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Agora's Big Black Book

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Agora's Big Black Book
AuthorMark Morgan Ford, Rocky Vega
Published2015
Pages661
RecommendedOnce
BuyAmazon
Why it’s on the listAgora’s internal manual on writing, marketing, managing and publishing — the house playbook of a direct-response business that did billions.

Where I heard about it

  • @coleschfr — on X, June 2026: “a secret book that has been sold privately for thousands, from a company that has done billions in direct response, now free.”

About this edition

[STALE] — the free copy is gone. The post pointed at agorablackbook.com, which returned 404 when checked in September 2026. The book is an internal Agora manual in four parts — new-employee onboarding, editorial and big-idea construction, marketing and reader psychology, and the publisher’s management manual — compiled by Mark Morgan Ford with Rocky Vega and not sold through normal retail, so a store listing may not exist either. Copies circulate as scanned PDFs.

Connections

  • Company Building — an operating manual written for insiders rather than for readers.
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