Book Publishing that Establishes Your Authority for AI Citations.

If ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini don't know who you are as an author, your book is invisible. Axon Press publishes, distributes, and makes your book AI-discoverable.
Axon Press - book publishing integrated with AI discovery

Today, readers don't just browse book shelves, they ask AI. Axon Press ensures that your work is discovered, and hard-codes your authority into the global AI knowledge graph.

70% of Books

Discovered through AI.

800M+

Questions on AI models weekly!

Axon Press books distributed to 39,000 - 45,000+ retailers, libraries, and schools worldwide.
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Book publishing for AI generation

Axon Press will publish, and distribute your book to over 39,000 book retailers through Ingram and Amazon, and help you become a trusted source for AI search engines using our proprietory AI-integration platform. While other book publishers optimize and fight for a spot on physical bookshelves, Axon Press optimizes for the top spot in AI-dominated digital mindscape.  Our innovative approach combines the best of traditonal book publishing - rigorous acquisition of impactful works, professional manuscript preparation, and royalty-based relationship - with technological innovations to turn your book into an AI-recognized authority.
Book Publishing

We turn your manuscript into highest-quality published book. That means professional editing by experienced inhouse editors, beautiful colored covers, ISBN, Library of Congress number, and generous royalty rate of up to 50%.

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Distribution

Your book is widely distributed nationally and globally through our partnership with Amazon and Ingram. While your book will be available in 39,000 - 45,000 retail outlets, we optimize for Amazon sales which still dominates the retail space, with about 85% of ebook sales, 80% of book distribution, and over 50% of new books sold.

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All Formatsfession

Your book will be available in paperback and ebook. Based on demand, we can also make your title available in hardcover and audiobook (DIY) formats.

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Keep the Rights

You retain the full rights to your work. File for copyright with the US Copyright office. You only give Axon Press the license to publish and distribute your book.

We map your book ideas for

AI Authority

Our system is designed to make you an authority, a trusted source, for AI search engines. About 800 million questions (and growing!) are asked on AI models weekly. Axon Press platforms you for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) - ensuring that your content is being citated and recommend within long-form generative AI responses. As AI models evolve, your structured data evolves with them and you get cited even more, while protecting your intellectual property. We are the first publisher to carefully integrate AI-authority building into the publishing process, and it is a long and painstaking process - there are no short cuts. It requires publisher-author partnership to establish your high-authority profile.
Axon Press maps author ideas for AI Authority

As an Author, we make you

AI Discoverable

Using our propriatory integrative AI tools, we give AI models a high speed "map" to your ideas so they can index you with 100% accuracy. Throughout the process, we purposefully adapt your work and platform for Answer Engine Optimization (AEO). This makes it possible for your work to surface in direct, concise answers in voice searches and AI summaries (like the one you see on Google AI Overviews). Axon Press is the only publishing house that integrates this into every phase of its publishing program to ensure AI visibility for the ideas you care and write about.
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Publisher-Author Partnership

Mapping and encoding your ideas into AI mindscape is hardwork. It requires investment of time, effort, capital, and AI tools to make that happen. It is a long game designed to make you an authority. So, we recognize that Axon Press may not be for everyone. Ours is a platform for thought-leaders and influencers who want to publish high impact books, establish their authority in a given field, and map their ideas into AI code system as trusted sources for years to come. If you do not have the commitment for initial investement of time and resources to do this, then, Axon Press may not be for you. We invite only serious thought leaders to partner with us in this innovative publishing model. Here is a snapshot of what we expect from you and what you should expect from us.
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Non-financial

Investment

Required

High-quality manuscript that adds sigificant value to readers

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Timely response to editorial requests and mansucript changes

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Collaborate with editors to create authority-building content across platforms

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Willingness to put your name forward and promote your work within your circle.

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Commitment to long term authority building strategy that establishes you as reliable source for AI models

Investment

Professional editing & stunning book covers included.

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Your book published with highest print quality.

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Book published in paperback, ebook, hardcover, and audiobook (DIY as needed).

SEO/AEO/GEO optimized author page hosted and managed on our proprietary platform

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Authority Building

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Full SEO/AEO/GEO optimized author-managed website (hosted free for first year only)

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Advanced AI Discoverability

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50% royalty rate on all sales

Keep 100% of the rights to your work

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What You Get For Your

Monetary

Your Questions, Answered

Frequently Asked Questions

  • What is Axon Press?

    Axon Press is an innovative AI-integrated book publisher based in Aurora, Illinois. It acquires, publishes, and distributes books and makes them available in paperback, ebook, hardcover, and audiobook formats as needed.

  • What makes Axon Press different from other book publishers?

    As far as we know, Axon Press is the first AI-integrated full-suite book publisher. It incorporates AEO/GEO discoverability tools into every phase of its publishing process, from manuscript analysis, manuscript preparation, sales, and platforming authors as trusted sources for AI models for citation and recommendation. This is perhaps the most important distinctive of Axon Press, a long term, unique value that only Axon Press offers through its proprietory platform.

  • Is my work protected from AI models?

    Yes. While Axon Press codes your book ideas into AI mindscape, our proprietory platform ensures that the full body of your work is not used for AI training, thereby protecting your intellectual property.

  • What types of books does Axon Press publish?

    Axon Press publishes a diverse range of fiction and nonfiction, including genres like Romance, Thrillers, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Self-help, Memoir, Business, Leadership, and Health and Wellness.

  • How does the royalty model work?

    We operate on a royalty model, offering authors up to 50% royalty on net receipts from book sales. This ensures that our authors are fairly compensated for their work.

  • Do I keep the rights to my book?

    Yes. You hold the rights to your book - it is your intellectual property. You only give Axon Press license/permission to publish, distribute, and sell the book on your behalf. This permission may be revoked at anytime, but due to the nature of the publishing industry and the nature of our authority-building platform, we recommend an initial 10-year licensing period.

  • Can I submit an AI-generated manuscript?

    No, we do not accept AI-generated manuscripts. While authors can use AI for ideas or editing, all manuscripts must be original and pass our AI quality check.

  • Is Axon Press accepting new manuscripts?

    Yes. We are currently accepting queries for high-quality works in Romance, Thrillers, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Self-help, Memoir, Business, Leadership, and Health and Wellness

  • How can I query Axon Press?

    Queries can be submitted online through our website. We encourage authors to follow our submission guidelines for the best chance of acceptance.