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Costs
The costs you will
be asked to provide will depend upon several factors: the size of your
manuscript, amount of editing required, whether or not you present it
on disk, type of cover design, number/type of illustrations and/or photographs
you want to include, size of first print run if requirements exceed our
typical quantities, binding, as well as the extent of the promotion.
Author
royalties from sale monies we receive are 35%. This is significantly
more than trade publishers' standard 7-10%, though naturally less than
if you were to go it alone, in which case you would take 100% of sales.
Of course you would then also have to meet the cost of distribution, storage
and admin. in handling all sales aspects yourself, as well as continuing
to pay for reprints.
As you will appreciate, it is impossible to give precise quotes due to
the disparate nature of the material we receive, and until we have actually
viewed a work to ascertain the type and level of service(s) we would need
to provide it can be misleading to quote 'ball-park' figures. Prices will
rise according to the length of a manuscript, the nature and extent of
editing necessary, inclusion of illustrations and/or photographs, use
of materials other than standard and any additional services we provide
to the standard package.
However, we do appreciate that some form of guideline is helpful which
is given below. We are also happy to quote for any one or combination
of the services on offer, including limited editions for the author's
own distribution purposes. We cannot, unfortunately, offer marketing and
distribution services for books which have not been published by Pen Press.
PRICING
Prices start from as low as £1,950
for the complete publishing service as follows:
o distribution of press releases
o distribution of review copies
o follow up on local newspaper coverage
o approach local bookshops to stock
o place on world-wide internet sites
o re-stock outlets
A typical first print run is 300 copies, enough for review and to satisfy early demand, allowing us the option to alter the back cover on future print runs to include any favourable review comments the book might gain. Such endorsements on the back of a book can help increase sales. Further print runs are at full cost to the publisher who also benefits from the sale of the book and therefore guarantees to keep the book in print for as long as there is a demand.
We believe our costs are very competitive for the level of service we offer and our means of apportioning proceeds are fair and realistic to both the author and to us: you make a once-only payment to publish your book, and we have a financial incentive to continue selling it. We fail to see the merit of some other arrangements whereby the author is offered unrealistically high percentage returns on sales which then provide the company with little or no incentive to promote and sell the book or, indeed, where sales are achieved and the author then has to pay again to have the book reprinted!
Choose one service or the complete partnership publishing package - as members of the Guild of Mastercraftsmen we are committed to high standards of quality and service. Author satisfaction is of the greatest concern to us and we are sure you will be proud that you made the decision to publish your book
For futher information call 0845 108 0530 or email info@penpress.co.uk