Impermanent Press

1450 (?) — Gutenberg (Johannes the printer, not Steve) invents moveable type.

1975 (?) — The 525-year promise of print is finally fulfilled when The Permanent Press is founded. It has been foundering ever since.

The Permanent Press was conceived by a pair of leatherbound book lovers (B. Wright Bacque and Javier K. Caneeda II) and became their illegitimate brainchild. Let this serve as a copyright warning to those who would reproduce without protection.

Under this imprint, a number of non-existent but real-sounding books were published, including:

From our HiBrowser Books division: Diaria Philosopheces, by Gnome Chomsky
From our Shakespeareology division: Bard to Tears, by Toby Ornotoby
From our Get Out of Town division: Europe on 24 Hours a Day, by Bambi Dextrous
From our Business Books division: The One-Minute Dictator, Bob Appetit
From our Science Fiction division: Kiss Uranus Goodbye, by L. Ron Hubbub
From our Feminist division: End Me Your Leers: The WoManifesto, by Rose Bloomoff
From our Masculinist division: Dances with Women Who Run with the Wolves, by Freida Stare
From our Go Help Yourself division: When Good People Write Bad Checks, by Perry Noya

1997 brought about a major crisis, as the owner and publisher realized that although the name "The Permanent Press" was clever when first chosen, it was just so damn clever that there were now over a dozen small presses in the U.S. using the same (now less-than-clever) name. As Chief Editor T. Earl Gray quipped, "Imitation is the sincerest form of confusion."

Finding a new name was imperative. Many were discussed long and hard by our master debaters. The "Imim Press" was a frontrunner, as was "The Nosuchthingasbad Press," "The Prints of Darkness Press" and "Apprentice Hall." Had we published any computer manuals, we would now perhaps be known as the "Anykey Press."

It took the brilliant insight of our corporate Zen Psychiatrist, Dr. Jacques Therapy, to indicate the obvious: "If za Permanent Press vas impermanent," he queried, "zen vhut vill be permanent ? And, lo, we were reborn as...The Impermanent Press.

Our legend has just begun. As far as we know.

Our motto (multiple choice):

"Quality literature since...oh, about five o'clock."
"Quality literature? I gotcher quality literature right here, bud!"
"Literature so cutting-edge we can't sell to hemophiliacs!"
"Avant garbage!"

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