Power & Magic Press is an independent comics publisher in Portland, OR.

Our mission is the creative and economic empowerment of queer creators, creators of color, and creators at the intersections. The driving force behind P&M Press is Joamette Gil, a queer Afro-Cuban cartoonist and editor of the award-winning POWER & MAGIC: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology.

Red Sun is a quarterly science fiction, fantasy and horror magazine.

The stories can be dark. They can be violent. They can be gory. They can be humorous. They can be weird. They can be political. They can be speculative. They can be populated with any culture, any religion. With men, women, LGBT, black, white, or brown.

Each issue also includes interviews, articles, and reviews.

Khabar Keslan is an independently run, volunteer-based, primarily English-language online review featuring art and critique relating to Middle East, Africa, and/or South (East) Asia (MESAEA).

This is a dedicated platform for dissidents, artists, critics, and those on the margins.

We are deeply unimpressed by the representation of the region; hence our name, “Khabar Keslan,” or lazy news. Coverage of these regions tends to emphasize violence, chaos, and corruption. But the region is also complex, beautiful, and wrought with passionate voices.

As much as destruction characterizes the region, so does creation.

Phoenix Publishing House rose from the flames in 2018 to create a home for mental health publishing as independent specialists.

We are passionate about bringing the latest in psychoanalytic thought and research into the world. Our purpose is not to create accord but to stimulate debate, to open minds to new ways of working, to present opposing theories, to break down orthodoxies – and above all to question everything. We exist to disseminate new ideas and approaches to a wider readership through our publications.

The Eisner-nominated monthly digital magazine celebrating the comics medium.

PanelxPanel features a range of critics and comics creators in each issue, looking at themes, craft and why comics are a unique medium for storytelling. Edited by Strip Panel Naked's Hass Otsmane-Elhaou.

ArabLit (arablit), or Arabic Literature (in Translation), was founded by M Lynx Qualey in 2009, and has developed into a source of daily news and views on Arab and Arabic literature and translation.

It has been used in classrooms, publishing houses, translators' & readers' homes, and elsewhere around the world. In November 2018 ArabLit launched their journal, ArabLit Quarterly.

ArabLit Quarterly brings together short stories and poetry by exciting Arabic-language writers translated into English, as well as interviews, news and much more in each issue.

Born in Singapore but a global citizen, Joyce Chng writes mainly science fiction and YA.

She likes steampunk and tales of transformation/transfiguration. Her fiction has appeared in Crossed Genres, The Apex Book of World SF II, We See A Different Frontier, Cranky Ladies of History, and Accessing The Future.

Launched in 2015 by editor Steve J Shaw, Black Shuck Books is an independent publisher of horror fiction based in the depths of the Kent countryside.

Whether novels, novellas, collections or anthologies, Black Shuck is committed to producing and publishing the best in modern and classic horror. Black Shuck Books is home to the Great British Horror series of anthologies, along with multiple titles by both established writers and new voices.

Kabaka Magazine believes that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex lives are part of the African experience and culture.

As such LGBTQI literature is an important part of African Literature. By publishing and making it available to be read, we are affirming that LGBTQI lives are important and African, and that they deserve to live and flourish.

eManga is Digital Manga, Inc.'s own one stop online shop for manga, originally established back in 2008.

Providing manga via online streaming and a variety of downloadable formats, in 2018, eManga merged with DMI's print store - Akadot - to house everything in one place.

They stock a multitude of genres, from Action to Seinen, Mainstream, Slice of life, Drama, Romance and many more. Their library includes titles from Digital Manga's most popular imprints, as well as partnered publishers like Tezuka Productions, Media Factory and SoftBank Creative (Harlequin Romance manga). They also carry their own DMG imprint, which are series' localized by fans for fans.

In Ancient Rome, an Augur was a religious official who looked for the will of the gods in the flight patterns of birds, and made predictions based on the stories they read there. In contemporary Toronto, Augur is a literary magazine that believes we can better engage with our pasts, presents, and futures through stories that explore what-ifs and could-bes.

We’re interested in realist pieces that verge on the dreamlike or surreal; speculative stories that are almost realist; and, on top of that, any form of literary fantasy/science fiction/speculative fiction.

Our goal is to publish at least 75% Canadian and Indigenous content, offering new opportunities to the rich communities of speculative fiction writers in the North. And, more importantly, we’re committed to featuring intersectional narratives as represented by characters, storytelling, and, in particular, author representation.

Media Diversified is a non profit working to enrich, engage and improve the UK’s media landscape.

The organisation was founded in 2013 with a mission to challenge the homogeneity of voices in UK news media, through addressing the under-representation of BAME communities.

As well as its online magazine, Media Diversified also publishes its own essays and books digitally.

Evil Hat started on a lark. When Fred and Rob created that first iteration of Fate on a road trip in 2000, they had no idea they were planting the seeds that would grow into a company.

Since then, we’ve broken ground and won awards with RPG games like Fate Core, Spirit of the Century, and the Dresden Files RPG, as well as growing into tie-in fiction and board games.

Fox Spirit is a small UK press who believe that day to day life lacks a few things.

We need the fantastic, the magical, the mischievous and even a touch of the horrific to stave off the banal and humdrum. Let the skulk bring you stories full of wonder and mischief delivered with a sharp bite.

Wizard’s Tower is a not a traditional publishing company.

We do not generally buy new works, but rather concentrate on making out-of-print works available once more as e-books, and helping other small presses exploit the e-book market. Our interests are solely in the areas of science fiction, fantasy and related markets.

Wizard's Tower also publish a small number of limited-print-run anthologies with a view to encouraging diversity in the science fiction and fantasy field.

Kickstarter helps artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, and other creators find the resources and support they need to make their ideas a reality.

To date, tens of thousands of creative projects — big and small — have come to life with the support of the Kickstarter community.

A huge number of Kickstarter rewards include e-books, either as the main project outcome, or as a side-pledge for backers. Most are DRM-free.

Check specific book formats in the reward details before pledging.

The science-fiction author, Peter Watts, has made a number of his works available to read and download on his website.

Watts’ work is available in 20 languages. Described by the Globe & Mail as “one of the very best [hard-sf writers] alive”, the overall effect of his prose is perhaps best summed up by critic James Nicoll:

Whenever I find my will to live becoming too strong, I read Peter Watts.

Monte Cook has written hundreds of roleplaying game products, along with numerous short stories, novels, nonfiction titles, and comic books.

He is probably best known for his work on such notable titles as Planescape, Ptolus, the 3rd Edition of Dungeons & Dragons (which he codesigned with Jonathan Tweet and Skip Williams), Arcana Evolved, and of course Numenera and the Cypher System. He is a cofounder of Monte Cook Games, and is their lead designer.

Books are reasonably price compared to the print counterparts.

itch.io is an open marketplace for independent digital creators with a focus on independent video games.

It’s a platform that enables anyone to sell the content they've created. itch.io is also a collection of some of the most unique, interesting, and independent creations you'll find on the web. We're not your typical digital storefront, with a wide range of both paid and free content, we encourage you to look around and see what you find.

The digital books sold on Itch.io are usually related to games development, games culture or or specific areas of game-related sub-culture. Enjoy!

E-books are available in a variety of formats, so check the individual product before buying.

We publish comics celebrating upcoming creators and diverse voices.

We're dedicated to transparency, and helping build a supportive and kind comics community. You can find us at most major Ontario conventions, and at our social events in Toronto!

Since our founding in 2014, we’ve sold over 8,000 books and raised over $90,000 on Kickstarter. We’ve been nominated for the Gene Day Award for excellence in self-publishing in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018, and were also nominated for the Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Associations Aurora Award in 2016.

Broken Eye Books is an independent press, here to bring you the odd, strange, and offbeat side of speculative fiction.

Our stories tend to blend genres, highlighting the weird and blurring its boundaries with horror, sci-fi, and fantasy. Support weird. Support indie.

Not all of Broken Eye's books are available as ebooks.

Ebooks are reasonably discounted from their paper counterparts.

Green Ronin Publishing is a Seattle, US based company dedicated to the art of great games.

Since the year 2000 Green Ronin has established a reputation for quality and innovation that is second to none, publishing such roleplaying game hits as Dragon Age, A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying, and Mutants & Masterminds, and winning over 40 awards for excellence. For an unprecedented three years running Green Ronin won the prestigious GenCon & EnWorld Award for Best Publisher.

Based in the US, Kobold are a small-press Role Playing Game publisher.

With a huge range of titles, including source books, guides, adventures, maps and magazine, covering Dungeons & Dragon, Midgard, Pathfinder and more, Kobold really are a fantastic spot for RPG fans.

Digital books are reasonably discounted from their print counterparts..

Brain Mill Press discovers immediate, immersive, and urgent books in order to inspire and represent readers everywhere and support a just publishing paradigm.

Brain Mill Press publishes titles by underrepresented authors and applies strong guiding principles to their production and marketing plans with the goal of the widest possible readership and recognition for every book. Our readership archetype is a reader who is voracious, looking for books that provide a mirror and a window, and who reads widely across genres.

It's not academic, but it's not stupid. It's not what you already know, but it's not a know-it-all. It's SCROLL, a magazine that explores rarely revisited parts of game history.

SCROLL is for video game fans who enjoy tracing the past, but it assumes you know the basics -- the '80s market crash, the two Super Mario 2s, what an Easter egg is -- so it digs deeper. Maybe you've played Dark Souls, but did you know about the weird games its developer made for the Xbox in Japan? How many of the classic Ninja Turtles games are as good as you remember? What do you know about the companies Artdink or Warp? 

Through straightforward writing and careful curation, you'll find the answers to those questions. Let SCROLL uncork the best.

While they stopped publishing new magazines in 2015, the back issues are fantastic and are still available to buy.

Shimmer publish contemporary fantasy short stories, with a few ventures into science fiction or horror, and the stories tend to be tinged with sorrow.

Stories from Shimmer Magazine have been reprinted in Best American Fantasy 3 and Rich Horton’s Year’s Best Fantasy and Science Fiction, and get pretty terrific reviews.

Sadly, Shimmer is closing its doors in 2018 - ending with number 46. But they will hopefully keep their beautiful back issues available for sale.

Founded in 2011, Down & Out Books is an independent publisher of literary and crime fiction based in Tampa, Florida.

With a huge selection of books, imprints and a stable of excellent authors, Down & Out Books is a great spot for crime fiction fans. They also sell crime-fiction related magazines.

Worlds Without Master is an adventure fiction & gaming magazine and home of the Swords Without Master RPG.

As well as providing excellent games and scenarios in each issue, the magazine also contains articles and cartoons, along with beautiful full-colour artwork.

Every year, WWM runs the Epimas deal, where as well as getting a discount on their products, you can ensure that someone else gets a copy too. A great idea to help share the RPG love.

Worlds Without Master is also mentioned in a 2015 Guardian article on The joy of reading role-playing games.

DriveThru RPG are currently the largest online marketplace devoted to RPG and RPG-related materials.

Thousands of publishers—from big names you’ve seen in print, such as Wizards of the Coast and White Wolf Publishing, to our industry’s many talented small press innovators—have come together to list over ten thousand roleplaying titles to make sure you can get what you want when you want it on DriveThru RPG.

Titles are predominantly in PDF format.

Founded in September 2006 in Germany, Smashing Magazine delivers reliable, useful, but most importantly practical articles to web designers and developers.

We don’t care about trends; we care about things that work or fail in actual projects. We are — and always have been — independent. 12+ years, and still ongoing.

Covering a range of topics from design to development and everything in between, our e-books contain everything you need to start crafting well-designed and well-built websites today. No buts or ifs.

Based in Hertfordshire, Oldcastle Books Group is made up of a number of imprints with a huge range of titles.

Possibly the UK's smallest independent publishing group, Oldcastle comprises of No Exit Press (Crime Fiction), Kamera Books (Film & Cinema), Creative Essentials (Film Guides), Pocket Essentials (Guides), Pulp! The Classics (Retro Classics), High Stakes (Gambling), and Oldcastle itself (an eclectic mix of the rest).

I have my eye on their Anime and Studio Ghibli titles from Kamera Books.

Ebooks are fairly priced compared to the paper editions.

Argyll Productions are a small press publisher based in Dallas, Texas, in the US who publish Science Fiction from the Margins.

We’re LGBTQ owned and operated, and since 2007 we have been publishing stories with queer characters for the furry community. Now we’re looking to bring our stories to the broader speculative fiction community and to find great works from anyone whose voices have been underrepresented in fiction.

Argyll also publish and sell comics.

Founded in 1991, Lee & Low Books is the largest multicultural children's book publisher in the US.

"We are also one of the few minority-owned publishing companies in the United States, as well as a throwback to what many publishers used to be: independent, generational businesses in which the people running the company have a personal stake in its success."

Titles are organised by school grade and by categories, including Culture, such as: African/African American Interest, Asian/Asian American Interest, Latino Interest, Middle Eastern and/or Muslim Interest, and Native American Interest.

Cyhoeddwyr e-lyfrau o Gymru.

Er mai nifer bychan iawn o e-lyfrau a gyhoeddir gan Cromen, mae’n fwriad pendant i ehangu’r niferoedd ac i amrywio’r teitlau yn y Gymraeg a’r Saesneg. Bydd llyfr clawr meddal yn cael ei baratoi o bob un o’r teitlau hefyd.

Sponge is an online journal for science fiction and speculative fiction, based in the post-apocalpytic city of Christchurch, New Zealand.

They publish short stories and poetry from NZ, Australian, and Pacific writers, with a particular focus on new and emerging writers.

Issues are free to download.

Iron Circus Comics is Chicago’s largest alternative comics publisher.

Owned and operated by C. Spike Trotman, Iron Circus was founded in the spring of 2007 to publish strange and amazing comics, amplifying unheard and unique voices, and giving creators a fair deal.

Founded in 2013, Rosarium Publishing is a fledgling publisher specializing in speculative fiction, comics, and a touch of crime fiction—all with a multicultural flair.

"We simply believe that talent does not inherently have a race, religion, or region; there is no talent solely found in X or Y chromosome; talent is everywhere, and we will comb the four corners of this globe to find it."

Formats sometimes vary by title.

Launched in 2000, eBooks.com sells ebooks direct to millions of consumers around the world, with five local sales portals in the US, Canada, UK, Europe and Australia.

eBooks.com is privately held and run by its founders, life-long booksellers Stephen and Trudy Cole. It is the only independent ebook retailer that sells into every country in the world, and the International Space Station.

Not all of their books are DRM-free. Like Kobo, eBooks.com provide details about a book's DRM status on the individual book pages, and is dependent on the publisher's wishes. DRM-free books will be marked as: DRM-free EPUB.

Ylva Publishing is the home of quality books about women loving women.

Diversity among our authors is extremely important to us, and we are constantly working on making sure that you will find lesbian, bisexual, and queer authors of all skin colors, cultures, and nationalities.

Lesbian fiction books shattering boundaries! Follow our strong female characters into space, join them in sword fights, or fly with our queer superheroes. From lesbian romance and lesbian erotica to queer dystopian tales and mysteries that make your blood run cold – we have it all.

Grimdark Magazine is run by people who love the grimdark direction that science fiction and fantasy seems to be taking.

Things like the Horus Heresy and the First Law series are what get our hearts hammering with excitement. There is such a wealth of talent in the sub-genre and a genuine need for an ezine that deals specifically in the grittier nature of people in futuristic or fantasy settings that we felt compelled to get this ezine up and running.

Also home to Evil is a Matter of Perspective: An Anthology of Antagonists.

Project Runeberg is a volunteer effort to create free electronic editions of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature and make them openly available over the Internet.

Founded in 1992, the project concentrates on old books from Sweden and the Nordic countries, and is an equivalent to Project Gutenberg. The catalogue seems to contain books first published in 1483.

Since it seems to be primarily a conservation project, there is a technical process involved in recontructing the books to read. See the site for more information.

Founded in 2012, Dragonwell Publishing is based in the US Northeast and publishes 4-6 books a year, focusing mostly on science fiction and fantasy.

Dragonwell Publishing titles have been featured by Publishers Weekly, ForeWord Magazine, RT Book Reviews, San Francisco Book Reviews, and Portland Book Reviews, and highlighted by Historical Novel Society and Mythopoetic Society. Our books have been among the winners of the 2013 ForeWord Book of the Year Award and 2014 Independent Publishers Book Award.

Faded Page is an archive of eBooks that are provided completely free to everyone. The Canadian equivalent of Project Gutenberg.

The books are produced by volunteers all over the world, and we believe they are amongst the highest quality eBooks anywhere. Every one has been scanned, run through OCR software, proofed, formatted and assembled extremely carefully, using hundreds of volunteer hours. These books are public domain in Canada (because we follow the Canadian copyright laws), but if you are in another country, you should satisfy yourself that you are not breaking the copyright laws of your own country by downloading them. You are free to do whatever you like with these books, but we hope that mainly...you will enjoy reading them.

Digita Publications is Violet Blue's store where readers can find her self-published works and buy them direct: All authors are paid directly.

Established in 2007 upon the iPhone's June release, Blue endeavored to be first to bring erotic books to the device and worked with an Apple employee to publish the first Digita book in September 2007. Digita Publications also strives for a world in which audiobooks are DRM free and unrestricted by corporate monopolies.

Books are sometimes available in multiple formats, but not always and not consistently. Please scroll to the bottom of each book page to check the format information.

Tartarus is a small, British independent press founded in 1990.

We specialise in collectable hardback limited editions of literary supernatural/strange/horror fiction, and we also publish paperbacks and ebooks. We have been the recipient of five World Fantasy Awards (as recently as 2015), and in 2010 received a Stoker from the Horror Writers Association.

Books where the woman always wins and the story lingers in our minds long after the last words.

Bella Books is the premiere publisher of vibrant and irresistible fiction for and about women-loving-women. From heart-pounding romance to mystery, erotica and thriller, Bella Books embraces and celebrates the worldwide community of our lesbian, queer, non-binary readers and authors of all ages, cultures and colors.

Ghoulish (previously known as Perpetual Motion Machine) is a bookshop and small press based in San Antonio, TX.

It was founded in 2012 by Max Booth III and Lori Michelle after a long night of hard liquor and delicious nachos. PMMP publishes dark fiction that branches out into many genres, such as horror, science fiction, and crime. In addition to books, PMMP also publishes a quarterly horror magazine titled Dark Moon Digest, and hosts the Stephen King podcast, Castle Rock Radio.

Spineless Wonders is a multi-platform publishing company devoted to short, quality fiction produced by Australian writers.

We’re interested in brief fiction in all its forms – from short short stories to  novella. We also publish ‘microlit’, a unique blend of microfiction and prose poetry.

Soho Press is an independent book publisher based in Manhattan’s Union Square.

Founded in 1986, Soho publishes 90 books a year across its Soho Press, Soho Crime and Soho Teen lists, and is known for introducing bold literary voices, award-winning international crime fiction, and groundbreaking young adult fiction.

Soho also make it clear to customers that buying direct is better with such wording as "Buy from Soho and Save!"

NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the US, offers a huge range free ebooks on topics covering science, aeronatics and history.

The books are effectively articles and papers that have been converted to e-book formats, but when they include such titles as the ISS Research Guide series, who is going to argue.

This is an invanuable collection of scientific and educational work for anyone with an interest in science, space travel or NASA itself.

Anathema: Spec from the Margins is a free, online tri-annual magazine.

"Publishing speculative fiction (SF/F/H, the weird, slipstream, surrealism, fabulism, and more) by queer people of colour on every range of the LGBTQIA spectrum."

Anathema seeks to provide a home for marginalised writers and to fight back against the structural and institutional racism in publishing. They specifically publish the work of queer people of colour (POC)/Indigenous/Aboriginal creators.

Issues are available to buy individually or as a subscription.

Lackington’s is a speculative fiction magazine who specifically look to publish stylised prose.

We want to help widen the space for prose poetry. We’re looking for stylized prose. Not inept purple prose, of course, but controlled and well-crafted wordsmithery that reflects the story, setting, theme, atmosphere, or philosophy it seeks to describe.

Issue's are free to read online, but buying ebook copies ensures that contributors are paid and the magazine continues.

The Anthology is a regularly released collection of African speculative fiction stories from Will This Be A Problem.

The Will This Be A Problem Anthology is about telling our stories, our way and on our terms. It is a space for Kenyans, and Africans in general, to tell the story as they please. A space with none of the rules for what Africans are supposed to write about. A space for our stories, as diverse and sometimes as ordinary as they may be.

An essential addition to the speculative fiction scene, and an important part of decolonising the genre.

Issues are available to download for free.

Queen of Swords is an independent small press based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

They just recently started selling ebooks direct, and specialise in:

"Swashbuckling tales with female protagonists, people from wide-ranging cultural and racial backgrounds having adventures in outer space, LGBT and/or Q characters engaged in magic and swordplay and historically-flavored stories that reflect diverse casts of characters doing interesting things."

Their range includes both novels and collections by authors Emily L. Byrne, Alex Acks, and Catherine Lundoff.

Ebook prices are very competitive.

Josh Ellis is a writer, editor, former newspaper columnist, full stack web designer and developer and musician.

He's traveled and lived all over the world, but currently makes his home in Yakima, WA, the "Palm Springs of Washington State".

His book, Everyone I Know Is Brokenhearted: Collected Essays And Writing, 1998-2018 is for sale direct from his own site.

A multi-award winning speculative fiction publisher based in Australia.

Coeur de Lion's works have won:

• 3 Aurealis Awards,
• 2 Ditmars,
• a Sir Julius Vogel Award
• and a World Fantasy Award.

In 2014, they launched the free Dimension6 magazine, which

features the best new stories from established authors and fresh voices from Australia and overseas.

Pen and Sword specialises in all areas of military history, naval and maritime, aviation, local history, genealogy, social history, transport, discovery and exploration, archaeology, nostalgia and true crime.

The publisher's establishment is closely tied to the local paper, the Barnsley Chronicle.

The first books published by the company were in response to public demand following of a series of articles published in the newspaper:- Dark Peak Aircraft Wrecks told the story of crash sites in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District National Park, and a further weekly feature on the history of two Kitchener battalions, known as the Barnsley Pals, aroused a thirst for more information.

Pen and Sword's ebooks are resonable discounted from their physical counterparts.

Linen Press is an independent women’s press, based in the UK.

Only recently starting to sell e-books direct from their own shop, Linen Press has been publishing "fine writing for women, by women" for about ten years.

Founded by Lynn Michell, their first book, Childhood’s Hill:

"...sold out, was re-printed, and beat Ian Rankin one week in Blackwell’s best sellers."

Their two (for now) e-books are reasonably discounted from their paper counterparts.

Futurefire is a publisher of short speculative fiction stories, poetry and art.

They publish The Future Fire, a magazine:

"...of beautiful and useful short stories and poetry in Social-political and Progressive Speculative Fiction, Feminist SF, Queer SF, Eco SF, Multicultural SF and Cyberpunk, and an experiment in and celebration of new writing."

Issues are published approximately four times a year and are available to download for free in ePub and Mobi formats.

The Italian comic creation and shop site, Comics Fu, is currently in its pilot stage, but looks very promising for both comic readers and creators.

A platform which enables authors to distribute their digital comics directly to readers.

Creators set the price for their work, and get their own shop page. The site automaticaly generates multiple formats from uploaded files to suit every reader, and takes a fee from each transaction.

While it's currently in Italian, the founders have expressed their desire to support more languages. Keep an eye on the full launch of Comics Fu for some great deals.

Comics are available in both high and low quality formats.

Dynamite's CEO and Publisher, Nick Barrucci explains that:

"Expanding into DRM-free content, made available directly to consumers from our website, is simply giving the consumers the option for what they want and how they want it, and continues to reach out to a non-traditional comic-reading audience."

Dynamite have a massive selection of comics. From Battlestar Galactica: Zarek to Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, there's a range and depth to their collection. I'm going to dive into the Pathfinder titles and maybe some Bob's Burgers.

A part of OneBookshelf, DriveThru provide a number of online shops for digital comics, RPGs, fiction and card games.

Their comic shop is another place where the comic-hungry fan can discover titles from their favourite publishers. From 2000AD to White Wolf, there's plenty from across the genre spectrum, all in DRM-free PDF format.

If you can't find your comic anywhere else, try DriveThruComics.

The British comic book publisher, 2000AD have been providing DRM-free versions of their comics since 2007.

A great alternative to online comic services that don't let you download what you've bought. Along with the Rebellion bookshop they have your Dredd covered.

Brian sells his Powder Mage novellas direct from his own site.

Brian McClellan is an American epic fantasy author from Cleveland, Ohio. He is known for his acclaimed Powder Mage Universe and essays on the life and business of being a writer.

It's always better to buy as direct as possible, so if that's what you're looking for then Brian's site is certainly the place to get them.

Tincture Journal is a quarterly e-book literary journal, featuring fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction from Australia and the world.

There is no thematic focus. Our aim is to provide a space for both new and experienced writers to publish their work.

The current and previous issues are all freely available from their website.

Author Kara Dennison and illustrator Ginger Hoesly co-created the Owl's Flower book series and sell direct from their own website.

Their series of light novels explore the relationship between a human and an immortal, and what happens when they both actually want it to work. The first book is available for free.

It's great to see authors and illustrators working together, and directly with their audience, to produce great new books.

Founded by publishing veteran Chris McVeigh, Fahrenheit Press publishes crime fiction from the noir, hard-boiled to the experimental.

They've only recently started selling direct from their website, but when asked if their e-books are DRM-free, they responded with: "Yup. Entirely. Cause we're not twats...", which is good enough for me.

Fahrenheit certainly do things differently, so are definitely a publisher, and now retailer, to watch out for.

"We're intent on doing things differently and we're building a publishing company that's heavy on curation and deadly serious about marketing."

RPG e-books are Bundle of Holding's business.

The bundles are usually chock-full of material, with an emphasis on rulebooks and supplements. If you're looking to make savings on the usually expensive rules, codices or bestiaries from both popular and obscure role playing games, this is for you.

Books normally provided as PDFs, but ocassionally in ePub and Mobi formats.

Not to be confused with the now closed 'pay what you want' bookshop, this Open Books have a more traditional model and some very interesting quirks.

Their bookshop is hidden away amongst the links on the website, but is referred to as Open Books Direct. While the site may give the initial impression of being amateurish, the books seem to be of a very professional standard. The covers are especially nice and varied.

Each book has its own colour-schemed page which contains plenty of information.

Ebooks are very reasonably priced compared to their paper counterparts.

Predominantly a romance publisher, Riverdale Avenue Books also publish a wide selection of other genres.

Their author list is huge and they categorise their titles by their specific imprints.

Founded in 2001, Haymarket Books is

"a radical, independent, nonprofit book publisher based in Chicago."

Their goal is to "publish books that contribute to struggles for social and economic justice". And they certainly do that.

Categories range from Arts and Culture to Sports, via Environment & Science and Poetry.

Unbound is a crowd-funding platform for books.

So far, people have pledged over £5 million to fund various author's book publishing projects on the site. As you can imagine, genres vary greatly.

The author can select whether to apply DRM, so take care when pledging or buying a book.

A small publisher of LGBTQ titles, Riptide seeks to

"bring the Manhattan-quality aesthetic to small-press, author-friendly publishing—and in doing so, to elevate and integrate positive LGBTQ representation into the mainstream."

and not only limited to romance or erotica.

"First and foremost, Riptide publishes quality LGBTQ fiction."

Riptide also sell Gift Cards, so you can introduce others to their titles.

Founded in 1969, Pluto Press is one of Britain’s oldest radical publishers.

"anti-capitalist, internationalist and politically independent"

Pluto cover topics ranging from Anthropology to Geography to Sociology, and the quality of their titles are fantastic - their Awards page says it all.

Their ebooks are sometimes priced the same as or more than the paperback edition, so please check before buying.

Andrew Burt founded ReAnimus Press to:

"help fellow authors get their out-of-print books and short works back into readers' hands, and to publish high-quality new releases."

With authors like Ben Bova, Karen Haber and Severna Park on board, ReAnimus offers a huge range of titles, mainly from the science fiction and fantasy genres.

Books by the late US author Jack Vance range from science fiction to mystery, and from a variety of pen names.

A lot of work has gone in to producing these digital titles, but they are only available to buy from the US. However, if you're located in the US and want to get hold of this legendary author's work, this site is for you. Many of the books also have new cover art.

The home of Michael Marshall Smith's titles.

EmEmEss is the best place to buy your copies of the must-have, and very creepy, Straw Men series of novels.

Create by the author Diane Duane, Ebooks Direct is where Diane sells all her own digital books.

Ranging in genre, from magical fantasy, science-fiction and more, buying direct from the author means they get a much larger cut of the price, making it a great way to support your favourite writer.

A place to buy books by Lynn Abbey, C.J. Cherryh and Jane Fancher, Closed Circle is an interesting find.

Although in need of a visual update, I get the impression the site 'just works', which is all you need. The last news update is from November, 2017, so the site looks to still be up and running. Well worth a look.

The UK-based romance & erotic fiction publisher, Totally Bound Publishing, started in 2006 and is part of the Totally Entwined Group.

Each book has a 'Heat' and 'Sexometer' rating. I wonder if that's a metadata standard. It's nice to see an UK company just getting on and doing its thing.

Launched in 2008, Extasy Books is a publisher of erotic fiction in a huge range of categories, from Action/Adventure to Horror and Science-Fiction.

As well as e-books, Extasy also sell audiobooks and bundles. There are also free books to give you a taster.

The Scottish science fiction magazine, Shoreline of Infinity want:

"...stories that explore that uncertain future. We want to play around with the big ideas and the little ones. We want writers to tell us stories to inspire us, give us hope, provide some laughs. Or to scare the stuffing out of us. We want good stories: we want to be entertained, here on the Shoreline."

With contributors from all over the world, and chock full of fantastic fiction, articles and poetry, SoI is an amazing read.

Nightmare is a horror and dark fantasy magazine.

In Nightmare’s pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.

Nightmare can be purchased individually or as a range of subscriptions.

Lightspeed is a science fiction and fantasy magazine.

In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF—and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales. No subject is off-limits, and we encourage our writers to take chances with their fiction and push the envelope.

Based in Cambridge, Windhorse publish titles by a huge range of authors that cover wide aspects of Buddhism.

Windhorse Publications is a Buddhist charitable company based in the UK. We seek to produce accessible and relevant books of high quality for all those interested in Buddhism at whatever level.

Founded in 1973 and based in the US, Guilford Press publish books in mental health, education, geography, and research methods.

Guilford publish around 90 titles a year and seem to get how useful e-books are for many of their customers in education and research.

If you buy any ebook, you can also get the print format for only 20% more.

Hailing from the US, Bold Strokes Books publishes and sells LGBTQ fiction.

Bold Strokes aim for "quality and diversity in LGBTQ literature", and they have a wide selection on offer.

Standard Ebooks is a volunteer driven, not-for-profit effort to produce a collection of high quality, carefully formatted, accessible, open source, and free public domain ebooks that meet or exceed the quality of commercially produced ebooks.

The text and cover art in the ebooks is already believed to be in the public domain, and Standard Ebook dedicates its own work to the public domain, thus releasing whole ebooks files themselves into the public domain.

The Black Library is the bookshop for the tabletop gaming company, Games Wokshop's, many titles.