What we do



We are in our broadest sense a marketing services provider working exclusively within the booktrade and specialising in e-marketing. We can manage anything from writing promotional copy to running entire campaigns. We have a wealth of experience in new media and e-solutions having worked with the biggest names in media to produce websites and e-marketing campaigns that have sold countless thousands of books. For details of specific services available to authors, booksellers or publishers please see our media pack.

If you need your website improved, your e-mails designed or a promotional campaign managed, you should contact us and see what we have to say. Remember we deal exclusively with the booktrade because we’re part of the booktrade and no one understands books like we do.

The key reason people use pre-pub is our level of involvement within online bookselling. Other marketing prviders may offer advertising or printed catalogues but you can never be sure what is actually reaching your target market. Many publishers advertise with wholesalers, believing that they are best positioned to promote to booksellers, but are unable to tell what effect their advert has had. It may have been included in a catalogue with a print run of several thousands but how many are still sat in the wholesaler's warehouse gathering dust?

Where pre-pub is different is that we don't just sell the odd banner ad we go out and find the people that are interested in your titles and we talk directly to them. We get involved in online forums like MySpace and make sure people are discussing your work. We can manage pay-per-click campaigns to strict and limited budgets or improve websites to get better search results. There are no set rules as each title is different so why contact us and find out what we can do for you.

Our key publication is pre-pub today, an e-newsletter which is delivered freely to publishers, booksellers and authors to debate current issues. We report on books rather than business and focus on passion rather than promotions. Essentially our philosophy is that business is good but books are better. It could be the perfect medium for promoting your titles to the rest of the booktrade.

Read more in our media pack


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"There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world."
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