Beaufort Books
ABOUT Beaufort Books
About Beaufort. Beaufort is an independent publisher based in New York City with national distribution into book trade channels through Midpoint Trade Books. The company produces a mix of non-fiction and fiction titles, with about 15–20 new titles each year.
Success. Beaufort has published four New York Times bestsellers since 2007: If I Did It by the Goldman Family, Hide!!! by Jeff Foxworthy, The Comeback by Consumer Electronics Association President Gary Shapiro, and One Nation Under Taught by Dr. Vince M. Bertram.
Collaboration. We favor a collaborative process in which Beaufort and the author work together to create a beautiful book and design unique publicity, marketing, and sales plans that makes sense for each individual book.
Speed. Our distributor, Midpoint, sells to bookstore accounts each month instead of once every season. For this reason, we publish a book when it needs to be published, instead of plugging it into a catalog when we have space for it. Our typical turnaround time from finished manuscript to books in stores is 9 months.
What is Co-Publishing? Co-publishing with Beaufort Books means sharing the risk of publishing your book. Beaufort and our authors share the cost of publishing a book and, in return, our authors receive a higher share of royalties than they would under a traditional publishing deal.
Authors are critical to our success. Co-publishing is not just a financial distinction. Beaufort believes that our authors are experts in their subjects and that they understand their potential readers. Therefore, our authors have a voice in the publishing and marketing decisions that go into making and selling a book. Beaufort Books has a team of talented, experienced publishing professionals who are excellent at what they do. When our authors’ expertise in their subject is paired with Beaufort’s expertise in publishing, we are able to produce exceptional books that are competitive with those published by big New York publishers.
The Process. As co-publishing partners, we work with our authors through every stage of the publishing process, from the manuscript to the finished book and beyond. Our books all have national distribution through Midpoint Trade Books, a 16-year-old company with about 300 client publishers. We benefit from their established relationships with wholesalers, retailers, industry organizations and publications, and more. We also commit to helping our books get the marketing and publicity support they need so that readers and potential book buyers will be exposed to them. We also reach out to specialty markets so we can sell books beyond traditional bookselling outlets.
