Services & prices

Everything a book needs, sold separately

Eleven services covering the whole journey from raw manuscript to a title people can order in a shop. Buy one, buy several, or take a package and save.

Publication

Kindle & eBook Publication

Your manuscript, reflowable and retail-ready.

Full conversion of your manuscript into clean, validated EPUB and Kindle formats, uploaded to the world's largest digital storefronts under your own account.

£195from, per title
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Publication

Paperback Publication

Print-on-demand paperbacks with a spine you'd be proud of.

Trade-quality paperback setup, from trim size and paper stock through to global print-on-demand distribution, with a physical proof in your hands before anything goes live.

£265from, per title
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Publication

Hardback Publication

Case-bound editions, dust jackets and all.

Case-laminate or cloth-bound hardback setup with optional dust jacket, for gift editions, library sales and titles that deserve the shelf presence.

£385from, per title
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Design

Complex Book Design

Cookbooks, textbooks, poetry, photography, music.

Specialist typesetting for books that refuse to behave: heavy image layouts, tables, equations, musical notation, verse, bilingual columns and indexes.

£640from, project quoted
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Reach

Enhanced Distribution

Get onto shelves, into libraries and across borders.

Expanded distribution into wholesale catalogues, library supply chains, academic buyers and international retail territories beyond the default storefronts.

£150per title, per year
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Editorial

Proofreading & Copy-Editing

The last pair of eyes before the world's.

Professional human proofreading and copy-editing with tracked changes, a style sheet and a plain-English report on recurring issues.

£9per 1,000 words
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Design

Cover Design

The three seconds that sell the book.

Original cover design by a working book designer: three concepts, genre-accurate typography, and every file format your retailers will ever ask for.

£320from, per cover
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Design

Book Interior Design & Layout

Typesetting readers never notice, and always feel.

Professional interior typesetting: type selection, measure, leading, running heads, drop caps, front and back matter, and a print-ready PDF.

£240from, per title
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Compliance

Legal Deposit Administration

The Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003, handled.

We produce, package, post and record the statutory copies due to the British Library and the five other legal deposit libraries of the UK and Ireland.

£95per title
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Reach

Book Marketing Services

A launch plan, not a press release into the void.

A twelve-week launch campaign: positioning, author platform, review outreach, retail optimisation, advertising setup and a measurable reporting loop.

£420from, per campaign
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Compliance

ISBN Assignment

Your own number, on your own imprint.

Assignment and registration of an ISBN under your own imprint name, including barcode generation and Nielsen database registration.

£25per ISBN
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