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| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | AK Press | A worker-managed independent book publisher and distributor specializing in anarchist, radical-left, labor, abolition, and social-movement books. AK Press scores among the best true book-publisher entries because workers control the press and the catalog openly serves dissent rather than investor scale. | worker-owned independent book publisher and distributor | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -2 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Alliance of Independent Authors | A nonprofit membership association for independent authors, providing advocacy, education, watchdog guidance, and self-publishing standards. ALLi scores well because it helps writers navigate the market without becoming another extraction gate. | nonprofit independent-author association and watchdog | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 6 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| G | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing | Amazon’s dominant ebook, paperback, hardcover, and Kindle Unlimited self-publishing platform for authors. It gives authors reach, but that reach is bought through deep dependence on Amazon’s ranking, retail, exclusivity, and account-control power. | self-publishing platform | Medium confidence (AI) | Amazon | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -5 | -1 | 0 | -2 | -4 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -2 | -3 | -2 | ||||
| G | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Apple Books for Authors | Apple’s author platform for publishing ebooks and audiobooks to Apple Books. It adds useful distribution, but Apple’s closed ecosystem and platform control limit author sovereignty. | ebook and audiobook publishing platform | Medium confidence (AI) | Apple | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | -4 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -2 | -2 | ||||
| b | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Atticus | Web-based writing and book-formatting software for independent authors. Atticus has author-infrastructure value because it improves production capacity, though hosted dependence makes it less durable than local tools. | book-writing and formatting software | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 4 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | -1 | 0 | |||||
| G | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Audible ACX | Amazon/Audible’s audiobook production and distribution marketplace connecting authors, narrators, producers, and Audible retail channels. It solves real audiobook problems, but authors pay for access through Amazon dependence, exclusivity pressure, and royalty constraints. | audiobook production and distribution marketplace | Medium confidence (AI) | Amazon | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -5 | -1 | 0 | -1 | -4 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -2 | -3 | -2 | ||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Author Solutions | An author-services company associated with self-publishing imprints such as AuthorHouse, iUniverse, Xlibris, and related assisted-publishing brands. Author Solutions scores low because vulnerable author aspiration can be converted into expensive, low-leverage packages. | author-services and vanity-publishing company | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -3 | -1 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Authors Guild | A nonprofit professional association advocating for writers’ rights, contracts, copyright, free expression, and author income. Authors Guild scores positively because it increases writer bargaining power against publishers, platforms, and AI/data extraction. | professional association for authors | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 6 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| b | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Autonomous Press | A worker-owned independent publishing house publishing fiction and nonfiction that challenge cultural norms, with a visible neurodivergent/outsider-literature orientation. It is B-worthy because worker ownership and neglected voices matter, though small scale and limited public governance detail keep it below AK Press. | worker-owned independent book publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Barnes & Noble Press | Barnes & Noble’s self-publishing platform for ebooks and print books sold through B&N channels. It gives authors another retail path, but remains a retailer-controlled channel rather than independent author infrastructure. | bookseller self-publishing platform | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Beacon Press | A nonprofit book publisher under the Unitarian Universalist Association, publishing religion, politics, race, education, disability, environment, literature, and social-justice books. Beacon Press sits near the B/C boundary because nonprofit public-interest value is real, but denominational control and ideological clustering limit broad accountability. | nonprofit book publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | Unitarian Universalist Association | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -2 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Bertelsmann | A large private media conglomerate that wholly owns Penguin Random House and other media, services, and education businesses. It keeps publishing infrastructure alive at scale, but author, reader, and worker power remain subordinate to centralized conglomerate control. | private media and publishing conglomerate | High confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | -2 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Bitterroot Books | A cooperative author- and worker-owned book publisher focused on rural American nonfiction, underserved stories, and shared author economics. Bitterroot sits near the B/A edge because authors and workers share the institution, but it is too new and small to score as a proven A anchor yet. | author- and worker-owned cooperative publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 10 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Bloomsbury Publishing | An independent public publisher of trade, academic, professional, and children’s books, known globally for major fiction and nonfiction lists. Bloomsbury scores above the Big Five because it remains independent, though shareholder control still caps the structural score. | independent public book publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 | -2 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Blurb | A print-on-demand and self-publishing platform for photo books, trade books, magazines, wall art, and bookstore distribution. Blurb has production-tool value, though pricing and private-platform dependence keep it below stronger author-controlled options. | self-publishing and print-on-demand platform | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | BookBaby | A self-publishing services company offering editing, design, printing, ebook conversion, distribution, and author websites. It can be useful, but paid service bundles create more risk of author overpayment than leaner direct tools. | self-publishing services company | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | BookFunnel | An author platform for ebook delivery, reader magnets, review copies, direct sales delivery, and reader support. BookFunnel scores well because it strengthens direct author-reader relationships without taking publishing rights. | author delivery and reader-magnet platform | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 4 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | -1 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Bookshare / Benetech | A Benetech nonprofit service providing accessible ebooks for people with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers. Bookshare scores strongly because it turns copyright and format barriers into usable reading access, while eligibility verification and platform dependence keep it below a fully universal public library. | nonprofit accessible-ebook library | High confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 7 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Bookshop.org | An ecommerce platform that sells books online while sharing revenue with independent bookstores. Bookshop.org scores well because its structure routes online demand back toward local bookstores instead of concentrating book retail inside Amazon-style platform power. | independent-bookstore ecommerce platform | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 5 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Bowker / MyIdentifiers | The U.S. ISBN agency and book metadata service selling ISBNs and related publishing identifiers to authors and publishers. Bowker scores weakly because a quasi-essential publishing identifier is sold through a private tollgate. | ISBN and book metadata service | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Boydell & Brewer | An independent employee-owned humanities and social-science publisher with scholarly imprints and publishing partnerships. Boydell & Brewer sits near the B/C boundary because employee ownership and independence help, while scholarly-market access limits and partial transparency keep it from being clearly good. | employee-owned academic book publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 8 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Cambridge University Press & Assessment | The University of Cambridge’s publishing and assessment organization, combining academic publishing, education, English learning, and exams. University stewardship helps, but assessment power and credential dependence make the institution less benign than a simple press. | university press and assessment organization | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 5 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 | -2 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Coffee House Press | A nonprofit literary publisher of fiction, poetry, essays, translation, and hybrid work. Coffee House Press scores above most trade publishers because its mission supports literary value without requiring blockbuster extraction. | nonprofit literary publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 6 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Coil | A discontinued private web-monetization platform that used memberships and streaming micropayments to fund creators through the Web Monetization standard. Coil was directionally better than surveillance advertising because it paid creators without behavioral ad targeting, but it was closed, company-controlled, and ultimately not durable. | discontinued creator-monetization platform | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Consumer Reports | An independent nonprofit testing and advocacy group selling memberships and product information, focused on consumer safety, fairness, and transparency. Consumer Reports scores well because its informational power is aimed at reducing consumer vulnerability rather than capturing attention. | independent nonprofit member organization | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Partial (AI) | 8 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Creative Commons | A nonprofit commons steward providing open licenses and public-domain tools for shared knowledge, culture, and creative reuse. Creative Commons scores well because it expands what people can share and build without creating a private tollgate. | international nonprofit commons steward | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Partial (AI) | 8 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Draft2Digital | An author-facing distribution platform for ebooks, print, storefronts, and library/retail channels, including Smashwords. Draft2Digital scores comparatively well because it reduces retailer lock-in without claiming ownership of authors’ work. | independent ebook and print distribution platform | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 4 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Elsevier | A RELX-owned academic publishing and analytics business operating journals, databases, clinical tools, and research intelligence products. Elsevier is a low academic-publishing anchor because public research value is enclosed behind pricing, metrics, and institutional lock-in. | academic publishing and analytics company | Medium confidence (AI) | RELX | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -2 | -2 | -3 | ||||
| G | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Findaway Voices / Spotify for Authors | Spotify’s audiobook author platform, including distribution and author tools descended from Findaway Voices. It is valuable as a non-Audible path, but Spotify ownership pulls author infrastructure into a larger attention and platform strategy. | audiobook distribution and production platform | Medium confidence (AI) | Spotify | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | -4 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -3 | -2 | ||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Ghost Foundation | A nonprofit open-source publishing platform for independent publishers, newsletters, memberships, and websites. Ghost scores among the best author-platform entries because it gives publishers durable infrastructure without locking them into a closed attention platform. | nonprofit open-source publishing platform | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 8 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Gibbs Smith | An employee-owned certified B Corp independent book publisher producing design, cooking, children’s, gift, and K-12 educational books. Gibbs Smith scores as a solid B conventional publisher because employee ownership and mission-locking improve the structure, while school-market exposure and non-democratic ESOP limits keep it below A. | employee-owned independent book publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 8 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | -1 | 0 | |||||
| G | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Google Play Books Partner Center | Google’s publishing portal for ebooks and audiobooks sold through Google Play Books. It expands distribution, but Google’s platform power and data ecosystem make it structurally ambivalent. | ebook and audiobook publishing platform | Medium confidence (AI) | Google / Alphabet | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | -4 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -4 | -2 | ||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Graywolf Press | A nonprofit independent literary publisher known for poetry, essays, fiction, translation, and literary nonfiction. Graywolf scores well because nonprofit structure protects culturally valuable work that market publishing often neglects. | nonprofit literary publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 6 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Hachette Book Group | A major trade publisher owned through Hachette Livre and Lagardère, publishing adult, children’s, and audio imprints. Its catalog has real value, but the institution remains a conglomerate publisher where authors and workers have limited power. | major trade book publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | Lagardère / Hachette Livre | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 | -1 | ||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | HarperCollins | A major global trade publisher owned by News Corp, with adult, children’s, religious, and international publishing imprints. It produces useful books, but its parent ownership and conventional publishing hierarchy make it a weaker option than independent or mission-locked alternatives. | major trade book publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | News Corp | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 | -1 | ||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Haymarket Books | A nonprofit independent publisher focused on social justice, politics, labor, history, and public-interest nonfiction. Haymarket scores well because its nonprofit structure and openly dissenting catalog serve public education rather than conglomerate market capture. | nonprofit independent publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 6 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Holtzbrinck Publishing Group | A family-owned publishing group behind Macmillan, Springer Nature interests, Digital Science, and other publishing and research businesses. It has meaningful editorial and scholarly infrastructure, but control is family-concentrated rather than democratically accountable to authors, workers, libraries, or readers. | family-owned publishing group | High confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Informa | A public information, academic markets, business intelligence, and events company that owns Taylor & Francis. It supports scholarly and professional publishing, but control and pricing power remain concentrated in a shareholder-governed information business. | public information, academic, and events company | High confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | IngramSpark | An Ingram Content Group self-publishing platform for print-on-demand, ebook distribution, and bookstore/library channel access. IngramSpark has real author utility, but it remains a private gate into distribution channels rather than author-controlled infrastructure. | self-publishing distribution and print-on-demand platform | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Internet Archive | A nonprofit digital library preserving web pages, books, software, media, and public cultural memory through open access infrastructure. Internet Archive scores well because it preserves access against both market neglect and platform disappearance. | nonprofit digital library | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Partial (AI) | 8 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Island Press | A nonprofit environmental book publisher focused on ecology, conservation, urban sustainability, climate resilience, and healthy communities. Island Press scores as a strong B publisher because it turns expert environmental knowledge into public tools, though nonprofit hierarchy and foundation dependence limit structural accountability. | nonprofit environmental book publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 7 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Kobo Writing Life | Rakuten Kobo’s self-publishing platform for authors distributing ebooks and audiobooks to Kobo readers and partners. Kobo Writing Life earns partial credit as a counterweight to Amazon, but authors remain dependent on a private retail platform. | ebook self-publishing platform | Medium confidence (AI) | Rakuten Group | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | -1 | ||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Lagardère / Hachette Livre | A large trade and educational publishing group behind Hachette Livre and Hachette Book Group. It preserves book-publishing capacity, but the parent structure concentrates editorial and market power far from authors, workers, and readers. | publishing and media group | High confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | -2 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Leanpub | A publishing platform for in-progress books, technical books, courses, bundles, and author direct sales. Leanpub scores well because it supports iterative, direct publishing with comparatively low capture. | author-focused publishing platform | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 4 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Little Free Library | A nonprofit that supports neighborhood book-sharing boxes and programs to expand informal access to books. Little Free Library scores well because it creates low-friction local reading access and civic generosity, though it is supplemental infrastructure rather than a full library system. | nonprofit neighborhood book-sharing network | High confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 7 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Lulu | A self-publishing and print-on-demand platform for books, ebooks, calendars, photo books, and direct sales. Lulu receives partial positive credit because it supports direct production, though platform pricing and private control still matter. | self-publishing and print-on-demand platform | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Macmillan Publishers | A major trade publisher owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, with adult, children’s, educational, and audio imprints. Macmillan sits in the middle of the publisher spectrum because its useful books are governed through private conglomerate stewardship rather than democratic or public accountability. | major trade book publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | Holtzbrinck Publishing Group | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 | -2 | ||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Manning Publications | An independent publisher of software, data, AI, and technical books and liveBooks. Manning receives a qualified positive score because its products are useful, while private ownership and platform features cap the rating. | independent technical book publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Medium | An online publishing and membership platform for essays, blogs, publications, and partner-program writing. Medium is accessible and useful, but algorithmic distribution and membership economics keep writers inside a private attention platform. | online publishing platform | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -5 | -1 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -2 | -2 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | No Starch Press | An independent publisher of programming, security, science, technology, and maker books. No Starch scores well because it sells durable technical books without turning learning into platform lock-in. | independent technical book publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 4 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| b | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Open Books | A Chicago nonprofit literacy organization operating community bookstores that sell donated books, provide free children's books and affordable adult titles, and fund youth, family, and neighborhood literacy work. It scores this way because nonprofit book reuse and literacy access are stronger than ordinary bookstore retail, while public evidence does not show worker ownership or a full public institution. | nonprofit literacy bookstore | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 7 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Oxford University Press | The University of Oxford’s publishing department, producing academic, educational, reference, and English-language learning materials. University stewardship softens the extraction common in commercial academic publishing, but the institution remains hierarchical, market-facing, and only indirectly accountable to readers or authors. | university press | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 5 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | O’Reilly Media | A technical publisher and learning platform known for books, conferences, online learning, and professional education. O’Reilly scores relatively well among professional publishers because its products are practical and low-harm, though subscription platform control limits the score. | technical publishing and learning company | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 4 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | -2 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Packt | A technical publisher and learning platform focused on software, data, security, cloud, and professional technology books. Packt has real learning utility, but its high-volume platform model and variable quality make it weaker than more carefully curated technical publishers. | technical publisher and learning platform | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Pearson | A global education company selling textbooks, learning platforms, assessments, and professional credential products. It sits in a sensitive dependency position because students and schools often cannot bargain like ordinary consumers. | education publishing and assessment company | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -2 | -2 | -3 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Penguin Random House | A global trade book publisher owned by Bertelsmann, publishing major fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and audiobook imprints. Its books can be culturally valuable, but conglomerate control and author bargaining asymmetry keep that value structurally compromised. | major trade book publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | Bertelsmann | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 | -1 | ||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | PM Press | An independent radical book publisher founded in 2007, publishing literature, politics, history, labor, antifascism, anarchism, gender, race, and social-movement books. PM Press sits near the B/C boundary because the catalog has high dissent value, but public evidence of democratic ownership is weaker than AK Press or cooperative publishers. | independent radical book publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 5 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -2 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | PublishDrive | A self-publishing distribution platform offering ebook, print, and audiobook distribution, royalty tools, and author analytics. PublishDrive has author-infrastructure value where it reduces single-platform dependence, though analytics and subscription economics remain capture points. | ebook and print distribution platform | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Publisher Rocket | Author market-research software focused on Amazon keywords, categories, competition, and advertising research. Publisher Rocket has practical author utility, but it is morally narrower than production tools because it helps writers adapt to Amazon’s ranking and ad incentives. | author market-research software | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Reedsy | A marketplace and toolset connecting authors with editors, designers, marketers, ghostwriters, and free book-production tools. Reedsy can increase author agency, but marketplace intermediation still shapes who gets visibility and work. | author marketplace and publishing tools platform | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 4 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | RELX | A public information, analytics, risk, and publishing company behind Elsevier and LexisNexis Risk Solutions. RELX has useful scholarly and legal information products, but paywalled knowledge power and risk-data products keep its parent evaluation low. | public analytics, publishing, and data company | High confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | -4 | -2 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | SAGE Publishing | An independent academic publisher of journals, books, courseware, and social-science research resources. SAGE scores above the harshest academic-publishing incumbents because it is independent and mission-shaped, but academic access barriers still matter. | independent academic publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | -2 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Scholastic | A public children’s publisher and school-market company known for book fairs, classroom materials, clubs, and educational media. It brings books to children at scale, but youth-market leverage and school-channel dependence make the power relation more troubling than ordinary retail publishing. | children’s book publisher and school-market company | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 | -2 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Scrivener / Literature & Latte | Long-form writing software used by novelists, nonfiction authors, academics, screenwriters, and other writers. Scrivener scores well because it supports durable creative work without royalty capture or platform distribution dependence. | writing software company | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 4 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Semipublic | A small author-oriented publishing services studio focused on direct, independent, and creator-controlled publishing infrastructure. Semipublic scores well as a small author-service entry because its work points toward author autonomy rather than platform capture. | independent author publishing infrastructure studio | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Seven Stories Press | An independent publisher of fiction, political nonfiction, children’s books, and public-interest books. Seven Stories scores well because it keeps dissenting and public-interest books alive outside conglomerate incentives. | independent book publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 4 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Simon & Schuster | A major trade publisher acquired by KKR in 2023 after being sold by Paramount Global. The publishing work may be valuable, but private-equity ownership is a serious structural negative for authors, workers, and long-term cultural stewardship. | major trade book publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | KKR | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 | -1 | ||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Smashwords | An indie ebook marketplace and distribution platform now operated with Draft2Digital. It remains a useful author-friendly channel because it broadens distribution without forcing authors into one dominant retailer. | indie ebook marketplace and distribution platform | Medium confidence (AI) | Draft2Digital | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 4 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | -1 | ||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Springer Nature | A major academic and scientific publisher operating Springer, Nature Portfolio, BMC, Palgrave Macmillan, and research platforms. It publishes important research, but commercial control over scholarly communication makes public knowledge more expensive and less free than it should be. | academic and scientific publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -2 | -1 | -2 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | StoryOrigin | An author platform for newsletter swaps, group promotions, reader magnets, review copies, universal links, and author collaboration. StoryOrigin remains weak because of person-dependent governance, material opacity, and identity capture, even where the product or service has practical value. | author marketing and collaboration platform | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | StreetLib | A global self-publishing and distribution platform for ebooks, print, audiobooks, and storefront services. StreetLib receives partial positive credit because it broadens reach, but private intermediation still sits between authors and readers. | ebook, print, and audiobook distribution platform | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Substack | A newsletter, podcast, subscription, and community platform for independent writers and media creators. It gives writers monetization power, but platform dependence and personality-market incentives make it less liberating than it first appears. | newsletter and subscription publishing platform | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | -5 | -2 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -3 | -2 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Taylor & Francis | An Informa-owned academic and professional publisher operating journals, books, Routledge, CRC Press, and digital platforms. It has real knowledge value, but commercial academic publishing turns research dependence into institutional pricing power. | academic and professional publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | Informa | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -2 | -1 | -2 | ||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | The New Press | A nonprofit public-interest book publisher focused on criminal justice, education, labor, immigration, racial equity, democracy, and social change. The New Press scores as a strong B publisher because the books are mission-driven and union-adjacent, though governance is not worker- or author-controlled. | nonprofit public-interest book publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 7 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -2 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Vellum | Mac software used by independent authors and publishers to format ebooks and print books. Vellum scores well because it sells production capability directly without taking rights, royalties, or reader relationships. | book-formatting software | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 4 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Verso Books | An independent publisher focused on critical theory, politics, history, and left public-interest nonfiction. Verso has real dissenting-publishing value, though its private structure and ideological niche make it less broadly accountable than the best nonprofit models. | independent political publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 4 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | W. W. Norton | An employee-owned publisher selling textbooks and trade books, with editorial independence value, pricing questions, and limited democratic worker control. Norton scores above ordinary conglomerate publishing because ownership sits closer to workers, while textbook-market pricing and hierarchy keep it below stronger democratic models. | employee-owned publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Partial (AI) | 6 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Wikimedia Foundation | A nonprofit steward of Wikipedia and related public-knowledge projects, with donor funding, volunteer production, and movement governance tensions. Wikimedia scores as one of the strongest knowledge-infrastructure entries because its usefulness is broad, nonproprietary, and only lightly mediated by market power. | nonprofit | High confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 5 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Wiley | A public academic, education, and professional publishing company serving research, learning, and professional markets. Its knowledge products matter, but access barriers and academic-market extraction make it a poor steward of public research compared with open alternatives. | academic, education, and professional publisher | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 | -2 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Paper magazine | A culture publication with an active web presence and advertising/partnership contact channel. Reported 2017 acquisition evidence places PAPER under ENTtech Media Group, so ordinary review should focus on media ownership, advertising, labor, and editorial practices rather than Drag Race prize visibility. | culture magazine and early Drag Race photo-spread prize partner | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) |