Founding Editor and Publisher Tariq Goddard to Depart Repeater, Zero Books

Tariq Goddard, founding editor and publisher of Repeater Books and Zero Books, has announced he is stepping down from both U.K.-based radical imprints.

Goddard started Zero Books in 2007 as an imprint of John Hunt Publishing, now Collective Ink, and later launched Repeater Books in 2014 for Watkins Media. Both imprints were cofounded with the late Mark Fisher. 

He plans to focus on his own writing "before looking for a new opportunity within publishing," a spokesperson told the Bookseller. 

Both imprints published a number of titles on capitalism, feminism, art, politics, and philosophy.

"Repeater and Zero Books are publishing imprints that have become a culture," said Goddard in a statement. "That culture will endure longer than the individuals that helped bring it about, and although I will be leaving the imprints, it is impossible to leave what they have created."

"The strength and influence of Repeater and Zero Books is felt as much in the publishing ether, and in the creation of our own community and niche, as it is in market share or famous names," he added. "Both imprints followed the simple brief of trying to discover what was happening, and create it if it could not be found."

Repeater is distributed in the U.S. by Penguin Random House.