Our Mission and Goals
A project of The Imaginal Institute, Meandering Press is committed to the imaginative, sustainable production and dissemination of written and multi-media work and specialty items which celebrate the imagination.
Goals and Objectives
- To create, publish, and retail materials on imagination that are qualitative, entertaining, challenging, including published text (fiction and nonfiction), electronic text, audio and visual recordings, and associated gift items.
- To commit to sustainable business practices, including green printing and support of other small businesses, particularly independent bookstores and media outlets.
- To build an innovative, profitable, sustainable company.
- To bridge the gap between academic and commercial publishing.
- To build a next generation hybrid of book publisher and retailer.
- To explore new technologies in text and multimedia publishing, breaking boundaries while being committed to quality.
- To provide a base of support for creatives and intellectuals working ideas on imagination by providing accessible publishing.
- To create a viable e-commerce website, with a strong, loyal customer base.
- To develop and pursue creative marketing avenues for products.
- To explore and penetrate nontraditional book outlets.
- To emerge as an important small press, making the imaginal accessible to a wide audience.
- To make large enough profit margins to provide ongoing financial support to the non-income producing activities of the Imaginal Institute.
- To bring important, interesting, and engaging books back into print.
- To utilize cutting edge technology to bring small but important books to market.
- To develop cutting edge business models that reflect new dynamics in the publishing industry, gaining wisdom from retail, e-commerce, and multi-media companies.
- To build careful relationships and networks with other presses and businesses engaged in the dissemination of ideas about creativity, myth, poiesis, and imagination.
