New publisher Reed & Alden launches Mastery Lessons with Times Square billboard campaign

NEW YORK - Rezul -- Mastery Lessons, published by Florent Press, an imprint of the newly established Reed & Alden Publishers, is released today following a media event and digital billboard campaign in Times Square on Tuesday, November 10.

A photo shoot and the billboard campaign carried the book through the days before its release. The publisher has also seen encouraging early interest on Amazon before the formal launch and is pursuing Bestseller status for the book in the positive psychology, consulting psychology, and ethics categories.

The book shares its name with Mastery Lessons, an ongoing Substack publication at MasteryLessons.com that asks how intelligent, accomplished adults cross the distance between knowing and becoming.

The pairing reflects the view on which Reed & Alden was founded: that authors now control much of what publishers once controlled alone, and that a publisher has to earn its place in an author's career through judgment, expertise, transparency, and execution.

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"For most of the modern book industry's history, an author needed a publisher's permission to reach a substantial market," said Kimberly Bentley, CEO of Reed & Alden Publishers. "Those functions still matter. What has changed is that the largest publishers no longer hold exclusive access to them."

Bentley came to publishing as a successful self-published fiction writer working under a pen name. Over time she worked with major publishing houses and hybrid publishers, and she encountered pricing and service models whose value was difficult to justify.

"I was always willing to pay professionals for excellent work," Bentley said. "What I objected to was paying for the appearance of a publishing partnership without receiving a real one."

Reed & Alden is organized around focused imprints. Florent Press concentrates on psychology, personal development, and questions of how people think and live, while Criterium Press is devoted to business, strategy, and investing.

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Bentley describes the Times Square campaign as an illustration of the opportunity and its limits. A billboard can create a memorable public moment, and Amazon makes a book immediately accessible, but neither builds a lasting readership on its own.

"The deeper work happens through the author's ideas, the publisher's standards, and the relationship that continues after the launch," she said.

Mastery Lessons is available now on Amazon. The ongoing publication can be found at MasteryLessons.com.

About Reed & Alden Publishers

Reed & Alden Publishers is a new publishing house built around specialized imprints, including Florent Press (psychology, personal development, and how people think and live) and Criterium Press (business, strategy, and investing).

For more information, visit Reed & Alden website (https://reedalden.com/).