VOP BOOKS is an award-winning independent publisher dedicated to photography and visual culture discourse. Founded in Taipei in 2011, it began publishing Voices of Photography magazine and started releasing books on visual culture and photographic history, offering critical perspectives while continuing to promote the reading, writing, and research of photography.
Rusarban Studio is an independent publishing brand based in Taiwan, primarily focused on producing local BL (Boys' Love) comics and novels, while also introducing outstanding works from overseas. The founder wears multiple hats as a creator, graphic designer, and manager, bringing together talented artists to collaboratively craft books. The studio is dedicated to expanding the space for stories beyond mainstream gender narratives.
SCIFASAURUS was founded in 2014 as a publishing house specializing in fantasy and science fiction novels, comics, and games. The company is dedicated to developing original Taiwanese fantasy and sci-fi creations, nurturing potential original stories. SCIFASAURUS primarily focuses on its own intellectual properties (IPs), with over 35 titles under its belt. We are the first small publishing house in Taiwan to complete an ESG transformation, with all our publications fully FSC certified.
Fang Cun Cultural and Creative Inc. is committed to satisfying people's thirst for knowledge, answering readers' questions about life, catering to the public's appetite for visual enjoyment, making reading both beneficial and enjoyable.
FlyingWords Studio is run by two artistic creators of cross-cultural background, one from Taiwan and another from Hong Kong. They aim at fostering a creative space to encourage cross-cultural works of original writing accompanied by images. They create to let words, image and music fly freely.
Founded in 2014, Guerrilla Publishing Co., Ltd. is a vigorous independent publisher in Taiwan. Consisting of experienced editors as well as scholars and social activists, Guerrilla aims to bridge the intellectual gap between academia and civil society. We specialize in the humanities and social sciences and are devoted to ideological emancipation by means of publication. On the one hand, we are commiteed to publish excellent books written by Taiwanese researchers, ethnographers and journalists.
Open learning Publishing Co. were co-founded by a group of people who advocate knowledge liberation and civil society. Its ultimate goal is to activate local knowledge through the form of publication and social media, encourage the community to participate the production process of knowledge, to apply, circulate and even innovate them, in order to create an idol life environment, as well as improve the public governance mechanism.
