Stakeholder Press Business Model

29 July 2021 

Stakeholder Health is a nonprofit that among other things publishes books as part of its mission (operating under the 501(c)3 FaithHealth Innovations)

• The book publishing program is called Stakeholder Press
• The print-on-demand or e-books are published at no cost to Stakeholder Press
  • (unless it’s a Stakeholder Health project)
• An editorial committee will accept or reject projects or manuscripts
• The owner of the project is responsible for all costs, and pays them as incurred
• Stakeholder Press will periodically send author book sales funds due, if applicable
• Stakeholder may choose to solicit authors for specific projects

 

What Stakeholder Press offers to an author

• Marketing and distribution through Stakeholder network
• A place for work to be seen by public, including a target market
• Visibility for their work to potential gigs
• A “reputable” publisher
• Hand holding through the publishing process
  • Connecting to editors, designers, etc. if needed
  • Author is directly responsible for any hired work
• The author is responsible for providing clean, edited copy, that is laid out for print on demand (unless the publishing group negotiates something different)
  • Stakeholder will help manage the printing processes as negotiated for
    • Print on demand from IngramSpark or Amazon
    • E-books
  • SP gets at least 50 percent of book sale profits
  • Stakeholder Press (through FaithHealth Innovations) coordinates finances, costs, royalties

 

Publishing Values (to be developed)