About Us
909 Publishing was built for writers, authors, experts, professionals, and public-facing thinkers who need more than a manuscript or a static book page. A finished book can be valuable, but a modern author also needs a durable platform: an author page, a media kit, a launch story, email assets, social proof, and a simple system for converting attention into readers, buyers, speaking opportunities, clients, or long-term credibility.
Our work blends old-school publishing discipline with new-media execution. We care about titles, covers, chapters, editing, layout, and print-ready materials, but we also care about the modern context in which books live. Today, a book often functions as an authority asset. It supports a professional reputation, strengthens a speaking platform, clarifies a point of view, and gives the author something credible to place at the center of a broader media presence.
We are especially useful for busy people who have expertise but do not have the time or internal staff to coordinate every piece of a publishing launch. The work can include book structure, ghostwriting support, editorial development, visual presentation, author websites, media kits, launch email, press pages, podcast briefing materials, and follow-up campaigns.
Eric Melin
ounder Eric Melin was featured on the front page of The Wall Street Journal in the article “How to Get Attention in a New-Media World.” 909 Publishing applies that same core idea for professionals who want to publish better, look credible, and reach the right audience across print, web, email, social, podcast, investor, and media channels.
Eric’s own books and media projects are part of the 909 Publishing portfolio, but the business is specifically designed to help clients package their expertise and transform serious ideas into durable public-facing intellectual-property assets. Eric has traveled to more than 30 countries and most of the United States, but can usually be found within the broader “venture & innovation ecosystem” connected to universities, startup communities, conferences, publishing events, fundraising circles, media environments, and entrepreneurial organizations throughout Boston, Cambridge, New York, and beyond. Those environments continue to shape the philosophy behind 909 Publishing and its focus on authority-building, positioning, communication, and long-term credibility.
Eric Melin is a founder, entrepreneur, technologist, publisher, and media strategist based in the Harvard Square / Boston University / MIT startup ecosystem in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His career spans more than two decades across publishing, digital media, venture-backed startups, enterprise software sales, fundraising, search marketing, online infrastructure, and business development.
Eric previously built and sold a Boston-area advertising and search-marketing agency that was among the earliest SEO/SEM/PPC consulting firms during the early commercial internet era — “1997 BC” (Before Google). What began as a white-hat SEO consultancy later evolved into PositionClick, a broader digital strategy and demand-generation firm serving startups, professional-services organizations, venture-backed technology companies, and Fortune 500 clients.
Over the years, Eric has founded, co-founded, advised, invested in, or operated ventures spanning publishing, software, media, philanthropy, compliance technology, infrastructure, financial services, fundraising, and business brokerage. His background combines technical systems thinking with executive communication, digital publishing, online growth strategy, storytelling, and commercial business development.
909 Publishing was created from the belief that books, long-form media, and subject-matter expertise still matter deeply in a world increasingly dominated by algorithms, AI-generated noise, short-form content, and disposable social-media metrics. While likes, clicks, impressions, and followers may influence visibility, professionally developed publishing assets still create trust, authority, and long-term credibility in ways that transient platforms often cannot.
Among various media appearances, Eric was featured on the front page of The Wall Street Journal in the article “How to Get Attention in a New-Media World,” a moment that helped shape the long-term philosophy behind 909 Publishing. In a single day, millions of readers saw one printed newspaper article, the phone rang “off the hook,” and years of work in digital marketing suddenly gained broader perspective. The experience reinforced how traditional publishing, books, newspapers, and long-form authority assets can continue creating influence long after short-term digital trends disappear.
Today, 909 Publishing combines traditional publishing discipline with modern digital distribution systems including websites, podcasts, media kits, email campaigns, investor materials, executive branding, SEO, authority positioning, and social-media strategy.
The company works with founders, executives, consultants, entrepreneurs, investors, nonprofit leaders, travel writers, political commentators, subject-matter experts, and authors seeking to build durable intellectual-property assets around their expertise, reputation, and life experience. In many cases, clients are already accomplished professionals but simply lack the time, internal staff, structure, or publishing systems necessary to transform years of knowledge into books, articles, speeches, podcasts, newsletters, websites, or broader media ecosystems.
909 Publishing also recognizes the increasing importance of the operational systems behind modern publishing. Many successful professionals do not personally have hundreds of hours available to write, edit, package, distribute, market, optimize, and maintain media assets themselves. The company helps bridge that gap while allowing clients to maintain ownership, authorship, visibility, and long-term authority around their ideas and intellectual property.
In addition to publishing and media work, Eric has operated within enterprise software sales, Wall Street broker-dealer environments, venture-backed startups, and federal government disaster-relief operations. He previously worked full-time for the United States Small Business Administration during COVID relief efforts and has held growth-oriented business-development roles within multiple VC/PE-backed software businesses.
Eric also donates significant personal time to PHILANTHROPIST.org, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit initiative focused on philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and social impact. Through a related initiative, Major Gift Decisions (MGD), he also supports nonprofit organizations, fundraising strategy, donor communications, institutional relationship development, and philanthropic positioning.
Additional ventures connected to Eric’s broader ecosystem include PositionClick (digital strategy and SEO infrastructure), 909 Publishing, PopuTrust, The Market Accelerator, and several media, hosting, and venture-development initiatives connected to the broader “909” platform ecosystem.
Today, 909 Publishing operates at the intersection of traditional publishing, digital media, executive positioning, and long-term brand credibility — helping professionals create books, media assets, and publishing ecosystems designed to outlast trends, platforms, algorithms, and news cycles.