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A book as a life’s work

I don’t think we state this as clearly as we should in our submissions pages, but we particularly like books that represent an author’s cause/life’s work/mission. These books tend to…

Marketing Myth: Every Author Should Blog

If you are an author, you’ve probably heard this. And there’s no question a successful blog is a great help to an author. But most blogs – well over 90%…

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…

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 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…

The Life of an Editor, 1/25/11

It was a long Saturday in the classroom for the cohort of executive MBA students, with four hours of instruction in the morning, followed by lunch and then four more…

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…

Are EBook Royalties Too Low?

The standard ebook royalty, at least from the big publishers, is 25% of net receipts. Is this the fair royalty level? Publishers aside, everyone seems to agree that 25% of…

BenBella Cause

Almost two years ago I announced the formation of BenBella Cause, a small line of books associated with various charities. For books in the BenBella Cause line, we donate half…