Zed Books
Zed Books is a non-fiction publishing company based in London, UK. It was founded in 1977 under the name Zed Press by Roger van Zwanenberg. Zed publishes books for an international audience of both general and academic readers, covering areas such as politics and global current affairs, economics, gender studies and sexualities, development studies and the environment.
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Zed Books
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- 1977
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- London
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Zed Books is a non-fiction publishing company based in London, UK. It was founded in 1977 under the name Zed Press by Roger van Zwanenberg. Zed publishes books for an international audience of both general and academic readers, covering areas such as politics and global current affairs, economics, gender studies and sexualities, development studies and the environment.
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• Founder — Bloomsbury Publishing • Country — United Kingdom • Headquarters — London, • Distribution — NBN International (most of world) Chicago Distribution Center (Americas) • Publications — Books • Topics — Politics, economics, gender studies, development studies, environment • Url — http: www.zedbooks.net
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Until 2020, Zed Books was organized as a worker-owned cooperative. In March 2020, it was announced that "certain assets of Zed Books Limited" had been acquired by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. for 1.5 million and that Zed would operate within Bloomsbury's Academic & Professional division as "a good strategic fit with Bloomsbury's existing publishing lists".
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- 1.Sales representation and distribution
- 2.Roger van Zwanenberg. dofdifference.org.
- 3.Bridle, James. When Yanis Varoufakis stepped up, so did Zed Books…. The Guardian. 2015-03-22. 0261-3077.
- 4.Biswas, Vidisha. Bloomsbury Acquires Zed Books' Assets. Zed Blog. 21 March 2020.
- 5.Cowdrey, Katherine. Zed list moves to Bloomsbury. The Bookseller. 20 March 2020.
- 6.Adewunmi, Bim. Assata Shakur: from civil rights activist to FBI's most-wanted. The Guardian. 2014-07-13. 0261-3077.
- 7.Hern, Alex. Publisher's Facebook page deleted after posting criticism of Turkish government. The Guardian. 2016-05-13. 0261-3077.
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