How American Book Publishing

Differs from Publishers

Often Seen in the Search Engines

This question comes up occasionally when an author begins to understand that a successful career as a writer requires a great deal more than good writing skills and talent, as they begin to learn the business requirements to achieve success as a professional author.

We provide a rare opportunity for authors who are talented but have never been published, or who have been published but not yet commercially successful (while the majority of publishing houses refuse to consider any such unsolicited manuscripts). However, we must be extremely selective, publishing only those manuscripts by authors who show writing skill and talent and whose titles show promise, either for making a profit or serving an important public benefit, and limit the number of books published annually to under a hundred books a year.

Companies posing as traditional publishing companies (by paying a token dollar advance as a ploy to charge authors fees later), or publish-on-demand (POD), vanity, subsidy, or self-publishers accept nearly every manuscript submission! Many publish (more like just print, as they do not provide quality content editing and copyediting, design, or distribution services) tens of thousands of books a year!

No publisher could possibly service that many titles well! Random House, Simon and Schuster, Putnam Penguin—giants in the industry all understand this. They limit their production numbers to manageable annual numbers just as American Book Publishing does.

The profuse Internet advertisements of these publishers portray them as traditional publishing houses and confuse writers as to the publishing steps they really perform, as well as which aspects of publishing are important.

They often gain thousands of submissions and fool new and unsuspecting writers, but rarely fool the more sophisticated media. Such gatekeepers to a book’s success as the book reviewers and newspaper, magazine, radio, and television journalists consider many of these other “publishing” companies as print mills and know far too well their names and what they do—or worse, what critical publishing tasks they don’t do. If one of these companies publishes your book, the media will rarely consider you “published” or your book of value for book reviews, interviews, or articles.

Professionals in the media, who can make or break your book’s sales, do not have time to review all the books sent to them, so they rely on the good name of the publisher to first weed out books for the circular file when deciding what books they will review. Therefore, when a new author starts out with a publisher with a reputation as a self-publisher or POD mill, he or she will find insurmountable barriers to successfully reaching new book customers or building a following on a national basis.

American Book Publishing provides the author with the name of a highly respected traditional publishing house (ABP is not only respected in the media for their careful and limited selection of manuscripts, but for their outstanding reputation for having one of the best developmental or content editing and custom design departments in the industry).

Along with other quality services provided only by traditional publishers—such as book production that meets library standards in paper quality and binding processes, wide book distribution through the largest respected book distributors, and policies that allow stores to return books they stocked—American Book Publishing’s reputation and level of author service is a capital asset that an author cannot match or replace by compromising and publishing with one of these other types of companies.