About

Mission

Troubador Press is dedicated to preserving the past while sharing it with the future.

Revived in 2025 and located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina near Asheville, Troubador Press is an archival micro-press with a secondary focus on archival preservation services.

Our History

Originally founded in 1959, Troubador Press was a pioneer of the “Golden Age” of independent publishing. Troubador Press started the “adult” coloring book long before the modern craze and was at one point a notable publisher of Beat poetry. Today, we have evolved into a specialized micro-press and digital preservation services company. While we honor the legacy of founders Malcolm Whyte and Brayton (Brady) Harris, our modern focus is the preservation of the catalog they built.

Troubador Press is an SBA-certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB).

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What Troubador Press Offers

Archival Publishing

We don’t just reprint; we restore. Using our high-fidelity digital masters, we produce remastered editions of classic works, bringing lost creative artifacts back into the hands of researchers, artists, and collectors worldwide.

We prioritize true-to-source fidelity over artificial enhancement. We strictly reject AI upscaling, as algorithms often smooth over original textures and “hallucinate” details that weren’t there. Instead, our process relies on high-resolution CCD raw scans followed by manual restoration to remove age-related damage like stains or foxing.

Legacy Management

Troubador Press partners with institutions and the estates of artists, authors, and publishers to rescue and preserve creative archives too fragile for industrial scanning services.

Digital Preservation

Alongside publishing, Troubador Press provides preservation-grade digitization from its studio near Asheville, NC. This work is reserved for small museums, libraries, archives, historical societies, and other institutions that hold rare, fragile, or culturally significant collections but lack the staff or funding to digitize them.

Scans are FADGI-compliant and captured on a Bookeye 5 V2 overhead planetary scanner with an adjustable V-cradle, so brittle paper and fragile bindings are never put under pressure. Every file is a true-to-source capture with no AI upscaling or algorithmic “enhancement.”

We take on a small number of projects as time allows, and we’re open to working with any budget, including at no cost when a collection is at risk. Institutions are welcome to reach out about a potential partnership. We’re not able to accept personal or family collections or high-volume document conversion.

Join the Journey

Troubador Press is more than a publisher; it is a preservation project dedicated to keeping a vital part of creative history alive. Whether revisiting beloved classics or exploring archival releases for the first time, readers are invited to take part in continuing the legacy.