Stripe Press

Stripe Press is owned by Stripe, the financial infrastructure company, acting as their in-house publishing arm. It’s a strategic content initiative – a publishing venture by the same company that provides online payment processing services.

That said, they produce a number of interesting titles and h/t to @bradbarrish for putting Stewart Brand’s Maintenance of Everything, Part One on to my timeline. I realise that I have ‘Get Together’ already and that it’s horrifyingly five years old which consigns itself to historical account versus practical guide.

As an aside, I rather like Stripe Press’s website design as well, it’s rare to encounter a site that doesn’t feel like the product of a commoditised template library. I imagine the design intent was slightly skeuomorphic – to capture the feel of lifting the book off a shelf and opening it. The holy grail for physical product retail - how do you approximate the tactile experience to drive conversion? The lazy and environmentally harmful answer always seems to be ‘free returns’.