Bookshapers - Top Self-Publishing Company for Writers publishing books of poetry, novels, and memoirs.


Publishing
Your book can be produced in a number of formats

Formats are: traditional offset, Docutech, or a combination of both, and in paperback as well as hardback.

We will provide a quote on the project before we begin. Offset printing (containing either black-and-white or color interiors) requires press runs of at least 2,000 copies to overcome the initial cost of setting up the press and keep per-unit costs within bounds.

For boutique editions of 200 copies (with full-color covers and black-and-white interiors), Docutech—a relatively new Xerox technology that produces results practically indistinguishable from those that can be achieved by offset—provides a much more cost-effective option our clients invariably find satisfying.

Our book covers are generally perfect-bound and in complete color, and can be laminated to a high gloss if you wish.

Projects of less than 85 pages, like poetry chapbooks or short collections of essays, can also be saddle-stitched (stapled through the spine).

Once your book is published, we can arrange for listing it online with Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and registration with Ingram and Baker and Taylor, two of this country’s largest book distributors.

Download samples of self-published book interiors:
adventuresofgaribaldi.pdf
afewrecordedmessages.pdf
goingtoyuma.pdf

theeyesarethesame.pdf

BookShapers Self-published Covers
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