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Congratulations Rebecca and Christy on your #5 NYT bestseller!

Taming Your Alpha Bitch is now #5 on the New York Times list for paperbacks in Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous. More information here.

This makes BenBella’s third NYT bestseller in the last 18 months, but who’s counting.

Tame Your Alpha Bitch!

Congrats to Christy Whitman and Rebecca Grado for hitting the Amazon movers and shakers list, again!!! The book is now #4 on Amazon!

To see what the excitement is all about, check out their interview on the Today show:

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We Heart Borders

Borders is struggling right now. On top of our belief – along with most of the publishing world, I’m sure – that the industry is better off with a thriving Borders, they’ve been a particular friend of ours over the years. We’ve developed a dozen-odd Borders Exclusive titles for them, and really have enjoyed working with them and have learned a great deal in the process. …

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Jodee Blanco is fighting bullying nationally

The author of BenBella’s Please Stop Laughing at Us is getting a lot of air time. As school bullying dominates the media, Jodee Blanco’s visibility as the nation’s ONLY survivor turned activist working inside America’s schools, continues to escalate. In the last ten days alone she has spoken in gyms and auditoriums in nearly a dozen major markets across the country to a combined audience of thousands; …

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BenBella Cause

BenBella just closed on our second title in the BenBella Cause line. This is a small line of books, each of which is associated with a good cause, to which we donate half our profits. It’s our way of giving back and celebrating our good fortune as a publishing house.

Meals On Wheels’ Made With Love: The Meals On Wheels Family Cookbook will be published by BenBella Books Fall 2011. …

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Is the WSJ missing the point on self-publishing?

Tim Keiningham sent me an interesting article, “Vanity Press Goes Digital.” We’re excitedly and aggressively (but I hope intelligently) pursuing the digitalization of our business, but I do think that the implications for self-publishing are vastly overstated, by the WSJ here, and in general. Self publishing has been going on and successful (for top .001%) for a long time now (i.e. …

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