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book design and "typesetting"
fractaledgepress will help prepare your
manuscript for publication.
The key to this process is collaboration – you participate at your level
of interest, skill, and comfort. Because the process is collaborative,
your preferences will be given serious consideration, but this service
depends on evaluating and discussing choices about design elements
taking into account feasibility, aesthetics, economics, and the law.
The outcome, however, will share the quality of the press's current list.
Key Benefits
- You get a high quality, printer-ready, electronic copy of your work.
- You enjoy the process.
- You incur the least possible reduction in your bank account for the
quality of the outcome.
- You get "exactly what you had in mind" (Charlie Newman about
deadmachinecity) or something
better than you imagined.
What you bring to the collaboration
- The text – poetry, prose, fiction, non-fiction, technical writing,
whatever.
- The money – 50% at the beginning, 50% at the end
- Optional:
– Cover art
– Graphics: hardcopy, electronic; drawings, paintings, photos
– Author's bio
– Photo of author
– Blurbs (comments on the work from other people)
– Front matter: introduction, dedication, acknowledgements
– List of previous publications
– A press name you want to adopt for the publication
What fractaledgepress
brings to the collaboration
- A bid telling you how much the design, typesetting, and (optional)
consultation
will cost
- The hardware and software necessary to complete the project
- The experience of producing over 20 author-satisfying works
- The training and sensibility to help shape the project into a work
you will be proud to publish
- Optional (cost extra):
– Editing
– Cover Art
– Graphics: hardcopy, electronic; drawings, paintings, photos
– Introductions, cover text
– Flyers, press sheets, posters, business cards
What you get
- One or more electronic forms of your book (.pdf and whatever else
might be required)
- ISBN number
- Barcode including price
- Copyright submission
- Two loose-leaf hardcopies of your work – one for you and one for the
printer
- An announcement on the
fractaledgepress website
- Copyright page notice of design and typesetting by
fractaledgepress
- Optional:
– Participation in the
fractaledgepress onlinesubscriptionservice
(to be available on the new, redesigned
fractaledgepress website)
– Flyers, press sheets, posters, business cards
– Managing the printing and binding process
– Listing on Amazon.com and
BarnesandNoble.com
– Order fulfillment
What you don't get
- A marketing campaign – that's for you and your agents to do
- Reading or book signing gigs – again, for you and your marketing folk
to do
- The "published by
fractaledgepress" branding
- Optional services you don't pay for
What you can do after receiving the output of the
project
- If you want to print a hardcopy edition of the work, find and hire a
printer
you can afford who will do the quality of work you need or want
- Plan to be available for collaborating and clarifying during the design
and
typesetting phases of the project
- Develop a distribution and marketing plan, and hire the agents or other
workers to help execute the plan
What things cost
- Typesetting
Text only pages
$ 5.00 per page
Pages with graphics
$10.00 per page
Cover 2/0
$25.00
Cover 2/2
$40.00
- Design
Book
$50.00
Flier, press sheet
$20.00
Poster
$40.00
- ISBN
$10.00
- Barcode
$35.00
- Copyright registration
$40.00
- Listing online
Amazon.com
$50.00
Barnes& Noble
$50.00
- onlinesubscriptionservice
$50.00
- Order fulfillment
25% of list price
+ postage
If you do your own work or can find a better deal, go for it –
just don't hold your breath while you're looking.
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