Thank you for coming to the site and reading the blog entries and taking a look at our catalogue, albeit small, since the company is so new. I wanted to post a few updates as to what is happening currently and for the rest of 2025.
In Canada, the state of the publishing industry is always the question on the minds of those deeply involved as there tends to be an air of uncertainty, especially since the digital age has, so heavily, played a role in it. This role though, may be the one aspect that can help protect the industry and provide a healthier profit margin for publishers as well as larger royalties for authors.
I first came into contact with Microcosm Publishing and its titles a few years ago in a dingy basement bookshop that no longer exists in Traverse City, Michigan. I couldn’t imagine that there would be so many books of interest to me in such a small store. The young man that was working there turned me on to several of Microcosm’s titles and this was one of the sparks that helped to start the fire to start Lost Telegram Press.
Countless public meetings of governments all over the world, community groups, and basically anyone that has ties to something relating to economics, information and the humanities has been discussing the integration of AI into the world. Immediately all I think of is NFTs and crypto and in a way I can see how this is a distraction from the personal relationship with books.
The ‘book’ is just a concept. It is nothing more. It can be anything once that idea is understood.
