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Package Costs
As one of the established leaders in publishing solutions for the new author, we are proud to offer tailor-made options across a range of budgets. We realise that today the author has a wide choice of companies and routes to publication, and therefore we are pleased to compete effectively on all levels, providing superior quality and more value for money than standard offers on the market - making us heads above the rest!
5-10 book deal from £49.95
5 copies for only £49.95 – it doesn’t have to break the bank to see your work in print!
Normally, printing your own work costs hundreds of pounds, but with our fantastic offer we can turn your manuscript into five beautifully bound paperback copies for only £49.95. If you're a budding author, who has perhaps written a bestseller and would like to see your work in print, your dream could come true.
Many people think they have a book in them waiting to be written and today we are giving you the chance to see your work in print. And more! For an extra £99 you can also get a full colour, exclusive cover design made from your photos and images, or we can select one from our extensive image bank. See our Art Department for more.
These books make great gifts for any occasion, surprise a loved one with a gift certificate to get their own book printed or make Christmas and birthday presents simple with your own work!
Click here for instructions and submission form (PDF)
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| 5 copies (£49.95) |
Plus p&p £10.00 |
£59.95 |
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10 copies (£95.95) |
Plus p&p £10.00 |
£105.95 |
Please allow for a minimum of 28 days delivery.
Please note that this offer doesn't include editing, typesetting or ISBN registration. Books will be printed as supplied with card cover and stock illustration, with the author name and book title printed on the front. Please see the submission forms for instructions.
Private Limited Editions
Ideal for authors who wish to produce a limited number of books for their own sales, or for copies for family and friends. Quoted according to the services required, length of a manuscript and numbers of copies. We can offer editing, typesetting, cover design and proof reading as individual cost-effective services. And you'll find our print prices are hard to beat!
Contact us for more>>
eBook for Kindle from £299
This NEW eBook-only package includes a professional cover design, typesetting into book format, conversion of files and ISBN. Enjoy all the production processes of our BRONZE package for a fraction of the price. Your book will be available on Amazon kindle stores worldwide.
Already have a typeset book and cover files? Then let us know! We will be happy to reduce the price of this package to as little as £99 (depending on length of the book).
Contact us for more details and for a tailor-made quote
Print on Demand (Bronze and Silver)
BRONZE from £695
Our fantastic Print on Demand Bronze option includes:
• Full typesetting of your manuscript
Using the text you provide in digital format, professional typesetters will lay out your book and send a proof to you for approval.
• Bespoke full-colour cover design
We can design you a unique cover. We have a full picture library to design from, with royalty-free images we can use without any further cost, or you can design your own cover by sending us your own images and we will add text over the image and make up print-ready files. Choose gloss or matt laminate finish.
• A full proof copy of your book sent or e-mailed to you prior to final printing
Once we have finished typesetting your book and designing your cover, we will post or email you a proof of your book for approval prior to going to print.
• An ISBN Bar-code ready for sale
Essential for sale in retail and online.
• A reasonable retail price
Not a standard high POD retail price making a book unattractive to the buyer. With our offer, a typical 200-300 page novel will retail at a standard £7.99-£8.99.
• 50 printed copies of your new book
3 weeks after your approval to print, you will be sent 20 copies of your book. We require a further 10 for deposit and registration, 20 will be held for retail sales.
• Benefits of our established trade network
Your book will be available through all the usual POD outlets online, but with our POD options we keep a physical stock that can be ordered through our long standing wholesale and retail channels in many cases 24 hours after receiving the order!
• Ability to re-order your book at any time
At a pre-agreed price according to the final page extent of your book, at a minimum of 50% of the retail price, allowing you to make a clear 50% profit through your own sales. Once the initial 50 copies are depleted, you can also order stock in batches of 25 for us to hold for trade sales on your behalf.
• Internet distribution via Amazon.co.uk and online booksellers
Your book will be available for anyone to purchase via numerous online outlets including play.com, tesco.com and waterstones.com.
• Wholesale distribution via Gardners, Bertrams and Nielson Bookdata for availability throughout the UK. Your book will be available for distribution via these companies for maximum UK coverage, allowing bookshops nationwide to order.
• Placed on legal deposit with UK National Libraries
We send 10 copies on your behalf for legal deposits in all six National Libraries in the UK.
• We sell, you profit
For a 15% handling commission we will hold the stock you wish us to and deal with trade sales on your behalf. Retail discounts start at 35%, so for example - on an £8.99 book your return on a 35% discounted sale is £5.85 which we will collect and pass to you twice yearly, minus commission.
Silver from £1,295
Upgrade from an extra £600 for all of the benefits of the above first level entry package.
PLUS a full copy edit, back cover blurb writing, an additional 50 copies and a press release to kick-start marketing.
Send us your manuscript with a covering letter with your requirements and
we will produce a quote for you. Inclusion of photos, illustrations, hardback binding and more are available.
Click here for details on how to submit>>
NEW! ebook for Kindle upgrade on Bronze and Silver packages for just £99
We will convert your Bronze or Silver package files, issue a new ISBN for the eBook edition, and get your book up and running on the US, UK and European Amazon Kindle stores in days. Choose your own eBook price and royalty return. We will set you up with your own Kindle account, or for a 15% share of return, we will manage your sales, update prices and change info from time to time, convert your $ check remittances and pay in sterling together with the royalties from your paperback books.
Gold Partnership Package from £1,950
It is obviously very difficult to quote definitive figures without seeing the manuscript. Every book is different, and varying amounts of work will always be required.
The final quote will depend on several factors, i.e. the size of the original manuscript, the amount of editing (and/or typing) required, whether it is supplied digitally or not, if there are illustrations or photographs inside the book, the print & production spec of the book and the size of first print run that the author chooses.
To assess this, we offer a Reader’s Report service which is designed to provide authors with an independent critique of their work as well as guide us on quoting you accurately.
But in order to provide a guideline, we have set out below specification which would cost £1,950 for the complete full publishing package:
- Royalties of an initial 45% of sales return to the author
- Paperback book B format (198mm x 129mm)
- Up to 80 page novella or children’s story
- Standard copy-editing, typesetting and proofing services
- Cover design in 4-colour (CMYK)
- Jacket text (blurb)
- Print and bind first run bar-coded ready for retail sale*
- ISBN and all legal registrations and deposits including copies to the British Library, and national libraries of Scotland, Wales and university libraries of Cambridge, Oxford and Dublin
- Stock to wholesalers including Gardners, Britain’s leading book wholesaler
- Listed with and available for sale via leading booksellers ie. Amazon.co.uk, Tesco.com, Waterstones, WHSmiths.
- Invitation to a one-on-one meeting with the marketing manager
- Creation and distribution of press release or review copies
- Follow-up on press releases and review copies issued, as well as any local media coverage
- Approaching local bookshops to stock
- Approaching local venues for signing sessions
- Ongoing support, sales, invoicing, accounting, royalty calculation
- Reprints and storage
*We recommend no more than 300 copies on a first run as we hope to achieve endorsements and reviews to incorporate on the book cover on subsequent runs, which can really help with ongoing promotional work.
Find out more about our marketing department here>>
Platinum VIP Upgrade from £900 extra
For a top-notch, fast-track service: one-to-one meetings at every stage of editing, design, production and marketing: a personal publishing contact to answer questions at each step and keep you abreast of developments throughout the process; plus immediate on-demand US printing and publication via Lightning Source, with availability via Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com etc, plus eBook conversion for sale via Kindle US, UK and European stores.
Conventional Publishing
Success with numerous titles and recognition within the book publishing industry, has led to us being able to offer traditional publication for some titles, where we fund all costs. See our sister website www.indepenpress.co.uk for more details.
HOW IT WORKS:
From Manuscript to Launch
Reader's Reports Pen Press make a small charge of £35 per 30,000 words or part thereof, refundable on contract for Gold and Platinum customers, to provide authors with an honest, independent and thorough critique of the manuscript. Our reports summarise the key themes in the book, pulling out the positive aspects and making recommendations on possible improvement areas. The manuscript is assessed on overall content, quality of writing and market potential in our view; and will suggest which service level may best suit your needs. This service allows us to assess the manuscript for the Gold and Platinum partnership packages, but it is also available as an option for those interested in our Print On Demand options, or even those who aren’t sure which one to choose.
Production & Editing We have an independent team of editors who work under contract to us. The degree of editorial input required will vary from manuscript to manuscript, and charges are made accordingly within our package. Editing is at the approval of the author, and we may go through several stages to get a product we are satisfied with. Our in-house production and design staff will work closely with you to typeset and layout your book and our designer will create a jacket design for your comment and approval. See our Art Department page for more details on the cover design service.
All stages are proofed to you for approval and we ask you to take your time to go through the text word for word, marking up any comments and changes before returning it to us. We make the changes and return it to you for final sign off before going to print, with one of our selected printers.
Registrations As per national legal requirement, your book is registered with and copies sent (where necessary) to The British Library, The National Libraries of Wales & Scotland, Oxford & Cambridge University Libraries, Trinity College Library (Dublin), NeilsenBookData (who supply information to the majority of the book trade).
We then commence our Launch Phase and our section on marketing will explain how we can go on to promote and market your book in association with our various distributor and rights partners for Gold and Platinum Partnership Package authors.
Wholesaling & Distribution Pen Press distribute through Gardners, one of Britain’s largest book distributors. We have accounts with all the major booksellers and are experiencing increasing measures of success getting books into bookshops. Authors should be aware that out of 200,000 new titles published every year in the UK alone, large chain bookstores may choose to stock only 200 of these. Increasingly books are bought online and all Pen Press titles will appear on major UK bookselling websites such as Amazon, Tesco.com.
We also look ‘outside of the box’ for sales opportunities via magazines, clubs, and organisations. Our association with Virgin Atlantic is an example of this.
Library distribution We have established accounts with major library suppliers and advise them of the publication of your book. Additionally, Gardners also promote to the library suppliers and hold accounts with all of them. Specific approaches to local libraries can be made upon request, and we always recommend authors include the local library authority details on their Marketing Contacts Schedule.
Publication date We recommend a Publication Date which is at least 3 months after receipt of review copies. This is because it can take booksellers 7-12 weeks to update their databases and consider your book for stock on the day of launch; also, book reviewers for magazines, newspapers, radio and TV need a 12 week lead-time to consider a book for review. Therefore, whilst you have copies of the book to give to friends and family, the official launch or publication date is set to accommodate the needs of the media and booksellers.
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