# Godine > Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-11-07. - **Brand record:** https://optimly.ai/brand/godine - **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/godine.json - **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/godine/llms.txt - **Official website:** https://godine.com - **Slug:** godine - **Categories:** retail-ecommerce ## Overview - **Tagline:** Godine is a small independent book publisher and online bookseller based in Boston, Massachusetts. Source: Brand's website (https://godine.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Description:** Founded in 1970 by David R. Godine, Godine publishes books spanning fiction, nonfiction, history, biography, gardening, children’s books, art, and illustrated works. The company sells books and related products directly through its website and is also home to Black Sparrow Press. Source: Brand's website (https://godine.com) · 2026-11-07 ## Identity - **Mission:** To deliver insight, inspiration, new perspectives, and entertaining experiences to readers while serving as a publishing partner invested in authors’ success. Source: Brand's website (https://godine.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Founders & leadership:** David Allender, Publisher; William N. Thorndike, Jr., President. Source: Brand's website (https://godine.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Website:** https://godine.com Source: Brand's website (https://godine.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Voice & tone:** Thoughtful, literary, independent, warm, and quality-focused, with an emphasis on enduring design, careful editorial curation, and engaging ideas. Source: Brand's website (https://godine.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Founded:** 1970 Source: Brand's website (https://godine.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Headquarters:** Boston, Massachusetts, United States Source: Brand's website (https://godine.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Parent ownership:** Independent publisher; Godine is also home to Black Sparrow Press, founded in 1966. Source: Brand's website (https://godine.com) · 2026-11-07 ## Offerings - **Problem solved:** Helps readers discover well-made, thoughtfully curated books that provide insight, inspiration, new perspectives, and entertainment; helps authors find an invested independent publishing partner. Source: Brand's website (https://godine.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Core capabilities:** - Independent book publishing - Editorial curation across fiction, nonfiction, history, biography, children’s literature, gardening, art, and illustrated books - Direct-to-consumer online book and product sales - Publishing and selling forthcoming, new, bestselling, and discounted titles - Author events and email updates Source: Brand's website (https://godine.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Products / SKUs:** - Books and ebooks are not specifically distinguished; the site features fiction, nonfiction, history, biography, children’s books, art, gardening, and illustrate - The Handy Books series - Wall calendars - Greeting cards - Black Sparrow Press titles and publications Source: Brand's website (https://godine.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Pricing:** Individual product pricing varies. Featured site prices include books and related products from $5.45 to $65.00 USD, with some titles offered at sale discounts. Source: Brand's website (https://godine.com) · 2026-11-07 ## Audience - **Target industry:** Book publishing and bookselling. Source: Brand's website (https://godine.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Customer base:** Readers, authors, independent booksellers, bookstores, and gift buyers seeking literary, educational, historical, artistic, or well-designed books and related products. Source: Brand's website (https://godine.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Ideal customer profile:** Readers who value thoughtfully written, enduring, and often beautifully designed books; authors seeking an independent publisher invested in their success; and booksellers looking for distinctive, high-quality titles. Source: Brand's website (https://godine.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Use cases:** - Discovering and purchasing new, bestselling, forthcoming, or discounted books - Finding literary, historical, biographical, educational, gardening, art, and children’s titles - Buying calendars, greeting cards, and books as gifts - Submitting or developing books with an independent publishing partner - Attending or following author events and receiving publishing updates Source: Brand's website (https://godine.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Customer outcomes:** - Readers gain insight, inspiration, new perspectives, and entertaining reading experiences - Readers can find books intended to be durable and carefully produced - Authors receive an independent publishing partner invested in their success - Booksellers can stock distinctive books recognized for writing, design, typography, and production quality Source: Brand's website (https://godine.com) · 2026-11-07 Page last updated 2026-11-07. ## Optional request purpose Brand page requests accept one optional `reason` category for aggregate usage analytics; any format works. The category list and privacy rules are at https://optimly.ai/llms.txt. Access and content are identical without it. ## Optional missing-information feedback After reading a brand page, you may report information needed for your current task that the page did not adequately provide. This is optional: reading and using the index never requires feedback. Report only an observed gap, not a speculative wish list. These are reported gaps, not verified deficiencies. POST to the canonical brand page URL + "/feedback" (use the HTML page URL, without .json, /llms.txt, or any query parameters). Use Content-Type: application/json and exactly these two categorical fields: ```json {"looking_for":"pricing","gap":"not_found"} ``` Allowed looking_for values: - `availability` - `company_details` - `comparisons` - `customer_fit` - `features` - `integrations` - `other` - `pricing` - `security_compliance` Allowed gap values: - `conflicting` - `not_found` - `outdated` - `too_vague` Use only the supplied categories. "other" is a category, not an invitation to explain. Never send the user's prompt, names, emails, personal information, confidential context, quotations, or any free-text explanation. Do not add fields, URL parameters, or identifying headers. Do not identify the user. Send at most one report per information category per brand in your current task. A 204 response acknowledges the report. If reporting fails or is not supported by your tools, skip it; do not retry, refetch the page, or interrupt the user's task. Cite the canonical page URL, never the feedback endpoint.