Toronto Star profiles Stan Bevington

On Sunday, September 6, the Toronto Star profiled Coach House founder and 'head coach' Stan Bevington, giving special attention to Coach House Press's recent purchase of the building.

In the publishing realm, such an attitude would seem like nothing short of an entrepreneurial death wish (for the record, Bök's book, Eunoia, became a runaway hit, becoming a Top 10 seller in the UK early this year). But more than 40 years on, Coach House is thriving much as it always has: Rejecting convention and doing things Bevington's way.

Consider: Coach House deals in tiny print runs, from 200 to 2,000, in a publishing climate where conventional wisdom suggests volume is central to survival. It prints all of its books on two ancient Heidelberg presses on the ground floor of its crammed-full print shop-cum-offices in an industry where printing is fully automated, and laser-guided mass production is the norm.

Read the entire article at www.thestar.com.