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title: A Micro-Press Keeps the Long Essay Alive at 16 Pages
author: S. Grey
date: 2026-09-05
kicker: Books
subject: culture
template: article
excerpt: Paper, price of ink, and why short-run still sells.
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Paper, price of ink, and why short-run still sells. The micro-press prints a single essay a month, in an edition of four hundred, and has never once gone into a second printing.

Its publisher's theory is simple: scarcity is a feature, not a bug, when the writing is good.