You can submit your work to us as an electronic file. We encourage you to make your manuscript as complete and error free as you can.
We advise not to spend effort at making the manuscript look pretty. We will organize it into publishing software, and your effort at making it look pretty will mostly be wasted.
Instead, you should pay attention to make the content complete and error free. This is because any changes afterwards, even if it only be a single comma, amount to redoing almost all publication steps, and it is expensive.
We will provide you with a review draft. Please do read it carefully before approving it.
Your submitted electronic file will minimally go through the following steps.
- We will convert it to the book size that you prefer, for example 6 inch by 9 inch,.
- We will ensure that pages are well laid out, the new chapters start appropriately, and the pages are numbered properly.
- We will ensure uniformity across the book with respect to the choice of fonts, the font sizes, the layout of the headings, the text indentation and layout across pages, and the chapter headings.
- We will perform page setting for the physical layout of the page itself, encompassing elements like margins, orientation, paper size, and gutter space, which are crucial for proper book binding and readability.
- We will perform word setting for the formatting of the text, including font type, size, line spacing, and alignment.
- We will provide the front matter, like the cover pages, copyright page, the dedication page, the foreword, the preface, and the table of content. Similarly, we will take care of the back matter.
- The above services are mandatory. The authors can do these themselves. But if we provide them, it will cost $335, at the minimum, for a book of up to 200 pages.
- We will guide the authors through, for example, acquisition of an ISBN. We can provide one for $50.
- A separate ISBN is needed for the eBook publication.
- For the hardcopy book, a bar code is also required. We will generate one for $55.
- The authors can generate a cover, including the front, back and the spine. The back cover needs the bar code. If we provide the full book cover, the cost would minimally be $130 for a simple cover. If you want graphics of your choice on the front cover, you can provide the graphics and we will incorporate it into the cover design.
- We will publish the manuscript as supplied by the author.
- We can spellcheck the manuscript for a fee of $30 for books up to 200 pages. We will not spell check or edit quotes from other languages.
- We will publish the figures and tables as submitted by the author, and as they change during the above publication processes; without formatting, resizing and editing. Also, we will publish the equations as provided by the author, without formatting or editing.
The above description is for approximate estimation.
It does not include editing the manuscript, linguistic correction, grammar, clarity of presentation, word setting and reformatting. We can provide these services for additional fees.