Million Memory Project (MMP) is a publishing company creating a new approach to publishing and distributing books and digital archives.

We believe that books and archives thrive when created collectively. Our publishing process is a community-driven effort, where storytelling, memory preservation, and book creation become shared experiences. By engaging communities in every step—from composition to publication—we ensure that each book is a true reflection of the voices, histories, and cultures that shape it. In our book publishing process we create supplemental full-length oral histories, as well as image, transcript and document archives. We are working with institutions of different types to make these digital archives available to the public now and into the future.

We want to make it easier for books to tell stories that would otherwise not be told and leverage the creation process as a community experience. We are currently working on projects focused on local community memories, musical legacy and professional and industry oral histories.

Our first community publishing pilot project launched in early 2025 with the Appalachian Memory Project.