Book Publishing Service – An Alternative To
Traditional Publishers?
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.