About publishing.com

While attending community college and working as Chinese food delivery drivers in New Jersey, twin brothers Christian and Rasmus realized getting a degree so they could eventually work an unsatisfying 9-5 job the rest of their lives did not sound like an attractive life plan.

By the end of the summer, Rasmus and Christian were making enough money from their books to move out of their parents’ house, so they quit their jobs, dropped out of college, and booked one-way tickets to Chiang Mai, Thailand. Their biggest motivation for building a business online was so they could travel and experience all the most amazing places across the world.

Christian & Rasmus move to Hawaii and Christian starts turning his books into audiobooks and selling them on Audible. They quickly become his best-selling books and he makes over $10,000 per month. The Mikkelsen Twins YouTube channel is born. After posting a video every other day for 6 months talking all about book and audiobook publishing, they reach 1,000 subscribers.

Audiobook Impact Academy 1.0 is launched in September and 96 students join on the first day. The twins end the year traveling to Mexico, UK, Italy, Greece, Egypt, and then finishing off in Bali where they stayed for the next 8 months.

The majority of the year is spent just filming YouTube videos and creating Audiobook Impact Academy 2.0. They travel to Australia, Lombok, Komodo Island, Japan, Cuba, Croatia, Spain and Denmark.

Publishing.com is born as the twins hire their first 3 team members to help manage and coach their growing community of online publishers. At this point, the AIA program has helped over 100 people worldwide to make full time income with book publishing on Amazon and Audible. Rasmus and Christian both get married and Rasmus’ first son is born.

In July 2020, Rasmus and Christian are published in Entrepreneur magazine, and then in Forbes magazine in December.

Publishing.com takes off as thousands of new students join the program. By the end of the year, over 15,000 students are discovering the freedom of publishing.

“The Freedom Shortcut” is released, selling over 9,000 copies in the first week and becomes a Wall Street Journal Best Seller.

An explosive year of growth results in over 40 new hires positioning Publishing.com as the leading education company in the self-publishing industry.

Publishing.com is nationally recognized as one of the fastest growing private companies in America, placing 19th on the Inc. 5000 list.