Zed Books


Zed Books is an independent non-fiction publishing company based in London, UK. It was founded in 1977 under the name Zed Press by Roger van Zwanenberg.
Zed publishes books for an international audience of both general and academic readers, covering areas such as politics and global current affairs, economics, gender studies and sexualities, development studies and the environment.

Zed today

Zed Books' business model and structure are unique to the publishing industry. It is the world's largest English-language publishing collective. The company is owned and managed as a non-hierarchical co-operative by its workers, without any shareholders. It publishes around 70 books per year, providing many to the academic market and to university courses.
In 2019 Zed received the Independent Publishers Guild Alison Morrison Diversity Award.

Authors

Zed's authors include Nawal El Saadawi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Assata Shakur, Yanis Varoufakis, Vandana Shiva, Maggie Nelson, Ece Temelkuran and Paul French, as well as hundreds of internationally respected journalists and academics.