Million Memory Project
We publish books, and we help communities write their own.
We publish books by authors and artists. We also help communities and cultural organizations gather memories, research their history, make a book, and preserve the archive behind it.
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The books
Stories already being told.
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Available Now Sound Archive BooksChildren's Book
Abigail and the Journey of a Pack Horse Librarian
$40.00 Buy at Sound Archive Books -
Available Now Million Memory ProjectCommunity Storytelling
Through Our Eyes: A Community’s Photographic Memory of Hurricane Helene
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Available Now Appalachian Memory ProjectCommunity Storytelling
Madison County, NC – Vol 01: Spring Creek
$50.00 Add to cart
Our imprints
Three imprints for three kinds of story.
Sound Archive Books
Books for artists, labels, venues, and music communities.
Appalachian Memory Project
Books about places in Appalachia, drawn from oral history.
Why books
A book gives memory a place to live.
Books turn scattered material into something people can hold, share, revisit, and pass on.
A book can cover one artist’s career, one community’s experience, or the history of one place.
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Story → Research → Book → Archive
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Preservation beyond the page
The book is the visible outcome. The archive is the lasting one.
Every project has an archive: the interviews, photographs, documents, captions, permissions, and source records, organized so future readers, families, and researchers can use them.
Built to last
We build our own software and partner with companies like TheirStory to organize large collections. People still decide what goes in the book.
Start a project
Have a story that belongs in a book?
We work with artists, community groups, and cultural institutions to make books with lasting impact, from gathering the first memories to printing the book and preserving the archive.