A People's Guide to Publishing Workbook
Build Your Book Business from the Ground Up
Will be published approx. on 10. March 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-64841-579-1 (ISBN)
Description
Plan out your publishing empire, from mission to budgets, with this companion to Joe Biel's A People's Guide to Publishing. While you're building your authentic niche, shopping for a distributor, making printing choices, or deciding when to hire, this interactive workbook is distilled from a quarter century of independent publishing expertise, along with ambitions and adventures on the innovative margins of the book business. A great resource for visual thinkers, note-takers, and anyone without a photographic memory, this workbook will help you dial in your vision and keep you accountable to your goals. Because pursuing your meaning and purpose depends on keeping track of the details!
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
172 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64841-579-1 (9781648415791)
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Person
Joe Biel is a self-made life-long-learner and autistic publisher who draws origins, inspiration, and methods from punk rock to sell millions of books. Biel is the founder and CEO of Microcosm Publishing, Publishers Weekly's #1 fastest-growing publisher of 2022 and #3 in 2023/2024, and WorkingLit, the software responsible for Microcosm's aforementioned success--now available for other publishers. Biel has been featured in Time, Esquire, Forbes, Bulletproof Radio, Spectator (Japan), G33K (Korea), as well as NPR and PBS. Biel is the author of A People's Guide to Publishing, Autism Relationships Handbook, Unfuck Your Business, Enduring Legacy of Portland's Black Panthers, and dozens more. Biel is the director of five feature films, including Aftermass: Bicycling in a Post-Critical Mass Portland, $100 & a T-Shirt, and hundreds of short films. Biel lives in Portland, OR.