About Counterpoint


	COUNTERPOINT LLC is a new publishing venture created through the acquisition of three notable independent presses: Counterpoint, Shoemaker & Hoard, and Soft Skull Press. As of January 2008, the company has begun publishing under two imprints: Counterpoint and Soft Skull Press. Shoemaker & Hoard books will transition to being published as Counterpoint books. Also beginning in January, Counterpoint will publish books in association with Sierra Club Books. Counterpoint publishes fiction, literature, and poetry in addition to nonfiction, including history, memoir, biography, and nature. Soft Skull publishes contemporary fiction, as well as graphic novels, and nonfiction, including current affairs, counterculture, and politics. Sierra Club Books publishes books on environmental topics. The company’s primary office will be in Berkeley, California, and it will maintain an editorial office in New York City. Sierra Club Books is based in San Francisco. Counterpoint books are distributed by Publishers Group West, a division of the Perseus Books Group.
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COUNTERPOINT LLC is a new publishing venture created through the acquisition of three notable independent presses: Counterpoint, Shoemaker & Hoard, and Soft Skull Press. As of January 2008, the company has begun publishing under two imprints: Counterpoint and Soft Skull Press. Shoemaker & Hoard books will transition to being published as Counterpoint books. Also beginning in January, Counterpoint will publish books in association with Sierra Club Books.

Counterpoint publishes fiction, literature, and poetry in addition to nonfiction, including history, memoir, biography, and nature. Soft Skull publishes contemporary fiction, as well as graphic novels, and nonfiction, including current affairs, counterculture, and politics. Sierra Club Books publishes books on environmental topics.

The company’s primary office will be in Berkeley, California, and it will maintain an editorial office in New York City. Sierra Club Books is based in San Francisco.

Counterpoint books are distributed by Publishers Group West, a division of the Perseus Books Group.