Reach people who will never watch your best video.
Turn one proven public video into a professionally edited free ebook distributed through major retailers.
Joe Bryan’s free ebook has been downloaded more than 600 times since June 2025. You approve the manuscript and cover direction; I handle the rest.
Documented result: more than 600 downloads since June 2025.
One video. More than 600 downloads.
Thorn Publishing turned Joe Bryan’s public YouTube video about inflation, broken money, and Bitcoin into What’s the Problem?, a free ebook available from Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers. It has been downloaded more than 600 times since June 2025.
Case Study: Joe Bryan
Publishing background
J. Thorn has published more than 100 fiction, nonfiction, and collaborative titles. That experience makes this a finished-book service, not file conversion.
A strong idea gains new ways to be found, downloaded, shared, and read beyond its original platform.
J. Thorn on Amazon — 116 published titles.
Why turn a video into a book?
One proven idea can serve a larger audience when it is available in more than one format and more than one place.
Reach beyond video
Serve people who prefer reading or will not watch a long video.
Create more discovery paths
Give the idea retailer listings where readers can encounter it through search and browsing.
Build a durable asset
Create a downloadable, searchable format that can be saved, shared, assigned, and revisited.
This is editorial adaptation—not a transcript dump or automated transcription. I reshape the spoken material into a structured book and manage publication from start to finish.
Some people will never watch your best video. Give them the book instead.
You provide
- Public video link
- Adaptation permission
- Final text approval
- Cover direction
I handle
- Transcript extraction
- Prose adaptation
- Editing and proofreading
- Ebook formatting
- Cover designer coordination
- Metadata and description
- Retailer upload and free distribution
What kinds of videos fit
Clear
One important idea, argument, lesson, or framework that does not depend on constant visuals.
Evergreen
Still relevant months or years from now—not a news reaction, launch announcement, or temporary campaign.
Public-interest
The ebook should be free because the idea matters more than ebook revenue.
How the process works
Pricing
Fixed fees are based on video length and include managed cover design plus the first year of active listing custody.
| Up to 20 minutes | $5,000 |
|---|---|
| 21–40 minutes | $7,500 |
| 41–60 minutes | $10,000 |
| Over 60 minutes | Individually scoped |
Included
- Adaptation, editing, and proofreading
- Ebook formatting
- Professional cover design
- Metadata and book description
- Retailer upload
- EPUB and PDF reference files
- First year of active listing custody
After year one
Active listing custody is $750/year and includes basic retailer availability checks, minor metadata corrections, continued account custody, and unpublishing on request.
Without custody, the ebook may be unpublished from Thorn Publishing LLC’s accounts.
What this is not
Not paid-book publishing
Free public ebooks only; no paid editions, royalty management, or revenue strategy.
Not a launch campaign
No ads, social media management, funnels, or promises of sales, downloads, reviews, subscribers, or visibility.
Not paperback production
Ebook only; print requires separate files, costs, inventory decisions, and platform obligations.
Not ghostwriting from scratch
The idea must already exist in the public video; I adapt and publish it rather than inventing it.
Ownership
The creator retains rights to the original material. Thorn Publishing LLC publishes the free ebook through its accounts under agreed terms.
Put your best idea in front of more readers.
Send the public video link and a brief note about who you want the free ebook to reach.
The best fit is one strong evergreen video with a proven message.