Filling the Glass: The Skeptic's Guide to Positive Thinking

by Barry Maher
(Las Vegas, Nevada, USA)

Filling the Glass was originally published by Dearborn Trade Publishing. They actually did a good job promoting it for the first year or so. It won several honors. Today's Librarian magazine cited it as "One of The Seven Essential Popular Business Books" that all libraries should carry. Foreign rights were sold and foreign editions published in five or six languages.

After a certain period, of course, Dearborn stopped promoting the book. At that point, virtually all the sales were driven by the PR we generated and the speaking engagements I did. And we were getting about $1 per copy in royalties.

After a couple of years of this, when we got the chance to get the rights back to Filling the Glass I jumped at them. Now we get the bulk of the profit from each copy sold. Which of course gives us even more incentive to promote the book.

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