Morgan James Publishing is an American independent book

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and distributor, specializing in

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, faith and kids categories.

History

The company was founded in 2003 in

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by David L. Hancock. In their early years, Morgan James provided a hybrid of traditional publishing and a subsidy publisher model in which entrepreneurial business nonfiction authors pre-paid fees against the publisher's royalties to be published. Hancock became business partners with ''Guerrilla Marketing'' author

Jay Conrad Levinson Jay Conrad Levinson (February 10, 1933 – October 10, 2013) was an American business writer, known as author of the 1984 book ''Guerrilla marketing''. He was born in Detroit, raised in Chicago, graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulde ...

and together they published a series of non-fiction books. In December 2008, the company was invited by

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to ring the opening bell and to recognize the book ''Do Your Giving While You Are Living'' by

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, which the company promotes. In September 2013, the company launched an

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bundling program. Morgan James Publishing chose BitLit, an online platform as the partner the program. In February 2015, the company signed a partnering agreement with Aerbook, and the Aer.io Retail Network to offer excerpts and sales of its titles using

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. In August 2018, Morgan James Publishing announced a partnership with Publica.

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, the international news magazine of book publishing and bookselling, listed the publishing house as one of the fastest-growing independent publishers of 2014, 2015 and 2018.

Publishing

Morgan James Publishing reports that it receives an average of 5,000

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proposals each year and accepts and publishes an average of 150. A number of the company's books have charted on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list, including '' The AdSense Code'' by

Joel Comm Joel Comm (born May 5, 1964) is an American author and Internet marketer. Comm is the CEO of InfoMedia, a social media consulting company. Comm is the founder of ClassicGames, a family-friendly multiplayer gaming website he sold to Yahoo! in 199 ...

(2006), ''Launch: An Internet Millionaire's Secret Formula To Sell Almost Anything Online, Build A Business You Love, And Live The Life Of Your Dreams'' by Jeff Walker (#1 Best-Seller in Advice, How-to, and Miscellaneous July 20, 2014) ''The Millionaire Messenger: Make a Difference and a Fortune Sharing Your Advice'' published on March 7, 2011 by

Brendon Burchard Brendon Burchard is a bestselling author from the New York Times. His latest book, High Performance Habits, was a Wall Street Journal bestseller and was nominated by Amazon as one of his top three business and leadership books of 2017 uMagazine ...

(#1 Best-Seller in Paperback Advice/Misc, April 3–10, 2011).

Notable authors

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History

Publishing

Notable authors

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