Print on Demand from only £595.00!

Another more and more popular way to test the market for your book.

Choose the Pen Press alternative to POD and for just £595 your book will be published and available for purchase by bookbuyers worldwide. Pay less than with other companies and get much more, not a virtual book printed on order, but 50 copies of your book for circulation, distribution and sale. Pen Press gives you:

Our fantastic Print on Demand (PoD) includes:


• Full typesetting of your manuscript
Using the text you provide on disc, 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 one of 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.

• Bar coded ready for sale
We will source a bar code that will be printed on the back of your book with the rrp.

• A reasonable retail price
Not a standard high POD retail price making a book unattractive to the buyer. With our offer, a typical 2-300 page novel will retail at a standard £7.99 to £8.99.

• 50 printed copies of your new book
3 weeks after your approval to print, you will be sent 10 copies of your book. We require a further 10 for deposit and registration, 30 will be held for retail sales.

• Ability to re-order your book at anytime -
At just 50% of the agreed retail price, allowing you to make a clear 50% profit on all of 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.

• An ISBN number - International Standard Book Number -
This will enable us to sell your book via any book store or internet site.

• Internet distribution via Amazon.co.uk and online booksellers
Your book will be available for anyone to purchase via numerous online outlets.

• Wholesale distribution via Gardners, Bertrams and Nielson Bookdata for availablity 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 ask for 10 copies from you for legal deposits and to submit to all six National libraries in the UK.

• We sell, you profit
We will hold the stock you wish us to and handle trade sales on your behalf.
Trade discounts start at 35%, so on a £8.99 book your return on a 35%
discounted sale is £5.85 which we will collect and pass to you twice yearly.


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