As an independent publisher, you're focused on two things - publishing great books and selling the heck out of them. Everything else gets put on the back burner. Unfortunately, the demands of day-to-day business life cannot be ignored. If you don't manage your business, soon it will be managing you. According to a recent survey published by Foreword Magazine and the New York University Center for Publishing, over half of small publishers have been in business for less than 5 years, fewer than half prepare annual sales forecasts and barely half prepare an annual budget.