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Your Book is Unique
Each book differs in character, length, complexity and format. To determine the price for designing your book we take into consideration all of these factors and tailor a price quote to fit your book project.
Typical questions to determine a quote for your book include:
- Type and complexity of your book. For example, is this a novel with no images other than a cover? A cookbook with images and captions on each page? A children's book with carefully placed text to enhance the flow of the narrative?
- Word count. Along with the size and typographic format of your book, this helps determines the approximate page length of your book.
- Cover and Interior. Will we be designing your cover, interior pages, or both?
- Images. Will you provide them? How many will be included? Will they require captions?
- Image processing. Do we need to prepare the images you provide for publication? For example, you may need your images converted from color to black-and-white, or/and from a jpg format to a tif format. We can also color correct your images to maximize their reproduction fidelity. Scanning your original hard-copy images is also available.
- Format. Will your book be produced for print, ebook, or both?
- Production Management. Are we coordinating production and delivering the files to your printer?
A Firm Quote
Once a quote is made we stick with it unless changes are requested from you. We don't charge for minor corrections and changes within reason. It's part of the book production process that errors often become more apparent in the final proof and we'll gladly make the corrections. But if extensive corrections and changes are requested then an hourly charge ($60 per hour) are added onto the total bill.
Your quote will include the following price breakdown:
- Design fee: You'll receive a minimum of three sample designs to start the design process rolling. With your feedback we'll refine the design until you are satisfied.
- Page layout fee: Our rates are per page. Based on your manuscript's word count we can determine the total length of your book.
- Cover design fee: Based on the complexity of your cover layout and acquiring image elements for its design.
- Production management fee: If you'd like us to manage the production of your book through to it's delivery to the printer or ebook distributor.
Please contact us with details about your book and we'll create your custom book-design quote.