Our demise has been greatly exaggerated.

Bad news travels fast, good news not so fast. First, let’s cut to the chase: Laissez Faire Books is NOT closing. In November LFB owner Kathleen Nelson, then owner of Laissez Faire, announced she was closing the business. Within minutes of her announcement she was contacted by the International Society for Individual Liberty which began negotiations to take over LFB and keep it alive. Without ISIL’s intervention then Laissez Faire Books would be closed.

Negotiations took a couple of weeks. During that interim period Kathleen liquidated a lot of inventory. Under ISIL’s ownership the new LFB is working to replace that inventory as quickly as possible. In addition the new LFB will include more DVDs and an expanded range of books. Inventory may be reduced at the start but it is growing rapidly.

In the next week, or two, we expect 40+ cases of books to be shipped here. According to our purchase orders we have 165 titles on the way to us at this time. And this week we will be ordering another dozen or more titles. In addition we have an inventory of dozens of videos which LFB has not previously offered which will be added to the selection.

And if that isn’t enough our publishing arm, Cobden Press, has secured funding to print several titles, some of which have never been offered by anyone before.

So anything you heard about our demise has been grossly exaggerated. We are alive, well and growing. To find out about all our new titles please join the e-mail list on the upper right of this page.