Our Story

Brightbound Books began in a narrow shopfront with a single printing press and an unfashionable idea: that a book should be as beautiful to hold as it is to read.

Twenty-five years later we’re still independent, still run by people who read for a living, and still printing books we’d be proud to keep on our own shelves. We publish around forty titles a year — fiction, poetry, history, science — and sell them alongside our favorites from presses we admire.

We believe a great book is a collaboration between writer, editor, designer, printer, and reader. Our job is to honor every link in that chain.