| How To Get Into Print |
Put your work
together and look at it. Ask yourself these questions:
How many pages will it cover?
Is it handwritten, typewritten,
or on disk?
Do you need professional editing, spell-checking and grammar
checking?
How many copies of your book do you want to print?
Do you want a basic cover or something glossy?
How much can you afford to spend?
Do you want to sell it yourself or have it marketed for
you?
The
prices quoted on this page include typesetting, posting
proofs to the client, correcting the returned proofs,
posting
second proofs to the client and correcting and
posting
third proofs if necessary. They also include cover
design, printing, binding and trimming and postage to
the client.
If
you decide to produce your own book you are in elevated company.
Stephen
King, Mark Twain, Lord Byron, George Bernard Shaw,
Beatrix Potter, Jane Austen, Edgar Allen Poe and A.A. Milne
were just a few of the writers who began their careers by
contributing to their publication costs.
Currently,
your chances of finding a publisher are low - and getting
worse all the time. Today’s demanding financial
market means publishers need sure-fire success. That’s
why they prefer TV celebrities or established writers to
taking risks on new talent.
With
United Press, you can self-publish for as little as £280.
Most other publishers charge £4,000 to £9,000
to put you into print.
One other unique thing about United Press is that we can
produce a minimum of just 50 copies of a book.
This
means you don’t need to commit yourself to
having hundreds of copies of your book produced and having
to pay
for them up front.
As you require more copies of your book, you can
order them in units of 50. So you can always meet demand
without having
to pay for an expensive stockpile of copies.
The total
cost depends on how much you want to spend and how long
your book is. But it’s best to start small
and work your way up, rather than overspend on your first
venture.
So be
realistic. Don’t aim too high too soon.
For a
book of 16 pages plus 4 page high-quality marble cover
in one colour, the fee is £280 for 50 copies and £2.50
per additional copy.
This is ideal if you want to test the
water with something like a collection of poems to send
to friends, the local
press, bookshops, agents and publishers, to get your work
noticed and appreciated.
Our prices
all include typing your work, top quality design, author’s proofs, corrections, repeat author’s
proofs, printing, binding, trimming and delivery.
50 copies
will cost -
£499
for a book of 32 pages with a one colour cover.
£ 1,500
for a paperback book of 104 pages with a full colour cover.
£ 2,500
for a 168 page hardback.
We
can add artwork to enhance your book. Our stock artwork library
has 500,000 images, so we should have an illustration
to fit every subject and every poem or story.