Founded by editor Gayla Groom, Gems Press resurrects and republishes selected out-of-print books, and also creates collections of curated gems of information resurrected from old books and documents. We usually make the new versions available as free ebooks.
We don’t think books deserve to die just because they get old, and/or just because nobody can make any money selling them. That said, many books become irrelevant over time, and many were never really worth the paper they were written on. Let’s not romanticize those. We agree with Theodore Sturgeon that 90 percent of everything is crap. He was reacting to someone complain that science fiction was crap, and he was pointing out that all genres are rife with writing that does not deserve to survive.
So yes we’re judgmental. We don’t suffer fools gladly. If we’re going to put in the hours to bring you back to life, you’d better clean up smart and shiny.
We don’t want anything keeping readers from the books that deserve to live on — we want to give them the fullest audience we reasonably can. So they’re digital, and they’re free.
If you like what we’re doing and want to show your appreciation with cash, that’s very useful, thank you. The donation goes to Gayla Groom’s Paypal account.
Suggestions? You can contact us by email at contact (at) gemspress.earth.
