Back to school press creates limited edition books that highlight and preserve your school's unique heritage and traditions. By working in partnership with various school organizations and alumni associations we are able to create, market and distribute high-quality books that can be used to generate income, while creating alumni community awareness and pride.

A high-quality keepsake book can become a family treasure for years to come. Back to School Press has created a simple, easy to implement program in which any organization can successfully participate.

With our one of a kind program, there are never any out of pocket costs to the association. Back to School Press covers all expenses of design, production, sales and order fulfillment. Our association partners simply assist in the initial conceptual design of the book and then implement certain very simple steps in our marketing program. The estimated number of "man hours" required of our partner's time - spread over the several month life of the project- is less than six.

We pay our association partners over double the industry average for author's royalties. As such, our alumni association partners have the opportunity to generate tens of thousands of dollars in revenue from this minimal effort.

Back to School Press produces high-quality cookbooks and coffee-table books designed to capture the attention of alumni and friends of the school, students, parents and vistors. Our paperback and hard cover books are produced with only the highest quality materials and workmanship. Each work is designed to capture the history of the school and the passion of its students and alumni.

Use as:

  • Fundraising/Income Sources
  • Keepsakes
  • Gifts/Giveaways
 
 

CookBooks

College-themed cookbooks are an incredibly popular item among students, alumni and friends of the institution. One reason for this popularity - and a main reason why they sell so well when offered - is that the the entire alumni community can become involved in the production of the book. A successful alumni cookbook has contributions from all ages of graduates.

Our cookbook concept is to be more than "just another cookbook." Our goal is to create a printed history of the school through the use of recipes, stories, photos and memories that spans generations. The resulting book becomes more of a social history of the school than a simple collection of recipes.

Our alumni association partners benefit by having a product that is easy-to-sell, with low price points, high margins and no capital investment.

Cookbooks are a wonderful way to generate significant income for the association or special cause while creating alumni and local community pride.

 

Coffee-Table Books

Limited-edition coffee-table photo books can help create a lasting record of your school or university.

Our archival quality books capture photos and images that span the history of your school and preserve memories and traditions for furture generations.

Each high-quality, full color keepsake contains photos, images and stories that will bring back memories for some and create new awareness for others.

In addition to generating income through on-going sales, our limited edition coffee table books can also be used as gifts to graduation students, donors, and other special guests.

 

 

 

the american cookbook is 200 years old


Amelia Simmons made history 200 years ago when she published the first edition of American Cookery, widely reputed to be the first cookbook written in America, by an American, for Americans. The book was.... (read on here)

US cookbook facts and stats



- Sales of cookbooks in the US have increased an average of 9% per year since 1996, despite overall declines in printed book sales.

- During the year 2000 alone, nearly 530 million cookbooks and wine books/magazines were sold in the US.

- Of adult book genres, approximately 10% of all books sold are cookbooks.

- Cookbooks are a $2 Billion a year industry in the US.

- Food and cooking television programming has been the fastest growing television programming segment since 2001.

What does this mean? Simply put, cookbooks are in high demand and those with an interesting theme will generate big sales!