As many of you know, there are Websites who do what is called on-demand printing for free. You upload your files in an acceptable size and format. They collect the money for you and produce the pieces as they are ordered. They do not charge you anything. The manufacturing costs are paid by the purchaser of the book.
These services take a portion of any royalties that you set up when you upload your book, booklet, calendar, or whatever you need to get printed. We use three companies for this type of publishing & have had no problems that we know about for several years now.
Click here to see the current specifics of the suppliers we currently use.
Many of you have no time for this or you do not have the skills needed.
This produces results that are obviously non-professional, because Office cannot produce excellence in typography or page layout. Plus, Office does not support the necessities of high resolution or CMYK color.
The only thing you need to understand is that publishing a book for you involves several thousand dollars worth of work. The only way we can get any of this covers is by keeping control of the artwork until it is paid for. This means several practical things you need to be aware of.
We offer complete editorial services to help you put together your entire project. Our copy editor has 15 years of experience in book production specifically.
In addition to our book experience, one of our copy editors has nearly 40 years experience in writing copy for marketing and advertising.
Our primary expertise is in typography. Our publisher's primary background before beginning this adventure was typography, font design, & page layout. He has 40 years experience in helping clients communicate clearly with their readers.
Our staff has decades of experience in graphic design, logo development, and all aspects of graphic production for print and Web.
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