Not starting a micropress

I'm not opening a print shop, I'm not buying a secondhand bookshop, and I'm certainly not starting a micropress. But I have been reading a lot about them and collecting a bunch of links. This is not a new compulsion. Every so often I think about this. How much fun it would be to proofread and format books all day. Or, after the day, because this is more a hobby or side project. Definitely less fun is that you must have to do sales. Ugh. Marketing. Vile. Publishing is notoriously hard to get into, to work in, never mind as an author. At least when I was at uni it rested on your ability to do several years of unpaid internships in London and an uncle or at least family friend high up in a publishing house. So without riches of both wealth and cultural capital, that's a no. So I understand why presses need to exist outside of that, both for people who believe in books and the people who want to write them. (Overlap: significant.) At least fifty per cent of why I won't be starting a…