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The best-selling business book, at the moment, according to the New York Times bestseller list,

is Atomic Habits by James Clear, an easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones.

It's a massive success, sold over a million, but we're not

talking about atomic habits today, interesting as that might be. We're talking about books,

specifically business books. Now, I appreciate this as a broad category. Atomic habits are probably

useful in all walks of life, not just in business.

But we do all know there is a genre of publishing called business.

It spans biography, textbooks, personal finance and economics, entrepreneurship, big theories about the world and how to thrive,

and of course, get rich quick fixes.

The business sections of bookshops, especially those curiously located in airports and the like, are always packed with titles regularly refreshed.

They're never short of a new bestseller. But who reads them all? Well, enough people do

to make business books a sizable industry in its own right, and that is our

topic today. The business of books on business. I'm joined by three guests, two publishers and one author,

and let's meet them. First up, Alison Jones, a publisher, practical inspiration books, and presenter of

the Extraordinary Business Book Club podcast.

So Alison, just talk us through your model of publishing, a little bit different because

you used to be at Paul Grave Macmillan, which is obviously a very established publisher.

How do you do it?

So yes, you're right.

I've come out of traditional publishing, within that all my life.

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