Booksellers
Booksellers
Sales pitch, commercial sheet, author meeting request.
This page brings together what you need to reference the book, design a window display, or organise an author meeting. For commercial conditions, the author remains your direct contact.
Reference data
- Title
- The Death of Skills
- Subtitle
- What AI reveals about your talents, and what your skills conceal
- Author
- Ahmed Assalih
- Publisher
- Ahmed Assalih
- Publication date
- May 22, 2026
- Pages
- 378
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN (print)
- 978-9920-26-288-0
- ISBN (ebook)
- 978-9920-26-287-3
- Recommended retail price (Morocco)
- 220 MAD
- Section
- Management, Human Resources, Strategy
Pitch
The market for HR books is going through a shift that few titles have actually seized. Since the first EU AI Act obligations took effect and the new pay-transparency rules came in, HR departments are now required to justify their automated systems, quantify their AI investments, and defend their trade-offs in front of executive committees and regulators. Demand for operational decision frameworks now outstrips a publishing landscape that is still dominated by forward-looking essays — books that describe the change without ever equipping the decision-maker.
"The Death of Skills" sits squarely in that gap. Where most titles either announce a disruption or play it down, this one delivers five operational frameworks built to be applied: a grammar for reading potential, a financial metric for learning time, a doctrine for separating risk zones, an instrument for reading career trajectories, and a model for paying for acquisition speed. This is a book of method, not vision — a difference that is obvious from the table of contents and that gives it a clear position on the shelf where it will sit.
The readership is defined and has the means to buy. HR directors, CFOs, executive-committee members, transformation leaders, HR consultants, and master's students in HR or HR information systems at business schools and specialized institutes. The book sits naturally in the Management, Strategy, Human Resources, and Business Economics sections. Its three-part structure and its operational guide make it a reference title — one that gets consulted and re-consulted, not a short-lived impulse buy.
Several factors make the sale easier. The author is a recognized expert in HR information systems whose operational track record gives the argument its credibility. The book includes a 35-page operational guide of ready-to-use tools — a clear differentiator against competing theoretical essays. The self-published format opens commercial terms that can offer a higher margin than titles distributed through traditional channels. The book runs to 378 pages, ISBN 978-9920-26-288-0, with a recommended retail price of 220 MAD in Morocco, and is also available on Amazon for French-speaking and international markets.
To stock the title, place a bulk order, or arrange an in-store author event, a dedicated page is available at /en/booksellers/, or by email at [email protected]. Bulk orders and consignment terms are reviewed case by case. The author is available for in-store meetings, signings, and talks, both in bookshops and at training institutions, within Morocco and internationally.
Author meeting
Ahmed Assalih is happy to come to bookshops for sixty- to ninety-minute meetings (annotated reading, exchange with a notable witness, signing). Videoconference is available for distant territories. Fill in this form and we will reply within fifteen days.
Booksellers email: [email protected].