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Dominique Raccah is the entrepreneurial Publisher and CEO of Sourcebooks, the company she founded from her home in 1987.
Originally a source of financial information for bankers, Dominique has led a continuously growing, pioneering general book publishing house that happily produces everything from adult and teen fiction, romance, thrillers, mysteries, top titles in children’s books, baby names, college guides, calendars, and more.
Sourcebooks proudly publishes an array of new, thought-provoking, and diverse voices, and is committed to its mission to change lives through books. The largest women-led book publisher in North America, Sourcebooks today has over 200 employees and has created hundreds of national and New York Times bestsellers across genres.
Dominique is widely recognized as a leader in data and innovation - Sourcebooks has won every innovation award that the industry gives - as well as in the field itself, being named Publishers Weekly's Person of the Year in 2016 and a “Top 25 Book Business Change Maker” in 2022.
Dominique's Interview with Entrepreneur.com's Women's Channel
Dominique's Acceptance Speech Strand Magazine Publisher of the Year Award 2019
PRESENTATION AND TALKS
Dominique has been invited to and accepted invitations to speak all over the world. Here are some of her speaking engagements:
- Digipalooza Keynote - August 2021
- Publishing Now - April 2021
- IPG International Publishing Forum Views from UK and US Leaders - March 2021
- BookMachine on Clubhouse - February 2021
- DPI Keynote – July 2020
- Sharjah International Book Fair Publishers Conference - October 2019
- Simon Fraser University – The Jim Douglas Lecture – September 2019
- BookExpo Leadership Roundtable - May 2019
- IBPA Publishing University – April 2019
- Frankfurt Book Fair (Oct 2017) – Innovators Meet Up with the Bookseller
- Berrett-Koehler (Jul 2017): Marketing Workshop Keynote
- New York University (Jun 2017): Summer Publishing Institute Keynote
- BookExpo (May 2017): The Future of Publishing
- Chinese Children's Book Fair (Nov 2016): Digital Trailblazers - Children's Publishing and the Virtual World
- Nielsen Children's Summit (Oct 2016): Gaining Market Share in a World of Endless Content
- Digital Book World (Mar 2016): Transformation in Action - Sourcebooks
- Digital Book World, Launch Kids (Mar 2016): Through the Looking Glass - The Past, Present, and Future of Children's Publishing
- Havana Book Fair (Feb 2016): The Development of Digital
- Launch Kids (Jan 2015): Personalization of the Story
- Buenos Aires International Book Fair (Apr 2014): Creativity and Innovation in the World of Publishing
- Digital Book World (Jan 2014): Rethinking Failure - Finding the Opportunities in Our Challenges
- Publishers Launch Conference (Jan 2013): PutMeInTheStory.com
- Denver Publishing Institute (Aug 2012): Commencement Speech
- Digital Book World (Jan 2011): eBook Experimentation, the Agility of Small Book Publishers, the New Definition of Publishing and Learning Through Failure
ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS, AND MORE...
- Sourcebooks Net Revenue Jumped 48% in First Half of 2021 (Aug 2021)
- Inside Publishing YouTube Series (Jul 2021)
- Sourcebooks Forms E-Commerce and Online Marketing Department (Feb 2021)
- Sourcebooks Donates $200K in Justice Ginsburg's Memory (Jan 2021)
- Sourcebooks Announces Partnership with PRH’s DK for Europe and the UK (Sept 2020)
- Sourcebooks Rolls Out 'How to Catch' Club (Aug 2020)
- Sourcebooks Acquires Chicago Self-Publisher's List (Feb 2020)
- Sourcebooks Forms International Sales Group (Oct 2019)
- Local book publisher sells stake to Penguin Random House (May 2019)
- Entrepreneur.com's Women's Channel features Dominique Raccah as she talks about the Core Values at Sourcebooks (Aug 2018)
- A Closer Look at Sourcebooks, Dominique Raccah’s “Female-Forward” Publishing Company (May 2018)
- Sourcebooks, Leading Publishing Co., signs with the Gotham Group (Sep 2017)
- Sourcebooks Celebrates 20th Anniversary with Backlist Offer for Indie Booksellers (Aug 2017)
- 7 Top Book Marketing Takeaways from BookExpo 2017 (Jun 2017)
- Raccah Hails Publishing's 'Golden Age of Opportunity' (Mar 2017)
- Sourcebooks Acquires Little Pickle Press (Jan 2017)
- Dominique Raccah: Publisher's Weekly Person of the Year, 2016 (Dec 2016)
- Publisher's Dilemma: Judge A Book By Its Data or Trust the Editor's Gut (Aug 2016)
- Barnes & Noble to Test Personalized Children's Books (Feb 2016)