About APE Brands
APE Brands is a small independent Canadian publishing and brand company based in Ottawa.
We created APE to give our books and original projects a permanent home rather than treating each one as a separate venture. Under one company, we can develop ideas, publish books, build specialised brands and keep supporting the work after publication.
Our catalogue ranges across fiction, travel and practical subjects. Some projects grow into books. Others develop into brands, products or larger bodies of work. APE provides the common structure behind them.
We are deliberately independent. That gives us the freedom to choose what we create, how we develop it and when something is ready to publish.
How We Work
Create our own work.
APE develops books, brands and projects originating within our own publishing family. We do not operate as a publishing service or manage outside creative work.
Build things properly.
Books move through editorial development, design, production and prepress before publication. The same principle applies to the brands and products we develop.
Keep control of the catalogue.
We manage our publishing files, metadata, editions, distribution and supporting assets so books can be corrected, expanded and kept available over time.
Build for the long term.
Not every project needs to become a large business. It does need a reason to exist. We favour work that can remain useful, interesting or valuable long after its initial release.
Independent by Design
APE Brands is intentionally small. Core creative direction and publishing decisions remain close to the work, with professional tools, production resources and specialist services used where they make sense.
This structure lets us develop very different projects without turning APE into a large agency, publishing service or traditional corporate publisher.
APE Brands does not accept unsolicited manuscripts or outside publishing projects.
