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The New Book Launch Playbook
Mel Robbins, James Clear, Tim Ferriss, Ryan Holiday, and Alex Hormozi — five book launches that defined how non-fiction authors actually market books in 2026.
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Which Communications Books Show Up Most In AI Answers?
EPR queried five AI engines on the most-asked PR and marketing book prompts. Which titles get cited most, which disappear, and what the pattern reveals.
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The Marketing Books That Changed Corporate America
Positioning, Purple Cow, Hooked, Crossing the Chasm, StoryBrand — the marketing books that rewrote how brands are built and how products get sold.
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The Most Frequently Cited Books In Communications
EPR audited PR conference programs, agency reading lists, syllabi, and executive interviews. The most frequently cited communications books in 2026 — by evidence.
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Marketing Ideas That Escaped Their Books and Built Companies
Hooked, Purple Cow, StoryBrand, Positioning — the marketing concepts that broke out of their books and became the operating logic of real companies.
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Brandon Webb. The Navy Seal. Founder and CEO of Hurricane Media
Brandon Webb: Portrait of a Navy SEAL and Entrepreneur.
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The 2017 Dystopian Book Surge: A Publishing Case Study
The 2017 dystopian fiction surge — 1984 sales rose 10,000 percent in weeks, Fahrenheit 451 and The Handmaid's Tale moved up the bestseller lists, and the publishing category permanently reset. Historical case study in how political moments drive book sales.
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Why PR Agency Leaders Keep Writing Books
Edelman, Burson, Golin, Cook, Torossian, Sitrick, Dilenschneider — why the founders of major PR agencies keep writing books. The business mechanics.
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50 Public Relations Books That Influenced the Industry
A structured reference of 50 books that shaped modern public relations — crisis, media relations, corporate comms, IR, politics, reputation, digital, and AI Communications.
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The Communications Books Executives Actually Finish
Most business books are bought and never finished. Atomic Habits, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, The Obstacle Is the Way, and The 4-Hour Workweek are exceptions.