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  1. Nov 2025
    1. leads directly to competition for library funds

      I see how more players in the field can lead to competition over limited resources, it will be interesting to me to see how being extremely supportive and open with their methods with the intention of helping others do what they've done can remain as a focus with this limitation in mind.

    2. download statistics and the increasing number, year after year, of authors who come to us with their work

      I am interested in how scaling up is different from increasing the output of a press this significantly, which I don't fully understand. Does this mean drastically increasing efficiency?

    3. such tiny event

      This doesn't seem to me to be a tiny event at all, but I see what they mean. The appearance of these presses opening up possibilities that were not even considered before, which is exciting.

    4. punctum books

      I found out that apparently a punctum is "a small, distinct point," or according to Oxford Reference "A term used by Barthes to refer to an incidental but personally poignant detail in a photograph which ‘pierces’ or ‘pricks’ a particular viewer, constituting a private meaning unrelated to any cultural code." I like this a lot as a press name!