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About Sideshow

Founded in 2000, Sideshow Media is a full-service book producer, specializing in illustrated books in the areas of the visual and performing arts, literature, pop culture, the New York region, and travel. Operating on a turnkey basis, Sideshow offers expertise and individual attention in every phase of book creation, from conceptualization to the editorial, design, picture acquisition, and production functions, for trade publishers and other clients. Sideshow can deliver mechanicals, disks, film, or bound books, and also offers editorial and marketing consulting services.

FOR BOOK PUBLISHERS, Sideshow is a source of high-quality books that expertly bring difficult subjects into the mainstream. Sideshow is a one-stop outsourcing bureau for all editorial, design, and production functions, from copy-editing to producing bound books.

FOR INSTITUTIONS, Sideshow creates books that resonate with the aesthetic approach and the mission statement of the organization. Sideshow will work with your staff to define the goals of your book, and create a plan to implement those goals both editorially and in the commercial arena: as focal points for marketing and publicity efforts, and as generators of revenue.

FOR CORPORATIONS, Sideshow creates books with lasting value that succeed on their own in the marketplace based on the strength of their content and design, carrying your company's message in the process. Sideshow is a potent adjunct to your own marketing and publicity efforts, working closely with your company to understand its marketing and sales goals, and developing strategies for using its versatile new marketing tool-a book-to its utmost potential.

FOR MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS and other creators of content, Sideshow helps recognize and develop existing assets and re-package them into book form, thereby opening new opportunities for revenue, publicity, and promotion. We will work with you from initial concept through editorial and design development and distribution and marketing with an established trade publisher.