Agio Publishing House

We are book publishing & marketing experts.

Welcome to Agio Publishing House. Please explore our website and contact us with your questions and ideas.

At Agio Publishing House, we produce GREAT books! Readers love them -- and the author enjoys a unique and supportive experience.

Featured books released in autumn 2007 were Book Marketing DeMystified by Bruce Batchelor and The Onion Files by Major General Val Pattee. Both are doing splendidly, following their marketing plans and delivering monthly royalties to the authors. Recent 2008 releases include Rowland Charles Marshall's Luck Was My Companion: Adventures of an Old Sea Dog, and the first two books in Barry Mathias's Ancient Bloodlines Trilogy. Coming soon are naturalist David Stirling's Birds, Beasts and a Bike Under the Southern Cross, Mary-Jane Bateman and Bruce Fogel's Knowledge of Oneness: Letters of Enlightenment from Beyond the Veil and the first of Martha Symington's Dream, Believe, Achieve series of children's books, entitled Emily.

AUTHORS: You are invited to submit your manuscripts. Agio's founders, Bruce and Marsha Batchelor, having published thousands of books for authors at other companies, have just launched a new publishing company – Agio Publishing House, with its head office in Victoria, BC, Canada.

Bruce is the inventor of the print-on-demand (POD) publishing approach that has enabled over 100,000 authors worldwide to be published. From their experience working with authors from over 100 countries, Bruce and Marsha know there is a need to take publishing to the next stage. With the opening of Agio, they have created a highly innovative, specialized publishing service for discerning authors who wish to have a beautiful book launched with an effective, personalized marketing program. Under the expert guidance of these highly respected industry veterans, you can join the ranks of independent ("indie") authors who are re-defining the book industry – in much the same way that indie filmmakers are bringing new life to the movie business.

Every author works directly with Bruce Batchelor, an acknowledged leader in the publishing world, to research and plan the optimal marketing mix for his or her book. Typically Bruce will then edit the manuscript through the substantive edit, line edit and proofing stages. Cover design and inside page layout are performed by award-winning graphic designer Marsha Batchelor. Bruce then oversees the implementation of the book's multi-faceted marketing campaign.

Marketing often includes such cost-efficient and cutting-edge tactics as simultaneously releasing an audio book edition (distributed as a series of podcast episodes), eBook edition and both soft- and hardcover print editions. Publicity will build from local media coverage to wider audiences, including extensive Internet awareness. Each book and author has a blog to promote and interact with readers and journalists. Other potential marketing mix components are described in Bruce's own new book, Book Marketing DeMystified.

Agio books are competitively priced in bookstores. As author, you will earn a royalty percentage on book sales that is substantially higher than what you would receive from other publishing houses. You retain full copyright to the manuscript and to your subsequent writings – this is of great importance if your plan is to use Agio's production and marketing expertise as a springboard to selling future rights to a large publisher, film producer or other media company.

To be able to fully customize our service and work personally with each author, we generally accept no more than two new authors each month.

Read Bruce's blog about book marketing trends at bookmarketing.agiopublishing.com/.

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