Announcement

Esteemed Customers & Creators,

Edition One Books will be closing its California production facility, where all of our ‘short run’ digitally printed books are made. We will continue to accept orders until June 15th, 2025, with the intention of completing those orders by the end of August, if not sooner. We will require quick proof approval for these orders to ensure we have enough time to complete them.

Our commercial division, which produces larger orders of 500 copies or more, will continue to operate. These larger orders require a custom quote, and potential customers are invited to fill out our custom order request form linked here.

There are a few reasons for the closure of our digital print facility. Firstly, our lease is up at the end of this year. For many years, it has been clear that the operating costs here in the San Francisco Bay Area are too high for a print and bindery company to run profitably. Cost increases have outpaced our ability to increase our own prices in any reasonable way.

Additionally, the Trump tariff tantrums have had an immediate and devastating effect on both material costs as well as that portion of our business which involves the importation of books from our overseas production plants. The losses incurred over the last few months are simply not sustainable, and the uncertainty of what will come next is debilitating. Of course, the great irony here is that it is our American employees who are now looking for new work.

– Ben Zlotkin