Commercial Publishing Package

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Publishing Side

  • 100% copyright ownership
  • All high resolution files. (You can’t print books without these; low resolution files do not print.)
  • Standard front and back cover. (Designed by our designers, we do not use templates)
  • Printed book. (International standard book number, accepted worldwide)
  • (Can’t sell to shops online or offline without a barcode)
  • Layout Editing. (Typesetting, layout of the actual book 229mm x 152mm)
  • Book comes as a printed version
  • Book comes as two eBook versions ePub2 and PDF)
  • One on one author support. (We help you with design, pricing of the book, marketing promotional information, and handling book sales. Advice on the publishing process if needed)
  • Registration with the National Library of Australia. (NLA). (Mandatory to comply with the Legal Deposit laws of Australia)
  • Registered with NLA Prepublication Data Service (PDS) (copyright proof)
  • Registered with Libraries Australia (Libraries and suppliers can find your book)
  • Coloured cover, B/White pages, up to 229 x 152mm size, perfect bound. Up to 300 pages. (Extra pages: .25c per page after 300 pages). Colour books available at an extra cost, other book sizes available at extra cost
  • One book Printed for Legal Deposit with NLA.
  • 10 books to author sent directly from the printer
  • We email you 7 draft copies of the book to check and make any changes needed
  • Then $25 a set of changes afterwards*
  • Three book cover changes included
  • Extra books supplied at cost plus $1 a book admin charge, starting at 10 copies and up.

Note: This is to check the book for mistakes and make small changes, not to make large rewrites to the manuscript, for a rewrite there is a $180 charge per major change, a major rewrite of the M/script is $350.

Promotional Side

  • Listed on NLA Trove system. (Goes to all libraries and schools, promoting that a new book is in production, your book synopsis is available for shops etc. to read)
  • Promotion of the book to 25 000 bookstores worldwide using Global books in print. (Your book is promoted by Thorpe Bowker System to every bookshop worldwide that takes their news release feed)
  • Nielsen’s book database for all Australian bookshops, UK and others (This is how bookshops here and overseas can find your book, if they take their feed, most do)
  • Also, we promote and sell your book on our bookshop site, and you get paid 70% net royalty from every sale
  • Your book gets its own sales page on our bookshop platform. (See inspiringbookshop.com )
  • Listed with Google Play print book sales
  • Listed with Fishpond print book sales
  • Listed with iSubscribe print book sales
  • Listed on eBay print book sales
  • Listed with Angus and Robertson online
  • Listed with Alibris.com USA sales, or similar
  • Listed on Amazon eBooks KDP
  • Listed with Wheelers eLibrary system AU and NZ.

Special marketing pack which includes

  • How to promote your book after publishing booklet
  • A report on how important Metadata is. (Metadata means, detailed information about your book, keywords for Internet search engines, Google, Bing, also Amazon book sales)
  • Article on the importance of good covers
  • How to use social media articles, plus much more.

Commercial Publishing Package: Total cost $2995

Please note that the packages on our website are only a guide, as each authors book may be a different size and the page count may vary.

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Distribution Package: includes distribution to –

North America
With our partner IngramSpark, book titles are automatically made available to tens of thousands of retailers, libraries, schools, internet commerce companies, and other channel partners, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Chapters/Indigo (Canada), and other well-known book retailers and wholesalers across North America.

United Kingdom | Europe
Adlibris, Agapea, Amazon.co.uk, Aphrohead, Bertrams, Blackwell, Book Depository Ltd, Books Express •Coutts Information Services Ltd, Designarta Books, Eden Interactive Ltd, Foyles, Gardners, Trust Media Distribution (formerly STL), Mallory International, Paperback Shop Ltd, Superbookdeals, The Book Community Ltd, Waterstones, Wrap.

Australia & New Zealand

Booktopia, Fishpond, The Nile, James Bennett, ALS, Peter Pal, University Co-operative Bookshop. Note you need eBooks for some of these sales outlets.

Total Distribution Extras Cost: $220.00

International Book Fairs additional marketing*

Intensive promotion of your book at International Book Fairs. Your book will be displayed on the Australia Unlimited stand in conjunction with the Australian Publishers Association and International Publishers Association. Not only will your book be on the stand, but we make appointments with literary agents and publishers for selling international rights to your book. We attend Frankfurt Bookfair and the Beijing Bookfair. (This is where the big traditional publishers are).

Special Discount Applies*

*Due to COVID-19, International book fairs have been suspended. We hope to be attending again soon.

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