The Butman Company is Expanding

Anna Weiss, a graduate of Cornell University, recently joined The Butman Company, Inc. as a project manager and writer. Anna previously lived in Haifa, Israel, where she studied at The University of Haifa, fine-tuned English language publications at the Hecht Museum, and worked as a freelance editor.

This marks yet another milestone for The Butman Company, as the company continues to grow and expand its capabilities. Welcome, Anna.

THE EMOTIONAL CALENDAR Purchased by Times Books

Author and psychiatrist Dr. John Sharp, in collaboration with The Butman Company and Todd Shuster of Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency, has successfully sold the North American rights for THE EMOTIONAL CALENDAR to Robin Dennis at Times Books, an imprint of Henry Holt & Company. After a year of extensive research led by Dr. Sharp and Janine Liberty, of The Butman Company, THE EMOTIONAL CALENDAR will explore the effects of weather, seasonal conditions, and cultural and personal seasonalities on emotional health and behavior.

This constitutes a major sale for The Butman Company and, building on previous success in the category of business management, marks the beginning of the company’s expansion into new subject areas. Publication is slated for fall 2010.

GLOBALITY an Economist Book of the Year

The Economist has placed GLOBALITY: COMPETING WITH EVERYONE FROM EVERYWHERE FOR EVERYTHING on its prestigious Pick of the Pile list for 2008. As one of only eight economics and business books chosen, GLOBALITY continues to be recognized for its unique insights and thought provoking concepts both in the United States and abroad; it has already appeared on the bestseller lists of both The Washington Post and The Straits Times, the English-speaking daily newspaper in Singapore. For the full list visit http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12719711

INSIDE THE VENTURE To Be Published by Portfolio

Jeffrey Bussgang, general partner of Flybridge Capital Partners, in collaboration with The Butman Company and Todd Shuster of ZSH Literary, has successfully placed a new work of non-fiction with Portfolio, the business imprint of The Penguin Group. INSIDE THE VENTURE will draw on Mr. Bussgang’s extensive experience as one of the few who have made successful careers as both an entrepreneur and a venture capitalist. The book will explore the most intriguing aspects of creating and managing a start-up business: the pitch, the deal flow, picking partners, working with the board, and cashing out. Publication is set for spring 2010.

GLOBALITY a CIO Insight Top 10 Book of 2008

CIO Insight, a business journal providing cutting-edge research and new perspectives for leading Chief Information Officers, recently listed GLOBALITY: COMPETING WITH EVERYONE FROM EVERYWHERE FOR EVERYTHING as one of its Top 10 Business-Tech Books of 2008. CIO Insight commends GLOBALITY, citing the book’s focus on “the latest shift in globalization, where former third-world nations are spawning global competitors.” The full list can be found at http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Books/Top-10-BusinessTech-Books-of-2008/

The Butman Company Publishing Guide

Through twenty-odd years of helping clients to develop ideas, write book proposals and books, and navigate the publishing process, The Butman Company has gained an intimate understanding of the ins and outs of the publishing world. We often work with first-time authors who have limited knowledge of traditional publishing and even less of alternative options like self-publishing and of the ancillary materials and other steps that contribute to a book’s success — marketing, foreign editions, and websites. Now The Butman Company is offering a publishing guide, a detailed and thorough primer that walks you through the stages of a project’s development, from researching and structuring the manuscript, to dealing with agents and publishers, to marketing the book and beyond. Additionally, John Butman is available to do seminars based on this guide. He will explain the publishing process, especially for non-fiction and particularly business books, and the progression by which an idea becomes a book and then a platform.

Critics Continue to Praise Globality

In an extensive discussion of Globality in The New York Times, William J. Holstein praises the book for its "keen insights," and adds that readers can use those insights to prevail in the changing economic landscape. Read the New York Times review.

The McClatchy-Tribune has widely syndicated Cecil Johnson’s review, where he says, "Globality is not just a view-with-alarm book. In telling the story of the emerging challenger companies, the authors' primary focus is upon showing how the challengers are achieving their successes, and what incumbents must do to avoid being swamped by the tsunami. This book is a must-read for leaders of companies in the developed world who want to get into the globality act and stay in it." Read Cecil Johnson’s review at ">http://www.azstarnet.com/business/247941

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Globality: The Presentation Edition

Working in partnership with The Boston Consulting Group and NY-based book packager Smallwood & Stewart, The Butman Company produced a limited-run, “presentation edition” of Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything. The clothbound volumes come in a cloth slipcase, with embossed titles, heavyweight paper stock, and a silk ribbon bookmark. The limited edition of 1,200 copies, each one hand-numbered, was produced in China.

Trading Up in Paperback

Trading Up, the BusinessWeek bestseller and Berry-AMA Book Prize winner, is now available for the first time in paperback. The new edition features a revised and updated introduction by the authors.

Globality a Washington Post Bestseller

Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything debuted at number one on the coveted bestseller list for hardcover nonfiction. For a week the book displaced such long-term list-toppers as The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch and Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman.