Member Benefits
Monthly Town Halls
The IPC hosts Town Halls for independent publishers on the first Friday of every month at 1pm ET / 10am PT. We carefully choose relevant topics of discussion and invite knowledgeable guest experts to join the conversation. These conversations foster both community and knowledge-sharing among independent presses. Twice each year, these conversations are open to non-IPC members.
IPC Help Desk
The IPC Help Desk offers a unique one-on-one resource for member publishers to obtain high-level business and general publishing advice. Whether a publisher is looking to start a new imprint, evaluate distribution or printing alternatives, revamp its author agreements, track rights, analyze cash flow, build a strategic plan, or rise to any number of challenges, the esteemed industry professionals of the IPC Help Desk can help navigate the vicissitudes of running a small independent business in a confidential and effective way.
Indie-to-Indie
Each month, IPC sends the Indie-to-Indie newsletter to indie booksellers. It includes a themed playlist of titles, available galleys, and other promotions from member presses.
Twice a year, IPC creates a playlist of member titles for a display contest. The first five participants receive $50 in coop from IPC, and the best display receives a cash prize with half going to the store and half to the bookseller who created the display.
Industry Connections
IPC maintains and seeks out strong relationships across the book industry, from the American Booksellers Association (ABA) and regional bookstore associations, to printers and contractors, to the American Library Association (ALA) and Library Journal, and many others.
Industry Referral Listserv
IPC members receive access to an internal referral database. Industry services from freelance publicists to printers to audiobook producers are added to the list when recommended by members. Contact information for both service and the recommender allows member presses to follow up and learn more.
Conferences & Meetups
IPC regularly coordinates special pricing and offers for industry conferences, from BookFest to ALA Annual. When circumstances permit, the IPC will resume hosting informal meetups for indie publishers to foster networking and community building.
Small Groups
IPC facilitates several small groups for indie publishers to come together over a variety of issues including Sustainability, Advocacy, DEIA, Children’s Publishing, and Library Outreach. These groups meet to not only help guide IPC’s work, but to build solidarity and collaboration among member presses invested in this work at their individual presses, and in the wider book industry ecosystem.
Partnerships
IPC is in the midst of building out our strategic partnership offerings, which will give IPC members exclusive access to deals with vendors; early or discounted access to marketing opportunities; and/or discounted services through partners or other providers in the book industry and beyond.
Advocacy
IPC believes we are stronger together. By raising our collective voice, we have more power and influence with the media, award-granting literary institutions, and with libraries and booksellers and other cultural workers and institutions. Together can utilize our limited resources to benefit us all, maximizing our influence in the public domain, and ideally, our bottom-lines, too.
Join IPC.
Who can be an IPC member?
IPC defines an “independent publisher” for purposes of membership in IPC as a publisher of books, with no more than 60 employees on the one hand, and has a minimum of 10 books in print by not less than three authors on the other. Fully owned imprints at major houses would not qualify. IPC membership is subject to the initial approval of the Steering Committee, and membership may be terminated at-will at the discretion of the Steering Committee.
What are the member dues?
Dues are $250 for publishers with 1-3 employees, $425 for publishers with 4-9 employees, $525 for publishers with 10-50 employees, and $600 for 50-160 employees. Companies with more than 160 employees (in the US or Canada; international employees do not count against this cap) are not eligible to join IPC.
IPC is pleased to extend a free year of membership to BIPOC owned presses. If dues are a barrier to joining, please reach out, as IPC is open to payment plans and sliding scale dues for very small companies and nonprofits.
Questions?
Send an email to info@indiepubs.org.
New members, please sign up for membership below. We will invoice you your dues accordingly.
Current members, please renew your memberships through the member page.
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Our Members.
IPC members range in size, business model, genres, location, and more. They encompass some of the best indie presses working today.