Typesetting and cover design for printbook £570

You can chose just one or all of the services listed below.

This is a service set up by a writer to help other writers, to enable them to self-publish, or to be published by us.

You can either use our services to help you self-publish, or you can opt to be published  by us in the Authors Library Press imprint.

You get 100% of all the proceeds from the sale of your book until you break even, this would normally be around the first 150 books sold. After that we get a 15% royalty.

If you use our self publishing service only, you keep  all  the proceeds, of course

In either case, you own the copyright and can republish at any time.

We provide self-publishing services to help authors self-publish their books; that can be typesetting, cover design, ebook creation, or editorial work, or proof-reading.

We have set our prices as low as possible. You will notice they are significantly lower than most other self-publishing services providers.

Our prices are just enough to enable us to operate, low enough to enable writers to afford to publish successive books and develop their careers as writers.

Our own experience comes from 30 years of being published by major publishers both here and abroad, and also by years of self-publishing and the attendant advantages and difficulties.

Even for professional writers, publishing your work yourself is a serious alternative as never before.

 As publishers are no longer to be relied upon to publish even their existing  authors' work, the best and most serious work is sometimes unable to find its way through the commercial demands of agents and publishers.

If you publish as an Authors Library Press book we will organise disribution through a wholesler, Gardners.

We will also list your book on Amazon.

So, if you do literally nothing else to promote or distribute your book, it will be available for sale online through us.

We will notify you of each order which you then fulfil yourself.

To choose any of the options below, simply phone or send an email;

01304 449 413

info@authorslibrarypress.com

or you can submit your book to us below where it says "upload your documents here."

Please note

If you are self-publishing your book, we provide the files ready to go to the printer. You will chose and pay for your own printer. We can liase with your printer if you want us to, we can send the files to them for them to print. We can also recommend printers. We have two printers we use ourselves.

If you opt to be published by Authors Library Press, you will have our imprint logo on your book. It costs £100 more and includes the provision of an ISBN and registering it with Neilsen, and distribution through Gardners wholesalers. This is essential for people to be able to order your book.

You may opt not to have our imprint name and logo on your book. Please note,you will then have to provide your own ISBN, which  you purchase directly form Neilsen and they cost around £100 if bought individually.

Submissions; Upload your files here

Option one

Typesetting only

80,000 words (if your book is longer add £4 for every 1000 words)

Total £490

Option two

Typesetting and cover design for printbook

80,000 words (if your book is longer add £4 for every 1000 words)

£490

Cover design and its preparation for the printer £80

Total £570

Option three

Typesetting, cover design for printbook,  and ebook

80,000 words (if your book is longer add £4 for every 1000 words)

Total £670

Option four

 ebook only

Typesetting and cover design

80,000 words (if your book is longer add £4 for every 1000 words)

£400

Cover design  £40

Total £440

Remember - you can phone us to talk about your order before payment if you wish; 01304 617449, or 01304 449413

How long does it take?-

Under four weeks.

We have a very fast turnover time. This is because it is all in-house, except the printing, and we work hard and we work fast.

It depends somewhat on the condition of the manuscript you give us, but generally we aim to have the book delivered to your door within four weeks.

How does that break down?

You send your book to us, already proof-read and ready for typesetting. We typeset it within a few days and send it to you to check. If there are some minor corrections we do those and send it back to you again for final approval. During this time we have designed the cover, which we send to you for approval. Again, after any changes you request, we send it to you for final approval and then thats it, we send it to the printers. They take 14 days to deliver it to you.

Possible delays to this process are if your script isn't properly ready for typesetting and requires corrections and adjustments. You are strongly recommended to ensure that it is ready.

If we have to do major corrections that takes a few days more.

Printing costs

Naturally  we can't give one standard price as it depends on the number of copies and the number of pages, and on whether there are colour pictures inside. Self-publishing and subsidy publishing companies are often cagey about this aspect, some even try to give the impression that the prices they give you for your book includes printing when it doesn't, and then whack you with the printing costs when your book has already been typeset.

So here are some example printing prices so you can have them in mind. The cost per book gets somewhat cheaper as you print more copies.

30 copies, 256 pages, £125

50 copies 256 pages  £192

30 copies 352 pages  £162

50 copies 352 pages  £251

100 copies 250 pages £363

100 copies 352 pages £450

As a rough guide, a book of 80,000 words will make 250 pages in a standard A5 book. Don't worry there are no sudden jumps in price with how many words you have, it's incremental.

Distribution-

This is handled through Gardners, the largest UK book distributor.

How does it work?

The books are delivered to you. We register the book with Gardners. They see that the book is offered to the main bookshops and outlets, Waterstones, Blackwells, W.H. Smiths, etc. When they receive an order they tell us, we tell you, and you send it to them, or directly to the customer.

Gardners pay you 60% of the cover price.

You get 100% of the proceeds from that sale, until you break even. After that we get 15%.

If you have opted not to be published by Authors Library Press but to only buy our self-publishing services, such as typesetting and cover design, then the distribution is done by you, and we don't get any share of the proceeds. You would have to supply your own ISBN.

If you self-publish but want us to help with Gardners, we do have that service at a small fee to cover our time (it can be a bit time-consuming). It's generally best to opt to be published by us, as then we do everything.

We will list your book on Amazon.

Other services

Help and advice is free.

For general help and advice for writers, OR to  find out about which service is right for your requirements is free. Please phone 01304 617449, or 01304 449 413, or drop us an email at gregorymotton@yahoo.co.uk