John Hunt Publishing

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Founded2001 (2001)
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Nonfiction topics critical theory, philosophy, political theory, music criticism, contemporary cinema
Official website www.collectiveinkbooks.com

Collective Ink Limited (formerly John Hunt Publishing) is a publishing company founded in the United Kingdom in 2001 under the name John Hunt Publishing and launched as O Books. [1] The publisher has 15 active imprints, the largest of which are Moon Books, O-Books and Zero Books (styled Zer0 Books). The Zero Books imprint was founded to combat what they viewed as a trend of anti-intellectualism in contemporary culture. [2] After changing ownership in 2021, in June 2023, John Hunt Publishing was renamed to Collective Ink. [3]

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History

Zero Books is the largest imprint of Collective Ink. ZeroBooksLogo1.jpg
Zero Books is the largest imprint of Collective Ink.

Collective Ink Limited (then John Hunt Publishing) was founded in the United Kingdom in 2001, [1] [4] [5] originally named O Books, [1] a name which it continues to use as one of its imprints, in the "mind, body, and spirit" market. [6] Its Zero Books imprint was founded by Tariq Goddard and Mark Fisher in 2009. John Hunt Publishing then underwent a major reorganization in 2010. [1] In 2014, Goddard and Fisher left Zero Books and launched Repeater Books as a part of Watkins Media. [7] [8] Following the sale of Collective Ink to Watkins Media in October 2021 Goddard has once again became the publisher of Zero Books. Zero Books predominantly publishes works of critical thinking and philosophy, such as Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism and Eugene Thacker’s In The Dust of this Planet.

From 2014 the imprint was run by Douglas Lain along with Ashley Frawley and C Derick Varn and has published critically acclaimed books such as Kill All Normies and Zen City. [9] [10] The imprint began publishing a series called Neglected or Misunderstood in 2017 with the aim of covering "neglected or misunderstood" left-wing theorists such as Shulamith Firestone and Theodor Adorno. [11] Zero Books states that their goal is to utilize critical theory to "publish books that make our readers uncomfortable" in order to "reinvent the left". [12]

In 2014, it was stated that John Hunt Publishing "deals directly with authors" and does not require they have an agent. However, in the mid-2010s it was stated that "because they are a small publisher, they are unable to pay advances, so [authors] have to wait for the royalties to roll in". [13] Imprints of John Hunt Publishing offered four “levels” of publishing based on the likely popularity of the book, [13] with both “traditional publishing deals and what it describes as co-operative publishing for authors,” with about a quarter of books, most prevalently those in fiction, being published “under co-operative terms,” [1] though this would vary by imprint. The company also said that "every title gets treated the same. No bookshop or reviewer is going to know if one title or another has had a subsidy." [1] As with other imprints operations are controlled by authors themselves, who "have gravitated to being involved in publishing, whether coming up through editing, design or marketing." [1] This multiple-imprint author-centric style was described as, "It can’t work. It shouldn’t work. Yet, somehow, John Hunt Publishing is making it work." [1] A central corporate office continues to manage sales, accounts, and royalties for all imprints. [1] As of 2014, the company was publishing "approximately 300 titles per year with global sales and a focus on physical stores." [1]

On October 23, 2021, Repeater Books announced that they had bought the Zero Books imprint from John Hunt Publishing. [14] Then, two days later on October 25, 2021, it was announced that Watkins Books owner Etan Ilfeld had purchased John Hunt Publishing from John Hunt. [15] In June 2023, John Hunt Publishing was renamed to Collective Ink. [3]

Like its predecessor, Collective Ink does not require authors to have an agent, and "welcomes unsolicited manuscript submissions". [16] The publisher also routinely publishes lists of contacts for CI authors and data regarding books in production, the number of advertisements run for books, and average royalty payments. [16]

Imprints

As of 2023, the active imprints of John Hunt Publishing are described as: [1] [17]

6th Books -- ALL THINGS PARANORMAL [18]
Business Books -- FRESH THINKING FOR THE BUSINESS WORLD
Changemakers Books -- TRANSFORMATION
Chronos Books -- HISTORY
Christian Alternative -- THE NEW OPEN SPACES
Circle Books -- CHRISTIAN FAITH
Iff Books -- ACADEMIC AND SPECIALIST
Liberalis -- LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION & STORYTELLING
Lodestone Books -- YOUNG ADULT FICTION
MANTRA BOOKS -- EASTERN RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY
Moon Books -- PAGANISM & SHAMANISM [18]
O-BOOKS -- SPIRITUALITY [6]
Our Street Books -- JUVENILE FICTION, NON-FICTION, PARENTING
PSYCHE BOOKS -- PSYCHOLOGY
Roundfire -- FICTION
Zero Books -- CULTURE, SOCIETY & POLITICS

Former or inactive imprints are:

Cosmic Egg Books -- FANTASY, SCIENCE FICTION & HORROR
Dodona Books -- ASTROLOGY, NUMEROLOGY AND GENERAL DIVINATION [18]
Earth Books -- ENVIRONMENT
Compass Books -- PRACTICAL BOOKS FOR AUTHORS
Perfect Edge -- "Fiction for those who know fiction matters" (noted on the website as "no longer receiving submissions")
Bedroom Books -- ROMANCE AND SEXY-TIME
Gaming Books -- CARD AND BOARD GAMES
Soul Rocks -- NEW GENERATION
Top Hat Books -- HISTORICAL FICTION
Sassy Books -- BADASS BOOKS FOR GO-FOR-IT GIRLS
PSYCHE BOOKS -- PSYCHOLOGY

Authors

Some notable authors published through John Hunt Publishing include: Andrez Bergen, Frithjof Bergmann, Danielle Collobert, David Fontana, Nicholas Hagger, Leslie Scalapino, David W. Berner Jonathan Dapra and Steve Taylor. Authors published through the Zero Books imprint include: Angela Nagle, Mark Fisher, Tariq Goddard, David Stubbs, Guy Mankowski, Adam Kotsko, Owen Hatherley, Cliff Slaughter, Anselm Jappe, Laurie Penny, Nina Power, Grafton Tanner, Eugene Thacker, Gilad Atzmon, David Cromwell.

See also

Zero Books

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  2. ↑ Former Zero Books Staff Start Repeater by Laurie Tuffrey, The Quietus , 29 November 2014
  3. 1 2 "Value Added Tax information for COLLECTIVE INK LIMITED: VAT Record: GB522381176". datalog.co.uk/. 1 September 2023.
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  6. 1 2 Suzanne Ruthven, Compass Points - The Pagan Writers' Guide: Writing for the Pagan and MB&S Markets (2013), p. 25, ISBN   1782791078
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  8. ↑ "The Quietus - News - Former Zero Books Staff Start Repeater".
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  10. ↑ A Review of Zen City by Publishers Weekly , June 2016
  11. ↑ Neglected or Misunderstood: The Radical Feminism of Shulamith Firestone.
  12. ↑ About Zero Books.
  13. 1 2 Susie Kearley, Freelance Writing On Health, Food and Gardens (2014), p. 121
  14. ↑ @RepeaterBooks (23 October 2021). "Repeater Books, the team that started and ran Zer0 for its first seven years, have bought Zer0 Books.The imprint…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  15. ↑ Wood, Heloise (25 October 2021). "Watkins… Media owner Ifield buys John Hunt Publishing". thebookseller.
  16. 1 2 "About JHP | An independent publisher. Independent Book Publishers". Collective Ink. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
  17. ↑ "Our Imprints -- John Hunt Publishing". johnhuntpublishing.com.
  18. 1 2 3 Suzanne Ruthven, Compass Points - The Pagan Writers' Guide: Writing for the Pagan and MB&S Markets (2013), p. 44, ISBN   1782791078
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