What Is A Hybrid Publisher?

What is Hybrid Publishing

One of the fastest growing areas within the publishing industry, hybrid publishing combines elements of traditional publishing with self-publishing. As a groundbreaking hybrid publisher, Amplify Publishing Group offers a full range of professional publishing services while allowing authors to retain intellectual and creative control over their work.

To offset the up-front financial investment by the author, hybrid publishers offer a higher royalty rate than traditional publishers. At APG, we pay one of the highest royalty percentages in the business at 85% and provide distribution and marketing services designed to maximize visibility and sales potential.

The APG Difference

With twenty years of experience, APG maintains the highest industry and ethical standards to support authors at every step of the production, marketing, and distribution processes, and produces quality books that are on par with traditional New York houses.

APG has a strong commitment to helping get those books into readers’ hands. Other benefits of APG’s process include speed-to-market (our average timeline is about half that of traditional publishers) and retention of all intellectual property rights and creative control by the author.

Amplify Publishing Group meets the Independent Book Publishers Association’s (IBPA) eleven criteria to be considered a hybrid publisher, including:

Vetting submissions
Ensuring editorial, design, and production quality
Publishing to industry standards
Providing distribution services
Paying authors a higher-than-standard royalty rate, in exchange for the author’s personal financial investment

Case Studies

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What makes a great leader? Mountains of books have been written on the traits, skills, and qualities that provide this answer. In my mind, one easily rises to the top: The Power of Playing Offense.Eric Yuan, Founder and CEO, Zoom Video Communications

We hear it all the time: “I want this book to be a short read. Something that can be consumed on a plane ride.” And a short read is sometimes the right answer. Sometimes. Paul Epstein’s new book The Power of Playing Offense: A Leader’s Playbook for Personal and Team Transformation can also be finished on one plane ride—if a reader were on a flight from New York to Hong Kong. And in Paul’s case, a lengthier book was the right answer.

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Seizing Opportunity with The Opportunity Agenda

A Plan to Grow the Middle Class and Revitalize the Democratic Party

Rather than developing a long-term plan to help middle-class Americans, today’s Democratic politicians too often lean on ‘the public’s revulsion to Trump’ as the center of their electoral strategy. In place of the party’s vague, anti-Trump approach, the authors propose an ‘Opportunity Agenda’ revolving around economic uplift for the middle class. – Kirkus Reviews

Disrupting the Democratic Party to improve its core

New York businessman and civic leader Winston Fisher and former Kansas City mayor Sly James wouldn’t seem like they have much in common. They come from different cities, cultures, and professions. But they do have one thing in common: their desire to save the Democratic Party from itself.

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The Roadmap to Becoming Crisis Ready^®

Organizations that are Crisis Ready^® are more than just resilient. They’re invincible.

Building an invincible brand in an uncertain world

Written by crisis management advisor as well as founder and CEO of the Crisis Ready Institute Melissa Agnes, Crisis Ready: Building an Invincible Brand in an Uncertain World provides organizations such as businesses, police, military, and universities the tools they need to build resilient brands. Being Crisis Ready^® means if an organization is faced with a crisis, they come out of it stronger and even better than before.

What does this mean?

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