Does what it says on the tin.
After abusing your local interlibrary loan system, sometimes you know you want to own a book for yourself. Here's a few ways to do it:
“It should be understood that on paper the Massive Bookshop is a business like any other, embedded in the totally unsustainable global networks of capital accumulation. We are not ending capitalism with a bookstore. We are simply selling rad books and, at the same time, bailing some people out of jail. The Massive Bookshop is an ongoing experiment, exploring what's possible within the constraints set for us by capitalism. We are having fun, and we hope you'll have fun with us, too.”
--From their About Us page.
“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. Microcosm was started by Joe Biel in a bedroom closet as a distro and record label in 1996 and is now among the oldest independent book publishing houses in Portland, OR.”
--From their About Us page.
Publishers will regularly sit on copyrights, renewing them but never publishing copies again. Because of this, many great works have become either prohibitively expensive or impossible to source.
Rather than do nothing, Third Eye Wide finds these books, formats, and prints them on demand. Any text, any quality, any rarity--it does not matter. I keep prices low to enable people to have access to good, handmade, and long-lasting books.