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Publishing for investment bankers and private equity partners
Most founders sell one company in their life. Before they choose who runs the sale, they read up on you. A book on your sector, in your voice, is the best thing they can find.
Name your sector and who you want reading: owners, LPs or co-investors. Within one business day you get the path we would take and its price, in writing.
The short answer
Columbia Publication publishes books for investment bankers and PE partners in three ways: the Authority System at $4,999 for your finished manuscript, Authority Plus from $7,500 with full editing, an audiobook and 15 copies, or Gravitas Press from $25,000, up to $45,000 written with you in about 15 to 18 hours of interviews. Your CCO signs off before print. Rights and royalties stay 100% yours.
Prices checked October 26, 2026 · Reviewed by Gia Kahn, Lead Editor · Next review November 2026 · How we check
Is this you?
Every pitch book in your sector looks the same from the founder's side of the table.
Tombstones, league tables, AUM, a team page. The founder flips past all of it. What they cannot see is the thing that wins the mandate: how you read their market, what you would fix first, why you structure the way you do. That stays locked in meetings they have not agreed to yet.
A book puts it on their desk first. We draw it out of you in interviews or shape your own draft, your compliance team reviews every page, and it is published under your name, not the firm's.
Start here
Pick by one question: how much of the writing do you want to do yourself?
| 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 up? The strategy call is free. A senior editor pushes on your thesis like a skeptical founder would, then sends a one-page outline: the angle, the reader and the chapters.
What a book does
It does your first meeting for you, before you are in the room. Four places it earns its keep:
An owner who has read your chapter on their market takes the call already knowing how you think.
Allocators get your approach in full, in one place, instead of in fragments across a deck.
Other sponsors remember the partner who wrote the book on the sector.
Program committees and boards go looking for people who have published.
How much it does depends on how you use it. We do not promise outcomes, and we do not publish client figures we cannot back up.
Not sure which book fits your practice? Ask on the free strategy call.
Plan My Sector BookChoosing the book
The ones a founder would read on a Sunday because it is about their business. Three shapes come up most:
What is shifting in your sector, and where the value gets made over the next cycle.
How you judge a business, structure the deal and grow it to exit, told plainly.
The transaction that defined you, or why you started the firm.
Professional rules
Not when it is built for review from the first outline. What that means in practice:
Your time
About 15 to 18 hours if we write it with you. A senior writer runs structured interviews of about 45 minutes, booked around your deal calendar, and you review each chapter as it lands. When a process heats up, the next session moves; the book waits, the deal does not. If you already have a manuscript, production takes 4 to 9 weeks from an approved quote. Co-authoring with a partner? Each of you is interviewed separately.
When it is done
An owner you have chased for two years emails on a Tuesday. They read your chapter on their market over the weekend and want to ask about the part on margins. You did not pitch. They came with questions.
Programs
Three ways in. Each one comes as a written quote your firm can sign off.
You wrote it
$4,999
Your manuscript copyedited, then cover, interior, Amazon setup, an author website and a press release. Laid out so compliance can review it quickly.
For the partner with a draft already written: a finished book on the founder's desk before the sale conversation starts.
Production typically 4 to 9 weeks
Get My Book PlanMost chosen
From $7,500
Everything in the Authority System, plus developmental, line and copy editing, an audiobook, 15 printed copies and the 3-Day Bestseller Launch Campaign.
Fifteen copies to hand to owners, LPs and portfolio CEOs, and an audiobook they can play on the flight to your meeting.
The full launch
Get My Book PlanWritten with you
From $25,000
Written with you from interviews between deals, or your draft raised to the imprint's standard, with PR strategy and 25 copies.
For the partner in the middle of a live process: the thinking gets on paper and the deal does not slow down.
Up to $45,000 written with you
Get My Book PlanWhat protects you and your firm
One payment once your firm approves the quote. The rights and royalties sit with you personally.
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
$4,999 for the Authority System: your manuscript copyedited, designed, published and launched with an author website and press release. Authority Plus starts at $7,500 and adds all three levels of editing, an audiobook, 15 printed copies and the 3-Day Bestseller Launch Campaign. Gravitas Press runs from $25,000 with your manuscript to $45,000 written with you from interviews.
Not if it is written for review from day one. We follow the Advisers Act marketing rule, broker-dealer rules and any limits tied to a fund offering. There is no general solicitation for a fund, no return projections, and no client or portfolio confidences. Your CCO signs off before print.
Yes. Through Gravitas Press a senior writer builds the book from structured interviews, about 15 to 18 hours of your time, and a session moves whenever a deal needs you. You approve every chapter. Ghostwriting outside the imprint starts from $7,500.
4 to 9 weeks of production once the manuscript is final and compliance has signed off. If we write it with you, there is a drafting phase first, and your proposal puts a date on it.
Not through us. The rights and royalties are 100% yours, in your name. Your firm may have its own policy on outside publications, so check it before you start.
Yes, either works. Firm or personal card, the quote is paid in full once it is approved.
Yes, and we plan for it. Your CCO and counsel read the manuscript before print, and we revise to their comments.
A line on your sector and the reader you want. A specialist writes back within one business day.
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