Publish Your Own
Paperback Bound Book


  Did you write a manuscript and want to see it in print?

  Do you have written treasures you want to preserve as a book?

  Do you have office documentation that you want to convert to a professionally bound book for your business?

We will create a Perfect-Bound 6" x 9" or 6.6" x 10.3" Paperback book from your manuscript at a low cost. Then you can buy your book in any quantity.

Let us do the work for you. We will prepare, format and publish your manuscript as a quality Perfect-Bound 6" x 9" or 6.6" x 10.3" Paperback Book, for you to buy in any quantity.


What You Get

We provide complete service to publish your manuscript. This service includes formatting your manuscript into a print-ready PDF file. Cover Creation (front and back) using art you may optionally provide. If you do not have cover art, we will design a good looking color cover for you at our option.

What's The Cost?

We will publish your book at a reasonable cost to you for the labor! Expect around $300 for cover design and up to 150 pages. Additional pages may increase the cost. You may then buy a single copy or as many as you like, at any time, for resale at a profit for yourself, or to use for distribution in your organization.

The per copy price to order your completed book(s) is based on the following formula...

There is a $10.00 fixed charge for the color cover, binding and print processing. Add to that 9¢ per page (minimum 40 pages).

Examples: A 50 page 6x9 bound paperback with a color cover is $14.50. A 120 page 6x9 bound paperback with a color cover is $20.80. A 300 page 6.6" x 10.3" bound paperback with a color cover is $37.00.

Please read carefully what we are providing and what you need to provide to us, and the "Terms & Conditions" below...

What You Provide

You need to send us your manuscript as a MS Word Document or a plain text file. You can also send us artwork for your front and rear covers, but this is optional. We will design a good looking color cover for you. We will use your artwork if provided. Cover artwork needs to be provided as JPG, GIF or PNG files.

Your manuscript must be spell checked and proofread. What you send us is considered approved by you and we are not responsible for grammatical errors or spelling errors that are in your document. We simply will use your text exactly as you provide it to us. We simply will reformat it for proper page placement throughout the book.

What You Get

We will prepare, format and publish your manuscript as follows:
  • 6"x9" Paperback or Hardcovered Book
  • Professional, store quality perfect-bound
  • Page text font will be Times New Roman 12 pt.
  • Main title and Chapter title fonts will be Arial 18pt.
  • Auto-generated Table of Contents if applicable.
  • Attractive full-color cover
  • Black and white interior text.
  • Size and number of pages based on manuscript size

Generally one double-spaced 8.5" by 11" manuscript page becomes about 1.5 to 2 pages in a final 6x9 paperback book with one-inch margins and 12 pt font size in Times New Roman.

We will complete your book within 30 days after you send us all supporting material. We will assume that once you send us your manuscript, it is your final copy. If you want to revise it, you will need to pay for extra time unless we did not start the work yet. So only send us your manuscript when you know it is ready for publishing.

We will do our best to create a good looking color cover for your book. We will send you a jpg image copy by email for your approval. But at this cost, please understand that we will not be able to meet all your demands. We simply will offer our best efforts in designing a nice cover. You may, at your option, provide a ready-to-use front and back image or images to incorporate into the final cover design. See "Cover Art" note below.

After we complete your book, it will be published and available for purchase on-line any time you choose. We will give you a web link direct to a secure order page on our publisher's site. You can order direct via the link we give you or send other people to that web page. But if others order direct, you will not make money from it. You may order any quantity yourself for resale if you choose. Those orders cover printing and publishing costs. Remember, this service is for creating the published book, not for printing. You pay for the books you order as noted above under "What's The Cost".

Cover Art

We will do our best to create a good looking color cover for your book. But if you want to provide a ready-to-use file for the front and/or rear covers, you will need to create it in the proper format as follows...
  • Must be JPG, GIF or PNG.
  • Must be 300 dpi.
  • Size must be .25" larger for bleed. 1875x2775 pixels for a 6x9 book or 2025x3150 pixels for a 6.6" x 10.3" book.
  • If you just supply images for us to include on the cover, we will resize as necessary.
  • May be color or black and white.
  • We will make the spine match the color you use for an even flow.

Types of Covers

There are three options for the cover of your book. Paperback, Casewrap, and Jacket Cover.

Paperback is soft covered. Casewrap has the cover image printed right on the hard cover. Jacket Cover has a separate paper cover around the hard-covered book. Cover art is printed on the jacket. The jacket has flaps that wrap inside the front and rear covers. Short text info can be printed on the front and rear flaps.

Copyright

We will only accept works that are your own creation. Must be your own, original book. You must state that you own all copyright to any material provided for publication.

You will continue to own the copyright to your book. We will include the standard copyright page in the front of the book (opposite the title page) with your name as you specify.

ISBN Numbers

If you later decide to have your book listed with on-line booksellers such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Borders, you can have a Global ISBN number assigned. This is totally optional. The ISBN is assigned by the U.S. ISBN Agency so your book is listed in Bowkers Books-in-Print, and a bar code for your ISBN number will be included on the rear cover. For $800, we will open an account under your name with our publisher so you get the royalties on bookstore retail sales paid direct to you from our publisher. We will resubmit the book information under your account, apply for an ISBN number and list the book at a retail price you choose. At that point, you are free to go to any other publisher at any time.

This price covers our publisher's charge for ISBN assignment and our charge for this service. And we will no longer get anything after this transition. All royalties will go to you. Where else can you find this service for $800. And remember, this charge is only if you want your book to be listed by national booksellers. You can decide to do this at any time in the future.

What is NOT included

This service does not include assignment of an ISBN number nor listing in Bowkers Books in Print. See "ISBN Numbers" below for more info on this optional, additional service.

This service does not include any printed books. If you want any printed books after we complete our work, you will need to order them direct from our publisher. Your completed book may be purchased direct from our publisher over and over again in any quantity.

It will be up to you to purchase and market your books.

You will have the right to purchase as many books as you want, at any time and in any quantity. Then you can sell your books at any price you want and make a profit, give them as gifts, or use as you wish. If you do not purchase any at all for six months, our publisher reserves the right to remove your book from availability.

Our Guarantee

Once we schedule your book and you provide all supporting material to us, we guarantee your book will be published and available within 30 to 90 days for purchase from our publisher's web site, depending on how much work you give us to complete.

Terms & Conditions

This offer is for publishing service only. We provide the service of publishing your book from your manuscript and cover art you may optionally provide.

PUBLISHER'S RETURN POLICY: Because of the production expense of print on demand manufacturing, our publisher cannot cancel orders, accept returns or provide refunds on books once you place your order for printed copies. Therefore we suggest you buy only one copy the first time after we complete the publishing of your book so that you can review and know you are happy with it. We will be glad to make one-time changes to correct anything you don't like. But the cost of proof copies remains yours. We are giving you a tremendous service. So the least we can ask is that you pay for any proof or final copies you may decide to purchase afterwards.

Prices and terms for publishing are suject to change.

We will accept all requests on a first come, first serve, basis, as our schedule allows. Please allow two to three weeks for actual printing after final completion of our work.

We reserve the right to deny service to use content we find inappropriate.

How To Get Started

Start by contacting us to discuss the type of publishing you need done. You may call us at 631-232-2228 ext 10 and we will go over any questions you have. Or feel free to email us with your questions. Click on the "Email Us" link below. If you wish, send your manuscript or documentation attached to your email so we have something to review when we speak.


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