Bottom Line, Inc. (formerly Boardroom, Inc.) is an American publisher of books, newsletters and Web articles that provide advice from experts on a wide variety of topics, predominantly health, health care, investing and personal finance but also food and nutrition, taxes and legal matters, career, privacy and security, home improvement, small business, travel, entertainment, automobiles, technology, personal and family relationships and other topics.
Besides its online content and books, the Stamford, Connecticut-based[1] company publishes the following newsletters in print: Bottom Line Personal has approximately 300,000 subscribers at a typical promotional rate of $39 per year.
Bottom Line is one of a dwindling number of publishers maintaining fact-checkers on its staff to check the accuracy of content.
[6][7] An aspect of Bottom Line's book marketing has caused contention: the industry practice known as negative option billing.
Bottom Line Books have received approximately 75 billing complaints arbitrated by the Stamford, Connecticut Better Business Bureau.