Hardcover Book Publishing Options For Authors
Hardcover books differ from trade paperback books because they have a durable cloth binding, an embossed spine and a full color dust jacket. The interior flaps of the dust jackets may be printed with the synopsis of the book and relevant author information. The back cover of the dust jackets may also be printed with excerpts of book reviews and endorsements by respected book critics. To cover for the additional costs of producing them, prices of hardcover books are $10 more than ordinary paperbacks. Moreover, delivery time of hardcover book orders also take 7 days longer than the paperback edition. Hardcover book publishing services are offered by both large publishing companies and independent printing presses. Other factors that will affect the price of the book are the materials used, author royalties and applicable third party permissions.
Hardcover book publishing services offer two standard sizes which are 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches or 6 inches by 9 inches. Moreover, the final printed format should have a minimum of 104 pages or an estimated 34,000 words in manuscript format through Microsoft Word or Word Perfect documents. Hardcover books have a higher page length requirement than paperback editions. Moreover, a unique International Standard Book Number (ISBN) will be assigned to a hardcover book. This standardized number is used to distinguish individual books. The ISBM contains information about the book language, the unique publisher code and individual title code. This information can be used by booksellers all over the world who are selling copies of the book.
Several small publishing companies offer hardcover book publishing services to authors who want to have their books published without necessarily having to submit manuscripts to literary agents. These companies help authors, especially the new and unpublished authors, realize their dream of having their books published. This is because large publishing houses rarely gambles on untried authors. In the publishing packages offered by these companies, the hardcover book publishing option is available to authors. Usually, during the purchase of the publishing package, the author is asked to provide excerpts of book reviews and endorsements so that they could be printed on the back portion of the dust cover. In addition, among the hardcover book publishing services provided by self publishing companies are marketing activities that will increase consumer awareness about the published book. They also make it possible for copies of the hardcover book to be displayed and sold in many retail outlets, bookstores and online retailers like Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com.
Authors whose works, both in paperback or hardcover book publishing format, are published by large publishing companies earn five to six percent of the net sales as royalties. For authors who choose to self-publish, they could earn from 15 to 30% of the gross sales. With the right marketing machinery, authors could earn more from self-publishing. However, there are thousands of poorly written self-published books that are distributed giving the publishing industry a bad reputation. In fact, many of these books do not achieve high sales volume.
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