Eric M. Jackson

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Eric M. Jackson is the president of World Ahead Publishing and a former vice president of marketing 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. He once accused Google of political bias for censoring online ads for a book critical of Bill Clinton, a charge Google denied,[4] and he later paid to send Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick to the Bill Clinton Presidential Library along with the book's author.[5] 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. [6]

Jackson's own book The PayPal Wars (ISBN 0-9746701-0-3) chronicles PayPal's origins and discusses the legal, regulatory, and competitive threats entrepreneurs must overcome in today's business environment.[7] It won the 2005 Writers Notes Book Award for best business book.[8] It has been profiled by Reason Magazine,[9] the Washington Times,[10] the Von Mises Institute,[11] Tech Central Station[12], and Tom Peters.[13]

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,[14] BusinessWeek,[15] TheStreet.com,[16] US News & World Report,[17] and Publishers Weekly,[18] among other publications.