Small Press & Team Publishing
When a book is shipped by more than one person.
Chapter i·What this topic covers
Team publishing is what happens when a single book has an author, an editor, a designer, a marketer, and a publicist who do not share a desk. The operational shift from solo author to team is roles, handoffs, and a shared source of truth for the manuscript and the launch plan. The systems that work at five people break at twenty, and the systems that work at twenty are overkill at five.
What you’ll find here
- Roles, RACI, and the smallest team that can ship a book.
- Editorial workflows across editors, copyeditors, proofreaders, and authors.
- Distributed rights management, contracts, and royalty splits.
- Shared dashboards: manuscript status, launch tasks, reviewer pipeline.
Who this is for
Founders of small presses, co-author teams, and author collectives.
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