Books without Bosses: Forty Years of Reading Between the Lines

by Robert Clarke

Can a small publishing company that offers an alternative viewpoint on social issues survive in an industry dominated by international giants? In 1980 a Quill and Quire writer asked that thorny question. Well, here s the answer. Decades after its founding, Between the Lines is still definitely, defiantly, delivering those alternative viewpoints, and much more. Books without Bosses a graphic history provides a serio-comic glimpse of the publisher s forty checkered years (so far). Founded in November 1977 as a cooperative venture of two against-the-grain outfits with sixties roots (Dumont Press Graphix in Kitchener and the Development Education Centre in Toronto), Between the Lines remains one of a kind. From its first book The Big Inco at Home and Abroad to today s award-winning titles, it has indeed survived as one author put it, publishing outside the mainstream, ensuring alternative voices are heard loud and clear!

64 pages, Paperback

Published October 3, 2017