"Over the years, we've had thousands of authors
asked to be published by Thomas Nelson and
we can really only meet the needs of so few
of them that we knew that aspiring authors
are out there needing services.
And so at that point we decided to go ahead
and explore a partnership with Author Solutions
and came to the conclusion that WestBow would
be a good opportunity for us to meet the needs
of not just the authors we had been publishing
the traditional way but to each of the authors
that come to us and need and want their book
to be published."
"WestBow Press really is a different animal.
We are a division of a traditional publisher,
Thomas Nelson, and as such, we do look at
each of the titles that are published under
WestBow and look at the sales numbers, look
at how they're being reviewed on Amazon, look
at the buzz for them in the marketplace.
And the titles that are being responded to
well in the marketplace, we suggest to the
publishers and editors at Thomas Nelson that
they consider acquiring those titles because
they've begun to prove themselves.
We recently acquired a title that hadn't actually
been published by WestBow yet but it had a
lot of buzz going in the WestBow team.
So, I think that's really the distinguishing
factor is that as a division of Thomas Nelson,
the WestBow titles do have an opportunity
to be acquired by Thomas Nelson, and I actually
work for Thomas Nelson and that's one of my
responsibilities is to suggest titles to the
editors and publishers that would be appropriate
for acquisition."
