Book Publishing Service - An Alternative To Traditional Publishers?

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Book publishing services are services outside of the major book publishing corporations that allow amateur authors and beginning authors, or lesser known authors to get their books published.  These services act as mini publishers and help the author with a large portion of the publishing process, including the intellectual property rights negotiations, distribution, book production, editing processes, as well as other developmental processes.  Often times these services charge much less than what a major published would charge, and they are much more accessible.  An author does not normally require an agent or other representative to use a book publishing service.  They are accessible to just about every author who would like to self publish. 

Book publishing services either charge a low flat fee, anywhere from 300 to 5000 dollars, or charge a percentage of book sales made.  There are a number of websites that allow authors to publish their books.  The publishing service may specialize in just one aspect of the publishing process.  For instance, cafepress.com specializes in book production, or the actual physical production of the book.  They offer prices that are very reasonable for an amateur author who does not have thousands of dollars to throw away on massive publishing productions. 

Other publishing services specialize in marketing the book.  These services will help the author design a web site for the book, market the web site, set up a book review campaign, set up radio show meetings, announce the book to the public, create commercials for the book, design press releases for the book, as well as submit the book to various media sources.  These publishing services are specialists in marketing the book.  Again the cost of these services although not cheap, is not totally out of the line for an amateur author.  These services might also agree to a royalty percentage if the book has high promise based on some previous sales data. 

Publishing services should be used by authors who can not find a major company to take their book, or authors who want to self publish but not do everything completely by themselves.  Publishing a book is a length and drawn out process that requires a lot of manpower, and publishing services help the smaller author accomplish this great feat with less cash.