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launched in 2007. It was formed from the consolidation of three presses: Perseus' Counterpoint Press, Shoemaker & Hoard, and Soft Skull Press. The company published books under both the Counterpoint Press and Soft Skull Press imprints. Counterpoint also entered into an agreement for the
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In 2007, Richard Nash, who had taken Soft Skull over from Hicks in 2001, sold the publisher to Counterpoint, who closed Soft Skull's New York operation in 2010.
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in 2016. Subsequently, Soft Skull reopened its New York office with Yuka Igarashi as editor-in-chief, and began to reissue backlist books. These included
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book publisher founded by Sander Hicks in 1992, and run by Yuka Igarashi since 2017.
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were investors in Counterpoint, with both having works published by the imprint.
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production, marketing, and distribution of approximately eight
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Counterpoint merged into fellow publisher Catapult in 2016.
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The publisher has since acquired and published new works.
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Book publishing companies based in Berkeley, California
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