Niches, Pseudoniches,                  and New Niches   August 2013 by Curt Matthews   To begin at the beginning, what exactly is a publishing niche? It is one of the “20 Habits of Successful Independent Publishers” (as mentioned in my article with that title, available via ibpa-online.org), and defining it negatively, even if that is not …

PUBLISHED MAY 1996 by Curt Matthews, Independent Publishers Group I had a call the other day from an editor at Publishers Weekly who was researching an article about returns in the book trade. He wanted to know, from the independent press prospective, if returns were still running at the dreadful levels reached in the first …