Standard Book Publishing Plan

With our Standard Book Publishing Plan, we provide everything you need to get your book published with excellence.

The following gives you an overview of the Standard Book Publishing Plan. The exact services offered and pricing may change from time to time. For more information about the exact services offered, refer to the Book Publishing Services Agreement.

Editing and Design

• Manuscript Review
  After receiving your manuscript, we will assess its content for publishing merit. We choose not to facilitate the publishing of just anything, and have found that authors (and book buyers and reviewers) value this.

• Copyediting
  We will copyedit your manuscript. Your book deserves credibility. The edited text will be reviewed and approved by you before we proceed.

• Editing Revisions
  We will provide one round of copyediting revisions at your request.

• Custom Full-Color Cover Design
  We will design an attractive, custom full-color cover for your book using either photos and/or artwork provided by you (digital or hardcopy) or using photos and/or artwork we will obtain or create ourselves, whichever you request, and using any instructions of preferences you provide to us to the best of our ability. The cover design will be reviewed and approved by you before we proceed.

• Custom Black & White Interior Design
  Rather than format your book with generic templates, we will custom design the interior of your book using any instructions or preferences you provide to us to the best of our ability. The interior design will be reviewed and approved by you before we proceed.

• Editing and Formatting of Interior Art or Photos
  We will scan, edit, touch up and/or place up to 10 photos or artwork provided by you (digital or hardcopy) in the interior of your book. Photos and artwork you wish to provide must meet our art submission criteria, found in our Book Publishing Services Submission Guidelines.

• Author Photo and Biography
  We will include your photo and biography provided by you in your book at your request

• Electronic Pre-Press Proofing
  We will provide an electronic PDF proof of your formatted book's cover and interior to review and approve prior to sending your book to the printer. If you are unable to receive a PDF proof, we will provide you an unbound hard copy proof instead at your request.

• Cover Design Revisions
  We will provide one round of revisions to the cover design at your request.

• Interior Design Revisions
  We will provide one round of revisions to the interior design at your request.

Printing and Registration

• Hardback or Paperback Format for your Book
  We will produce your book in either hardback or paperback format, whichever you choose, and your choice of several trim sizes.

• Formatting of your Book for Printing
  We will configure your book for printing.

• Book Printing
  We will arrange the printing of your book using print-on-demand technology. Utilizing print-on-demand technology means you do not have to pay for or inventory a large number of books since books are printed and manufactured as they are ordered.

• Production (Hardcopy) Proof
  We will send you a hardcopy proof of your book in final printed and bound form. The production proof will be reviewed and approved by you before we proceed.

• Printing Revisions
  We will provide one round of revisions to your book once the production proof has been generated at your request. Your book will be released once all necessary revisions have been made to your book.

• Ebook Format
  We will produce your book in ebook format at your request .

• U.S. Copyright Registration
  We will register the copyright for your book in your name with the U.S. Copyright Office on your behalf. The original certificate of copyright registration will be mailed to you once the registration is complete.

Marketing, Distribution, and Sales

• Books-In-Print Listing
  We will list your book with R.R. Bowker's Books-In-Print Listing.

• ISBN Assignment
  We will assign and register an ISBN for your book.

• ISBN Barcode printed on the cover
  We will print your book's ISBN on the back cover.

• Library of Congress cataloging and registration
  We will register your book with the U.S. Library of Congress for cataloging.

• Internet Marketing on Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com
  We will register your book with Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com (BN.com) and their affiliates upon the release of your book.

• Copies of Your Book
  We will send you 10 copies of your book immediately upon the release of your book.

• Author Discount and Author Order Fulfillment
  You can purchase any number of copies of your book at any time at the special discount available to you as the author, equal to the suggested retail price of the book minus the print cost and a small commission of 16% of the suggested retail price. We guarantee that your discount will always be at least 50% of the suggested retail price of your book. We will fulfill the orders you place for your book following its release and deliver the books directly to you, which you can then resell and distribute for a profit. For a book retailing at a minimum of $13.99, you would only pay about $7.00 per copy.

• National and Worldwide Distribution and Order Fulfillment to Book Wholesalers
  We will register your book with and fulfill all orders of your book from book wholesaler Ingram or Baker and Taylor (dependent upon the size and type of your book). Through these channels your book will be available for bookstores, consumers and other retailers to order.

• Industry Standard Returns Policy
  We will accept and provide a refund for returned copies of your book.

• CD ROM of Your Book Files
  We will provide you with a CD ROM containing high-resolution production files of your book (PDF) and cover images for your own personal use in marketing, publicity and future printing upon the release of your book. These files are licensed to you for this use.

• Compensation for Book Sales
  We will compensate you the net revenue of your book sales through our distribution channels (after printing costs), less a small commission of 40% of the net revenue from the book. Therefore, you will receive 60% of all net revenue from your book, which for a 250-page 6" x 9" paperback sold at its minimum suggested retail price ($13.99) would be about $1.71 per book. This is approximately 12% of the retail price of this particular book. To compare, we would only be keeping $1.14 for our commission. We feel that this practice is fairer to you as the self-publishing author than for us to pay you a small royalty and keep the remainder of the revenue for our profit.

  We will send you an account statement each quarter stating the total sales of your book that have made through our distribution channels and the corresponding compensation due to you. Any compensation will be enclosed with the statement in the form of a check. We will report book sales to you after they are reported to us by our distributors.

• Book Retail and Wholesale Pricing
  You will be able to set the suggested retail price of your book based on the minimum retail price we determine based on the size, type and post-production page count of your book. The suggested retail price you set can be equal to or greater than the minimum retail price we determine for your book. We will work with you to determine the target price for your particular book.

The Standard Self-Publishing Plan including everything listed above is $1,845 (subject to change). There is a payment plan available (see the Book Publishing Services Agreement for details).

Like what you see?
Read our Book Publishing Submission Guidelines to find out how to get started!

See something in our Standard Self-Publishing Plan you don’t want?
We can customize this plan for you. Just let us know which options you would not prefer having (if you already have a professional editor or wish to do your own typesetting, for example) and we will deduct the appropriate amount from the cost of the plan. Please keep in mind that the high standards we hold to also affect the quality of our books. If a poorly edited book is submitted and you choose not to include the copyediting services for example, our screeners may not approve it.

For more details regarding the terms of our services, refer to the Book Publishing Services Agreement.