Eric M. Jackson
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Eric M. Jackson is the president of World Ahead Publishing and a former marketing employee at PayPal. He is one of a growing number of PayPal alumni who have started new ventures after eBay bought the online payments firm.[1] He served on the board of directors of The Stanford Review and holds a degree from Stanford University. [2] Jackson maintains the book publishing industry blog called Conservative Publisher.[3]
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.[4] He once accused Google of political bias for censoring online ads for a book critical of Bill Clinton, a charge Google denied,[5] and he later paid to send Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick to the Bill Clinton Presidential Library along with the book's author.[6] In October 2006, Jackson and Joseph Farah, the founder of WorldNetDaily, announced that World Ahead Publishing would be partnering on the influential WND Books imprint. [7]
Jackson's own book The PayPal Wars (ISBN 0974670103) chronicles PayPal's origins and discusses the legal, regulatory, and competitive threats entrepreneurs must overcome in today's business environment.[8] It won the 2005 Writers Notes Book Award for best business book.[9] It has been profiled by Reason Magazine,[10] the Washington Times,[11] the Von Mises Institute,[12] Tech Central Station[13], and Tom Peters.[14]
Jackson frequently appears as a conservative commentator on radio and television programs. In his public comments he is frequently critical of eBay, the company that purchased PayPal. He has been quoted in Forbes,[15] BusinessWeek,[16] TheStreet.com,[17] US News & World Report,[18] and Publishers Weekly,[19] among other publications.
