| About Bookstores: | |
"How much of a help is a bookstore anyway these days?
There are roughly fifteen thousand such stores from sea to shining sea, one bookstore
for every 20,000 Americans. But only 6,000 of them have visited a bookstore in
the past five years, and 14,000 have not. Only 30 percent of all people go to
a bookstore now and then; 70 percent of all Americans can not remember the last
time they did. And of the ones who do enter a Barnes & Noble, a Borders, or
a Brentano's, 60 percent come in knowing exactly what they want. They walk in,
find the book they are coming for, pay, and leave. Only 40 percent of all bookstore
visitors, a meager 2400 per average bookstore, over a period of five or so years,
are potential impulse buyers [...] And of all bookstores, the big chain bookstores
account for only 25 percent of all book sales. Seventy-five percent of all books
are sold elsewhere." | 353
pages, ISBN 1-4137-9096-8, retail price: $24.95 Order
Now for only $9.95
 |
| About Authors: | "Who
were those authors, and who are they in general? Years after we signed up our
first three hundred, we have a pretty sharp picture of them; we know what they
want, think, hope, believe, fear. Though we had roughly thirteen thousand authors
under contract at the moment of this writing, we had over the years been communicating
with more than forty thousand others who wanted to come onboard, and we had reasons
to believe that this number would exceed a hundred thousand by the end of 2006.
At PublishAmerica we are writers experts. Not the celebrity, 50-city book tour,
all-glamor writers, but the regular folks-your next-door neighbor, someone's brother,
sister, niece, cousin, daughter, son, grandparent, mom, dad. In other words, America."
| PublishAmerica: The Inside Story
of an Underdog With a Bite Read the story of an underdog
publishing company that set out to introduce the entire book publishing business
to the twenty-first century. Nothing more, nothing less. -
America buys 4.5 million books every day, 1.6 billion books per year.
-
America counts only 5 percent of the world population, yet Americans purchase
35 percent of all books that are sold worldwide.
- The
5 leading publishers sell 80 percent of all books.
- The
majority of Americans never see the inside of a bookstore; 75 percent of all books
are bought elsewhere.
- Until recently, less than 1 percent
of all authors who had written a book were allowed free access to the masses of
readers.
PublishAmerica leveled the playing
field for book writers almost overnight. It has successfully challenged Mainstream
publishing by opening the gates to Main Street authors-thousands upon thousands
of them. And the publishing elite reacts predictably. - The
book offers a unique behind-the-scenes look at PublishAmerica.
- It
shares numerous anecdotes about, and quotes from, many PublishAmerica authors.
- It
is illustrated with photos of our office and staff.
-
It answers everything you always wanted to know about book publishing, and about
its real heroes: PublishAmerica's authors.
- It explains
why PublishAmerica's success was inevitable and unstoppable.
- It
describes how the book publishing business will never be the same.
Written
by PublishAmerica CEO Willem Meiners, with
an introduction by company president Larry Clopper,
How to Upset a Goliath Book Biz tells the story
of the most captivating pioneers in today's traditional publishing industry, and
their victorious legions of authors: The inside story
of PublishAmerica.
| About Book Buyers: | | "Book
front covers get [a shopper's] attention for eight seconds. That's not much, though
it's approximately forty times more than the amount of time it takes a car driver
to decide to make a panic stop, and four times as long as a helicopter pilot has
to react to an engine failure. Eight seconds-two opposing basketball teams can
easily score a three-pointer each within that time frame, and at the beginning
of a baseball game the national anthem singer will get as far as "O say,
can you see by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed..." That's
it, that's all the time a front cover has to communicate something positive. Within
that time, the reader has to be willing to pick up the book, adjust her glasses
if she has any, look at the title, look at the cover image, and get the message." |
| About
Change: | | "History has always
known elites, and it has always dealt with them in only one way: they disappeared,
and always under the pressure of irresistable change. Historically, all elites
have been replaced by majority rule, and where this has not happened yet, it will
over time, inevitably. As soon as an excluded majority senses that empowerment
is within reach, they will grab it. Authors who have always been refused and denied
the opportunity to see their book in print unless they paid for it now have an
equal opportunity to be in the exact same league as the elite, and they will,
by their sheer number, bring an end to the elite's existence." |
| | | About
Motivation: | | "I was born
just blocks from where Anne Frank hid, where she was betrayed and arrested, and
from where she was deported to die in a Nazi death camp. She was not allowed to
breathe, to speak, to write. When you read her diary and you see her describe
the houses and the streets that were your own childhood's setting, when you learn
from your parents that this was in fact the real girl next door, believe me, it
gets your attention. It makes you want to fight for equal rights for everyone." |
|
|
How
to Upset a Goliath Book Biz