About

Mission

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

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

About

Originally founded in 1956, Troubador Press was a pioneer of the "Golden Age" of independent publishing. Troubador Press started the “adult” color book long before the modern craze, they were also at one point the largest publisher of beat poetry in the United States. Today, we have evolved into a specialized micro-press and preservation digital 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 do not use AI upscaling.

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 serves as a strategic partner for estates and institutions, offering specialized record rescue for collections that are too fragile for industrial scanning warehouses.

Digital Preservation Services

Our secondary focus is on providing FADGI-compliant digitization for fragile manuscripts, rare books, and historical records. We use a BookTEK 5 V2 professional overhead book scanner. This same scanner is used as archives in some of the most well known museums, libraries and archival institutions around the world.

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.