Eric M. Jackson is the founder and former CEO of WND Books (formerly World Ahead Publishing) and a former vice president of marketing at PayPal. He is one of the PayPal Mafia, a growing number of PayPal alumni who have started new ventures after eBay bought the online payments firm. He served on the board of directors of The Stanford Review and holds a degree from Stanford University. Jackson maintains the book publishing industry blog called Con...
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Eric M. Jackson is the founder and former CEO of WND Books (formerly World Ahead Publishing) and a former vice president of marketing at PayPal. He is one of the PayPal Mafia, a growing number of PayPal alumni who have started new ventures after eBay bought the online payments firm. He served on the board of directors of The Stanford Review and holds a degree from Stanford University. Jackson maintains the book publishing industry blog called Conservative Publisher.
As a publisher, Jackson has been known to embrace controversial books and tactics. A bestselling children's book published by World Ahead, Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under my Bed penned by Katharine Debrecht, portrayed Hillary Rodham Clinton as a cartoon villain, prompting a verbal clash with Clinton's spokesman. He once accused Google of political bias for censoring online ads for a book critical of Bill Clinton, a charge Google denied, and he later paid to send Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick to the Bill...
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