Do
I relinquish any rights if you produce my book for me?
Print
On
Demand is a service where small quantities of books are printed as they are needed. When a consumer orders a single copy from a bookshop or online bookseller like Amazon a single copy is printed to fufil that order.
Book
Plan
is our bespoke service and we can offer you more production choices
than
Print
On
Demand.
How
will I get paid if I chose Print On Demand?
You receive the profit after deducting the costs of
production and
the discount you give to distributors. The discount to distributors will usually be 30%.
Do
you supply hardback (case bound) books and paperback (limp bound)
books?
Yes. All our
books are produced with a colour cover and there is no cost saving
if you don't have a colour cover unless you are having a hardback
book
without a dust jacket.
Yes. If your project is a commercial venture we recommend you do some research to find out the typical selling price of books like yours. This is because books containing pages in colour need to be produced in bigger quantities than black and white books in order to make the cost per book competitive for you.
The cost of preparing sample pages is included in our price.
If you ask us to prepare sample pages
before submitting an
order we will charge a design fee to prepare a sample spread. This
must be prepaid but if you proceed to place an order with us you can use
this as the first payment for your order.
Yes. We'll show you how to get your own ISBN.
I'd
like to find out more and talk to someone without obligation.
You can email or phone (and
talk to a real person straight away!) or you can arrange to visit
us. Our service is personal and we are always pleased to meet our
customers.
We require £150 with order and the balance
immediately prior to printing.
Subject to a few exceptions VAT is not charged on books i.e. they are zero rated for VAT purposes. The exceptions include, among others, address books, diaries and notebooks. Please ask us if you are concerned your book may be liable to standard rate VAT.
You own the books and you retain your copyright and publishing rights.
Editing is important because unedited books are quickly identified by bookshops, reviewers and readers as books which have which not been published by professionals.
A print-ready file is an Acrobat PDF file with all the printer fonts embedded and ready to be printed without any manual intervention. Images and text will be in place exactly as they are to be printed as no manipulation of the content of the file can take place.
The inside pages of the book must be contained in a single file.
The cover will also need to be a single file to qualify as a print-ready file and will therefore include the back cover and spine. If you are preparing your own cover file we will tell you what the spine thickness should be. This varies depending on the printing method and paper you have selected.
If you would prefer us to assemble the cover from your components or if you have several files which make up the main text we can sometimes join them together but please talk with us about this as there are proofing issues which arise.
We can sometimes resize PDF files, so if for example you have A4 PDF files but you want your book to be printed 246x171mm give us a call.
