Transform Your Dissertation into a Book
After attaining your PhD, the real work then begins. You must secure a job and, very likely, get published. We can and will help you do both, through our transformational editing and publishing services.
Become a Published Scholar
We cannot over-emphasize the crucial importance of your becoming a published scholar. No matter what your discipline or doctoral degree, you will publish or perish, as the old saying goes. It is absolutely true.
One study determined that those PhDs who are unpublished suffer the fate of earning, on average, 25-40% less income throughout their entire professional career. The same study found that those PhDs who convert their dissertations into published books find secure positions 1-3 months more quickly and at a 10-25% higher salary than those PhDs who don’t. One more statistic is equally compelling: those PhDs with five or more publications to their credit are five times more likely to “achieve their financial and personal goals” than those PhDs who publish little or nothing.
Transform your Dissertation into a Book
The solution is to have us transform your dissertation and publish under our Baldwin Scholars Press imprint. [NOTE: Baldwin Book Publishing will be launching by February or March 2012.]
We encourage PhDs with worthy dissertations to have us perform transformational editing on them—after they’ve been edited by us and successfully defended, of course—removing all the dissertation-ese and making them look and sound like scholarly books, rather than dissertations.
By “worthy,’’ we mean that we will definitely not transform or publish dissertations that we consider to have limited potential for being turned into successful books. We evaluate dissertations and act as curators, accepting only those that we can enthusiastically stand behind and put the Baldwin name on.
So, PhDs who believe they have a genuinely publishable book that they have either had refused by an academic press or do not want to submit to one may find our services useful. For example, if your dissertation presents information of interest to a general reading public, you should consider transforming it into a book. Perhaps you haven’t had much success publishing through the traditional academic press. Perhaps you don’t wish to subject yourself to the traditional peer review process.
Make Your C.V. Stand Out with Your Published Scholarly Book
Many publishable dissertations are routinely refused by traditional publishers, academic and otherwise.Edit911, Inc. & BBP will meet your needs. The dissertations we transform into books and publish will not be peer-reviewed, nor will there be an editorial board because we are not an academic press.
It’s important to understand that BBP has no delusions or aspirations of putting solid, worthwhile academic publishing companies out of business. Far from it. We are simply offering a respectable, commercial alternative for PhDs who want their dissertations published.
If you believe in your dissertation, we encourage you to consider employing our skilled editors to transform it into a publishable book.
Check these pdfs for more information:
TRANSFORMING YOUR DISSERTATION Transformative Editing Sample Proposal