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Meet Vy!

Vy Tran is the Editorial Assistant at BenBella Books. She oversees copyright permissions for non-photo content and assists with developing content, including big-picture and detailed editing and copyediting, and maintaining…

Meet Kathy!

Kathy Kosinski is one of the new Marketing Interns at BenBella Books. She recently moved to Dallas from Detroit, Michigan and is enjoying Texas immensely. She graduated from the University…

Jennifer Groover Joins the BenBella Team!

I’m delighted to announce our acquisition Jennifer Groover’s upcoming book of inspiration and practical guidance for entrepreneurs, What If And Why Not? The Fear-Proof Way to Start the Business of…

Five Slightly Contrarian Book Marketing Ideas

So much excellent material is available on book marketing, and so, rather than rehashing that, I’d like to throw out a few ideas that I think are important but I…

Why We Publish

I started BenBella because I wanted to change my life. I wanted to move from the fast-paced but intangible role of running consulting firms to the slower but more concrete…

Why We Publish (addendum)

I referred in my last post to the many people who have already been helped by The Cure for Alcoholism. An interview with one of them is available here….

E-book Pricing and Denying Reality

I found the NYT article on e-book pricing to be somewhat disheartening, when it comes to the ability of the big publishers to adapt to even relatively minor changes in…

Bush: The Sequel

Perseus, our distributor, unveiled a clever stunt at BEA. They gathered submissions for Book: The Sequel, a collection of humorous first lines from imaginary sequels at BEA, and, in 48…

Jazzing up the Logo

Since the publishing world is changing so fast, we thought we’d jazz up our logo for the web 2.0 age. Here is our new logo:   Here is our old…

Digital Piracy and other Digital Thoughts

Once again, Kassia Krozser provides great insight, this time with her discussion of digital piracy. She points out that publishers are being pulled down the same road, kicking and screaming,…