A People's Guide to Publishing
Building a Successful, Sustainable, Meaningful Book Business From the Ground Up
2nd Edition
Published on 24. February 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-62106-295-0 (ISBN)
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Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62106-295-0 (9781621062950)
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Joe Biel
People's Guide to Publishing
Building a Successful, Sustainable, Meaningful Book Business from the Ground Up
E-Book
12/2018
Microcosm Publishing
€14.49
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Persons
Joe Biel is a self-made autistic publisher and filmmaker who draws origins, inspiration, and methods from punk rock to sell millions of books. Biel is the founder and CEO of Microcosm Publishing, Publishers Weekly's #1 fastest-growing publisher of 2022 and #3 in 2023/2024, and WorkingLit, the software responsible for Microcosm's aforementioned success--now available for other publishers. Biel has been featured in Time, Esquire, Art of Autism, Reading Glasses, Bulletproof Radio, Spectator (Japan), G33K (Korea), and Maximum Rocknroll, as well as NPR and PBS. Biel is the author of A People's Guide to Publishing, Autism Relationships Handbook, Unfuck Your Business, Enduring Legacy of Portland's Black Panthers, and dozens more. Biel is the director of five feature films and hundreds of short films, including Aftermass: Bicycling in a Post-Critical Mass Portland, $100 & a T-Shirt, and the Groundswell series. Biel lives in Portland, OR.