Our Publishing Service
This service comprises two offerings and which in outline are as follows:
A. The publication of your paperback under the hard copy Print on Demand (“POD”) process:
This means that we will manage every stage of the process for you from the submission of your electronic manuscript to us to the shipment
copies to individual customers or of batches of the printed work to book wholesalers and retail book shops and / or by way of a retail
sale on-line.
B. The publication of your paperback on-line:
This means that your manuscript will be available for purchase on-line as an electronic down load by the owners of a PC or laptop; or
an iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, Mac, Android; iPhone and we will manage every stage of the process from the submission of your manuscript
to us to on line book store loading process and the payment of your author’s fees on quarterly basis
Whose books can we publish?
1) Well obviously ….. yours to start with, be it fiction or nonfiction; poetry or prose; academic or leisure orientated; and on almost
any subject, perhaps family material, such as a degree dissertation; or
2) The works of a favourite author now out of print; a favourite classical work; the efforts of a neglected author; or an author whose
sector is highly specialised and thus not suited to bulk print runs.
Copyright in the work
This is a complex area which requires careful research and verification but broadly the rules are as follows:
- If you assert yourself to be the author, then the rights vest with you.
- If the material has been authored by someone else, then the rights vest in that person and then after their death in that person’s
estate until 31st December in the year during which the 70th. anniversary of the creator’s death occurred.
- Once a book is out of print then the publisher’s rights lapse.
- In respect of older books when the 70th anniversary of the author’s death has passed then we can develop a new version by a
“scan and develop strategy”.
For further information click this
link.
The establishment of copyright has to be your responsibility as the ‘author’: however we can advise on the matter, but this would
incur a modest charge.
In both scenarios A and B above, the process starts with an electronic copy of the source manuscript and we can quote for the whole
publication process based on our evaluation of that e-material.
If the material is older then perhaps it is not available in an electronic format: in which case it will have to be scanned into memory.
This process is not complex but it can be very time consuming and even the most sophisticated scanners will deliver an accuracy level
determined by the whiteness of the paper and the contrast with blackness of the ink, page wear and creases; spots and marks; font type
and size and the state of the spinal binding. The only way to determine the practicality and cost of an edited scan is to test the source
material: to that end we would need you to lend the original to us; you world be responsible for the safe insured delivery of the material
to us; for our part we will be responsible for its safe keeping during the evaluation process and its return.