Experience The Best Of Both Worlds:
Unbeatable Support And Incredible Value—The Elemental Package
This package combines editorial insight with essential production and marketing
support and is designed for discerning authors seeking an economical yet
comprehensive publishing experience.
Fine-Tune Your Manuscript
Our editorial specialists evaluate a portion of your manuscript, determining its
readiness for publishing. This assessment guides you to the suitable editorial
services to refine your work.
Pique Booksellers With An Irresistible Offer
Boost your book's market appeal with Author House Publisher's Booksellers Return
Program! Make
your title "Returnable" in Ingram and other major book distribution systems,
ensuring retailers can stock your book risk-free.
More than a Publisher
Author House Publisher is the largest self-publisher committed to creating an amazing
publishing
experience. Here is what's included in the Elemental Package:
Formatting
- Paperback
Publishing - Your book will be available in the most
popular format, made of quality, perfect binding, and acid-free library stock
paper.
- Digital Formatting and
Distribution - Your book will be distributed online as an
e-Book and available through resellers like Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
- Hardcover Publishing - Your
hardcover edition will be perfect bound with a rigid paperboard and finished
with a beautiful dustjacket or in a sturdy case-bound volume with high gloss
lamination (for Full-Color books).
Editing
- Editorial
Assessment - This preliminary diagnostic process
determines which areas of your manuscript need improvement. A detailed review
with commentary and general editing suggestions of the first chapter, or about
1,700 words, will be provided to help you gauge what type or level of editing
will benefit your manuscript.
Production and Post Production Features
- Worldwide Online
Distribution - Your book will be available for sale online
through external retailers such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other
resellers that may pick up your book from the Ingram and Baker & Taylor
distribution networks.
- Standard Cover Design - Choose from a set of cover design
templates to create an eye-catching and compelling book cover.
- Standard Interior Layout - A professional book designer will
create a functional and suitable interior layout of your book from a set of
layout templates.
- Electronic Galley - Also referred to as “galley
proof,” this is your cover and manuscript in a book layout with chapters
and pagination. To ensure the final book design is 100% to your liking, galleys
are e-mailed to you for review and approval before the book is ready for
purchase.
- 35 Image
Insertions - You may provide imagery for your
book’s interior pages, and these will be printed either in grayscale or in
full color (for Full Color Books).
- One Round of Interior Revisions - You may want to make changes
to your manuscript after proofreading your galley. Each block of revisions
allows you to submit up to 50 corrections. Publisher errors such as hyphenation,
formatting issues, or misplaced graphics, which occurred during production, must
also be noted on the proof form but will not count against the first 50
corrections.
- Amazon "Look Inside",
Google, and Barnes
& Noble "Read
Instantly" Previews - Allow readers to take a peek inside
your book creating interest online before purchasing it. Preview available on
Amazon, Google, Barnes & Noble, etc.
- New Releases Section of the Bookstore: As soon as it’s
published, your book is listed and made available for sale in our online
bookstore.
Registrations
- ISBN Assignment - A
13-digit identifier is unique to your book and an industry requirement for
distribution and retail sales. It allows distributors, retailers, printers, and
readers to find and order your book easily.
- US Copyright
Registration - Author House Publisher registers your work
with the US
Copyright Office with copyright registration, so there’s a public record
of your ownership of that manuscript.
- Library of
Congress Control Number - Author House Publisher will submit
a copy of
your book to the Library of Congress and arrange for a card catalog number to be
assigned to your book.
Copies of Books
- 100 Promotional Digital
Bookstubs - As part of your marketing plan, offer
promotional copies of your e-book using digital Bookstubs.
- $350 Credit for your First Book Order - Use your one-time
single-use book credit to order paperbacks, hardcovers, or both on your author
book order.
Marketing Features
- Author Website
Setup (3 pages) - Receive a professional author
website that fits your style and is where readers can go to discover your book
and learn about you as an author.
- 1 Year Of Website Hosting - We’ll handle the domain
registration, renewal, and hosting of your website.
- Book Sales Savvy Guide - With helpful exercises and practices,
this marketing guide can give you the confidence and skills you need to draw
bookstores to sell your book.
- Social Media Kit - In this kit, you'll have everything you need
to grow your social media presence, including page creation, custom banners,
etc. With the rise of content creation and brand deals, a social media kit can
help promote your book and connect with the right readers.
- Print-Ready
Bookmark Design File - Need more than bookmarks to host a
professional-looking event for potential readers? We’ll provide you with
the design expertise to support you through an unlimited number of book events,
so you don't have to worry about creatives for any marketing materials you may
need. Coordinate with your local printer on specs and give us seven business
days to put together all the design file/s based on your special instructions.
- Booksellers
Return Program - A typical program in the self-publishing
industry in which books will be marked “Returnable” in the
wholesaler/distributor ordering system. This is valuable to booksellers by
assuring them credit for unsold bookstore copies. This is a must-have for
authors who want to market to physical bookstores to secure shelf space and
in-store book signings.
Add-on Service
Is your Book Suited for the Hollywood Screen?
Do you think your book would make a picture-perfect movie? One of the unique benefits
of publishing with Author House Publisher is the opportunity to pitch your book to
real-life
Hollywood film industry experts. Here at Author House Publisher, we want you to
succeed.
Where Do You Start?
Author House Publisher Hollywood Book-to-Screen PitchFest is for Author House Publisher published authors
to be able to pitch their stories to film and TV executives. We'll coach you and
help you craft an intriguing elevator pitch of your story that appeals to producers.
It's an experience of a lifetime that our authors have loved time and time again.
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