Ligne éditoriale: Why PICT Books?
PICT Books is an independent, non-profit imprint in a monopolistic, for-profit publishing world. Our aim is to create a lasting contribution to the humanities, arts, and literature—a library of voices, perspectives, and knowledge that struggle to find a place in mainstream or academic publishing because they are deemed either unprofitable or inconvenient.
As in our Arts & Humanities course program, our guiding principle is to give our authors the mental and creative freedom to communicate their passion in whatever form, length, and language serves their purposes best, unencumbered by worries about how well the work might sell, how it might better appeal to the mainstream, or how it should be changed to fit a scholarly orthodoxy.
As a non-profit publisher, we are committed to offering our authors the fairest terms possible. In a publishing world based on the exploitation of authors, translators, and other creatives of the written word, we honor this commitment by passing on 60% of net revenues directly to them.
Like all our work at PICT, our imprint is animated by an amateur spirit; not in the English sense of dilettantism, but in the French sense of passionate volunteer enthusiasm. Every aspect of the editing and production process is painstakingly handled by PICT faculty on a non-profit basis, with the aim of producing library pieces that will stand the test of time in terms of content and form alike.
From publishing to academia, however inevitable any institutionalized system confronting us might seem, we as individuals can always bond in solidarity to produce alternatives to it. The only real inevitability is change, and PICT Books is thrilled to offer a concrete example of such change, an example that we hope will serve as inspiration to others.
In Solidarity,
Your PICT Team
2024