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| Founded | 2009 |
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| Founder | John Oakes and Colin Robinson |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York City, New York |
| Distribution | Consortium Book Sales |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | www |
OR Books is a New York City-based independent publishing house founded by John Oakes and Colin Robinson in 2009.[1] The company sells digital and print-on-demand books directly to the customer and focuses on creative promotion through traditional media and the Internet.[2] On its site, OR Books states that it "embraces progressive change in politics, culture and the way we do business."
Not long after its founding in 2009, OR Books became known for publishing Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare, a parody of Palin's autobiography Going Rogue: An American Life. Going Rouge became a best-seller as per The New York Times. Since then, the company has published books by Julian Assange, Moustafa Bayoumi, Medea Benjamin, Patrick Cockburn, Sue Coe, Simon Critchley, Lisa Dierbeck, Ariel Dorfman, Norman Finkelstein, Laura Flanders, Chris Lehmann, Gordon Lish, Bill McKibben, Eileen Myles, Yoko Ono, Barney Rosset, Douglas Rushkoff, Elissa Shevinsky, Burhan Sönmez, Jeanne Thornton, Slavoj Žižek, and others.
- ^ "Betting on e-books". Crain's New York Business on the founding of OR Books, July 12, 2009.
- ^ "Oakes ’83 connects readers directly to a publisher", Princeton Alumni Weekly, March 2, 2011.