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Investors, senior hires and boards look you up before they meet you. Today they find a podcast clip and a few posts. A book gives them the whole argument, in your voice, under your name.
Tell us the company and the room the book has to win. Within one business day you get the path that fits and a written price.
The short answer
Columbia Publication gives CEOs and founders two routes. Gravitas Press, the executive imprint, runs from $25,000 with your manuscript to $45,000 written with you from 15 to 18 hours of interviews. With a finished draft, the Authority System is $4,999, and Authority Plus starts at $7,500 with an audiobook and 15 printed copies. Counsel can review before release, and you own 100% of rights and royalties.
Prices checked October 26, 2026 · Reviewed by Gia Kahn, Lead Editor · Next review November 2026 · How we check
Is this you?
A clip is gone in a week. A book is still on the shelf in five years.
Most founders put their thinking out in pieces: a podcast here, a thread there, a quote in someone else’s article. Each piece is accurate. None shows how the parts fit, so the candidate or investor across the table still asks you to start from the top.
A book sets out your operating philosophy or industry thesis in one place, start to finish. You talk, a senior writer drafts, your counsel reads anything sensitive, and it is published under your name.
Start here
Decide one thing first: do you have a draft, or do you want us to write it with you?
| Program | Price | Choose it if |
|---|---|---|
| Authority System | $4,999 | You have the manuscript and want it copyedited, designed, published and launched with an author website and press release |
| Authority Plus | From $7,500 | You have the manuscript and want the full launch: three levels of editing, an audiobook, 15 printed copies and the 3-Day Bestseller Launch Campaign |
| Gravitas Press | From $25,000, up to $45,000 | You want the book written with you from interviews, or your manuscript elevated, under the executive imprint with PR strategy. See Gravitas Press |
Still weighing it? Take the free strategy call. A senior editor pressure-tests the argument and sends a one-page outline: the reader, the angle and the chapters.
What a book does
A candidate who has read how you lead knows what the job is like before the first interview, and you both find out sooner if it is not a fit.
Instead of re-pitching the market in every investor or partner meeting, you can send the chapters that make the case.
Board and advisory seats come through people who can point to your thinking. A book gives them something to point to.
Program committees and journalists look for the operator who wrote the book on the topic.
What a book does for you depends on how you put it to work. We promise no hires, rounds or invitations, and we publish no client figures we cannot evidence.
Unsure which book fits the company stage you are at? The free strategy call settles it.
Scope My BookChoosing the book
How you do the one thing you are known for: scaling a team, a turnaround, building culture, go-to-market. Useful to readers, and it shows candidates how you work.
Where your market is heading and what operators should do about it. The strongest choice when investors and partners are the readers.
The near-misses, pivots and calls that built the company. Best when the story itself is the reason people follow you.
Disclosure and governance
Your time
15 to 18 hours of your time if we write it with you, which is under an hour and a half a week across one quarter. The hours come as interviews of about 45 minutes, 20 to 24 in all, slotted around board meetings and moved when the business needs you. You review each chapter as it is drafted. Have a draft already? Production runs 4 to 9 weeks from the approved quote. Writing with a co-founder? Each of you is interviewed separately, which adds about fifteen percent to the timeline.
When it is done
The executive you have courted for months mentions chapter four in the final interview. An investor quotes a line back to you. A keynote invitation arrives with a note that the organizer read the book on a flight.
Programs
Three paths, each priced in writing, so a CFO or board can approve the budget before anything starts.
You wrote it
$4,999
Your manuscript copyedited, a cover and interior designed, the Amazon listing optimized, plus an author website and a press release, ready for the next investor, hire or reporter.
For the founder who already wrote it and wants it published properly, without a long production cycle.
Production typically 4 to 9 weeks
Get My Book PlanMost chosen
From $7,500
The Authority System with the full launch on top: developmental, line and copy editing, an audiobook, the 3-Day Bestseller Launch Campaign and 15 printed copies to put in front of your board and key accounts.
For the CEO who wants print, ebook and audio at once and copies on the boardroom table for launch week.
The full launch
Get My Book PlanWritten with you
From $25,000
The executive imprint: your argument written up from interviews, or your rough draft brought to executive standard, with PR strategy and 25 copies under Gravitas Press.
For the founder running the company full time: you give the interviews, a senior writer gives the draft, you keep your calendar.
Up to $45,000 written with you
Get My Book PlanWhat protects you and the company
One payment, in full, when you approve the written quote. The book, the rights and every royalty belong to you, not the company.
What you can count on
How it runs
We’ve started with Help writing the book. Add anything else your manuscript needs, and a specialist sends an itemised quote within one business day. Free, confidential, no obligation.
Written quote within one business day. Nothing is charged until you approve it. 100% of your rights stay yours.
Questions
The written-with-you route, Gravitas Press, runs up to $45,000; with your own manuscript it starts at $25,000 under the same executive imprint. If you want your draft published without the imprint, the Authority System is $4,999 (copyediting, design, publishing, an author website and a press release), and Authority Plus, from $7,500, adds full editing, an audiobook, 15 printed copies and the 3-Day Bestseller Launch Campaign.
For most private companies, no: board awareness is usually enough. For a public company, your general counsel reviews the manuscript for Reg FD and disclosure before print. Confidential information stays out, and the book makes no forward-looking promises about company performance.
Yes. Through Gravitas Press a senior writer builds it from structured interviews, 15 to 18 hours of your time in sessions of about 45 minutes. You approve every chapter. A ghostwriter without the imprint starts from $7,500.
Often, if you tell us early. Production takes 4 to 9 weeks once the manuscript is approved. Give us the raise, launch or conference date, and the written proposal works back from it, interviews and drafting included.
No. You own 100% of the rights and royalties personally, unless you decide to assign them to the company.
Yes. Company card or personal account, the fee is paid in full upfront once the written quote is approved.
Yes. Each of you is interviewed separately and the editor blends the two voices into one book. Plan on about fifteen percent more time than a single-author book.
Tell us the company and the reader. A specialist answers within one business day with a path and a written price.
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