Ronin Publishing
| Predecessor | And/Or Press |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1983 |
| Founder | Sebastian Orfali and Beverly Potter |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Berkeley, California |
| Publication types | Books |
| Nonfiction topics | Personal development, Visionary alternatives, Expanded consciousness |
| Imprints |
Leary Library Lilly Library |
| Official website | http://www.roninpub.com |
Ronin Publishing, Inc. is a small press in Berkeley, California, founded in 1983 and incorporated in 1985, which publishes books as tools for personal development, visionary alternatives, and expanded consciousness. The company's tagline is "Life Skills with Attitude!" In a 1996 Publishers Weekley profile, the company describes itself as a "strong player in the hemp and psychedelia market" that has little competition from major publishers.
Ronin's catalog includes the Leary Library, The Lilly Library, The Fringe Series, The Entheo-Spirituality Series, and various books on psychedelia.
The company has been subpoened by the Drug Enforcement Administration to provide names and addresses for people having purchased their books on marijuana horticulture. A number of their books are reprints of out-of-print works from the 1960s and 1970s — including a number of titles published by Ronin's predecessor, And/Or Press — on the psychedelic experience and related subjects.
In 2006, Ronin republished the 1963 Discordian religious text Principia Discordia with altered text and a new name, so Ronin could copyright the work. This action offended many fans of the original work, whose authors, Greg Hill (Malaclypse the Younger) and Kerry Thornley, had died several years previously.
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