Work with the Press
The Press writes for designers, zinesters and independent publishers, and it reviews the tools they buy. There are exactly two honest ways to work with it, set out below, followed by the list of things that are not for sale.
Terms of trade: affiliate programmes and labelled sponsorship. Nothing else, and never a place in a guide.
Affiliate partnerships
The Press is open to standard affiliate programmes (Impact, Awin, PartnerStack, CJ, Partnerize or direct) for vendors whose tools genuinely fit the Guides; a guide that carries a tracked link says so. Being in a programme buys nothing: inclusion, rankings and top picks are editorial, per the colophon. If your tool belongs in a guide it will be there whether you pay or not; if it does not, no programme will put it there. Vendors are welcome to point the Press at their programme.
Sponsorship
Clearly-labelled sponsorship is available: a “Supported by” credit around the guides. Every sponsored placement is labelled as such, and every tracked or paid-for link carries rel="sponsored". Sponsorship never buys a ranking, a top pick, editorial copy, or an unlabelled link — it buys a credit, visibly marked, and nothing else.
What is not for sale
For the avoidance of any doubt, and so this page can be held against us later:
- Placement in a guide.
- A ranking or a top pick.
- Undisclosed or unmarked links.
- Any space in the Journal or the Library, ever.
These are not house preferences; they are the standing public promise made in how the Press is funded. If a proposal requires bending any of them, the answer is already no.
Get in touch
Proposals to [email protected] — say what the tool is, who it is for, and where your programme lives.
Pitches for link exchanges, “guest posts” or undisclosed paid links get no reply.