Bess Press is an American

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, based in

Hawaii Hawaii ( ; ) is an island U.S. state, state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland. One of the two Non-contiguous United States, non-contiguous U.S. states (along with Alaska), it is the only sta ...

, that issues various books on Hawaiian and

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history and culture. It was founded in 1979 by Benjamin "Buddy" Bess, who came to Hawaii in 1976 from

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. Bess bought the rights to two out-of-print textbooks on Hawaiian language, '' Hawaii: The Aloha State'' and '' Hawaii: Our Island State'' that local schools asked about when he was a sales representative for mainland publishers. He reprinted both volumes for $15,000, and pre-sold the copies, thus making a profit.

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