Become a book Patron or Sponsor

Reward your customers, members, and prospective clients – as well as students and educators throughout the world – with free print, audio, and e-books …and gain recognition and appreciation in the process!

Patroned™ print and digital books provide a valuable service to your important constituents in the world of business. They make need-to-know know-how availableto business owners, managers, entrepreneurs, and aspiring business leaders. Since they feature your organization's branding, they also provide you with visibility in the marketplace and help build enduring constituent loyalties. Each book can be a unique complement of your customer/member relationship programs.

To facilitate the free distribution of these publications, production and distribution costs are defrayed by revenues from sponsors and underwriters who serve as Patrons. In return, they get prominent recognition through four discreet cover and content “messages” that appear in each publication. Patrons can also include a direct link to their web sites.

Digital books are becoming especially popular. Readers and listeners who can access them through e-book readers, digital audio listening devices, mobile platforms and pads, and traditional PCs. They are available in formats that can be accessed on Kindle, Android, Nook, Kobo, Pocketbook, Sony, and most other reading devices as well as on PCs, iPads, PDF readers, PDAs, and Smartphones.

Patroned digital books can be e-mailed or downloaded directly via the Internet in PDF, ePub, Mobipocket, and MP3 audio formats. They are made available, at no cost to readers, through traditional trade book channels and through the marketing and customer networks of Patrons. All digital books are also distributed free of charge to students, libraries, armed services personnel, and veterans.

Most titles are in digest form – BrassTacks BriefBooks^TM-- and focus on a single contemporary topic. Some are in the form of anthologies containing contributed content from academicians, authors, consultants, coaches, bloggers, and professional experts. The publisher also recruits students as authors and contributors. Their works provides them with exposure in the job market and entitles them to special rewards for excellence. Books range in length from 25 to 250 pages.

Collaborating content providers earn valuable exposure through prominently displayed attributions, including e-mail links and URLs, which furnish them with opportunities to make connections in the business community. For both established and “encore” authors it is a powerful alternative to self-publishing.

In addition, the publisher provides a special participation program for students and their instructors. Click here to find out more.

The terse PBS-like “messages” from patrons that are included in these publications do not impinge upon the integrity of the principal content. Indeed, the patronage model was the prevailing practice in the world prior to the nineteenth century -- especially during the Renaissance -- and as responsible for bringing the talents of artists like Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, daVinici, Mozart, Beethoven and many others to new and larger audiences.

BE A HOST OR A PATRON

Patrons

A Patron is an individual corporation, professional practice, affinity group, trade association, or non-profit organization that financially facilitates the creation and free distribution of free print or digital books among its customers, clients, members, or prospects.

In exchange for underwriting the creation and dissemination of books, a Patron is publicly recognized by virtue of a very short, unobtrusive “institutional message” embedded in the print or digital material is has subsidized. It can appear as a logo, print tag, or audio/video message that identifies the Patron and its contact information (e.g. URP, e-mail address, telephone number, Facebook page, social media connection, etc. Because of a book’s long life and potentially global distribution, product or service advertising messages are impractical.

Patrons can also disseminate their branded publications to clients, members, or prospects through their proprietary distribution networks or retail outlets.

Click here to see a Patron branded cover

Patron’s can also opt to sell these print and digital publications. Each patron establishes the merchandising methodology it wishes to employ. [An example would be the sale of e-books or audio books through a retail Patrion's chain of stores. The Patiron's customers would select an attractive display card with the books description and UPC code and pay for the book at check out. A unique user key would allow the purchaser to download the book to a wide range of digital platforms at his or her convenience. The retailer enjoys high margin sales that entail a minimum of shelf space and no inventory. Given the low cost associated with such distribution, some retailers opt to provide the books as discounted or totally free “specials.” In these instances, a “customer code” provides download access to the Patron’s website or a Patroin-branded web page on the publisher’s internet portal.]

Hosts

A Host is an entity (professional association, non-profit organization, alumni group, economic development agency, publication, media outlet, or educational institution) that promotes and facilitates access to books among its constituents. eMail, Internet, and snail mail distribution are typically employed. Hosts often encourage their members, clients or students to "cook up" content for inclusion in these books. A Host can also post a re-direct link on its principal web site through which digital book downloads can be ordered via a generic “order” page. Here, too, a “customer code” can make these books available for free or at a discounted price.

THE BENEFITS OF BEING A HOST OR PATRON

You'll get tremendous client and public appreciation for providing this valuable service. Since a direct link to your principal web site is always included, these offerings will draw repeat visitors to your primary website.
You can employ “free books” as a part of your on-going customer or member marketing programs. It's a great aid to client/member prospecting, development, service, and retention efforts. Your prime constituents can be "touched" routinely in a highly-personalized, meaningful manner that portrays your organization as a "partner" as well as a "provider."
You can feature your role in offering this benefit in your regular advertising, promotional materials, web site, intranet, or internal publications. It will establish you as a principal source of valuable business assistance in your designated market or membership arena.
You can regularly e-mail program alerts concerning newly released books using your own facilities or with our simple e-mail distribution service and RSS (really simple syndication) service.
You can provide co-attribution as an author to one or more individuals in your organization, thus giving added recognition to the unique capacities of the folks who make up you enterprise.
Hosts and Patrons enjoy wide recognition and appreciation for providing all-important support to the business community, its leaders, and the students and educators who strive to contribute to its enhancement.
You can help students hone their research and writing skills and acquire important contacts in the world of business. Find out more about this by clicking here.

Brass Tacks Publishing Inc., of Naples Florida, is a division of Electromedia Technologies Corporation, which has provided the business community with information, insights, and inspiration in print and electronic formats since 1963.

To download a sample e-book at no charge, go to www.BrainFoodToGo.com/ebooks
To learn more about Patroned Publications, go to http://www.brainfoodtogo.com/Home/Services/patronedpublishing
For background information on Brass Tacks Publishing Inc. and to see publications that are currently available go to www.BrainFoodToGo.com/Publications

Let us know of your interest in being a Host or Patron by filling out the response box at the bottom of this page. You can call us at 239-398-7000 or e-mail us at info@BrainFoodToGo.com

Shown below is a sample Patron branded cover. Four additional one-third page Patron "messages" are displayed within the book, and additional branding is provided on the back cover