Costs: Let's start with a "ballpark figure": $2,000. An author gets the services and copies described in the what you're buying pages. Some of our costs are relatively predictable, e.g., the cover design and the layout and the online services. The printing costs vary depending on the number of pages (obviously), but we control that cost with the electronic prepress. Here are typical costs for building typical books and supplying the services described in this site:

72 page poetry book with 4-color cover, no inside graphics: $1,850   240 page novel with 4-color cover: $2,350   196 page family history with 4-color cover and 28 black-and-white images: $2,400   Remember, these are rough figures that will vary with the specifics of your book. For pricing of your book, fill out the form below.

Last Name
First Name
Street
City
State
Zip
Title of Book
Prose: number of words
Poetry: number of poems and total number of lines
Telephone number with area code
Author's email