 Artistic and Competitive: ARTSHIPpublishing offers BOOK Design, Editing, Publishing, Production & Marketing Services...either as a package, or on an "a la carte" basis; and with costs "financed" by sales revenues.
You may choose an entire "concierge" approach., or have us perform ONLY those services you require from us.
We design, layout, cover-design, publish, produce, advertise and sell books for authors and publishers, in PRINT, DISC AND ELECTRONIC formats, and offer a wide range of publicity services including a WEB SITE for your book.
We specialize in art and history publications with multiple images, and we can handle less demanding types of format easily.
 if you are a writer --
As an Independent Publisher, we can provide you with one service or many, depending on what roles you need us to fill: we can design and format your text with images for your publisher or printer-- or offer a complete publishing and marketing package-- so that you can go back to writing, and leave the rest to us.
We offer 3 services NO other small independent publisher offers:
1- We can function as a WRITING COACH, helping first-time authors to realize the full potential of their presentations in terms of characters, place, structure, plot, theme, dialog, and visual images.
2- If you publish with us, we can get your book into print with NO MONEY OUT OF YOUR POCKET.  The way we do this is to handle all expenses, warehouse and market your books, print and sell them on demand, and pay you a lower percentage of sales... giving you revenues without an initial investment. OR, if you prefer to receive a higher percentage, we can SHARE the expenses AND the revenues, 50 - 50.
- OR-- 3- if you really want to pursue the quest of obtaining a MAJOR publisher to produce and market your book, we will act as AGENT-locator, working from lists of known literary agents according to the genres they handle, preparing the query letters, book-samples and kits. We the give you a list with details of what was sent to these agents, so you can follow up and negotiate with the agent / publisher you select.
 Specific publishing tasks we can perform:
Pre-Publish Registrations (if your book does not have an ISBN, it is not a published book, and cannot be found in book catalogs by libraries or booksellers):
..........~apply for & obtain ISBN number, Library of Congress registration #, SAN or EAN, Copyright, and BARCODE.
..........~format the book, page by page, with images and flowing text, margins, headers, page numbers, TOC, references, etc., so that the book can be PRINTED, duplicated as a CD-Rom or DVD, and/or marketed as a DOWNLOAD.
..........~simple editing and spell-checking at no cost
...........~more advanced editing-- choosing and obtaining images and relating them to text, organizing / referencing texts, enhancing / adding to your text, research quotes, locate poetry, list illustrations etc.
.........~add hyperlinks to the PDF Table of Contents so that your disk or online readers can go directly to other chapters or sections.
.........~design and print covers, CD-Rom and disk labels, and jewel-case liners with images and text.
..........~Price your book, based on similar books selling well and production and promotion formulae used in the industry.
Printing & Disk production
..........~Obtain competitive printing and Disc Duplication services in small and large quantities.
..........~Send files to printer/Production company, review proofs, Store digital files.
Distribution
.......... ~Warehouse and ship books and discs as orders come in, and Pay you monthly.
Promotion and Advertising
...........~design your book ad, download instructions, password-protection, and sales mechanism on a new page on your existing web site. OR:
........... ~design, register, maintain, edit, and provide hosting for a new web site, on which we can manage your sales for you. OR:
...........~place your book ad and ordering mechanism to our own web site using our secure server, and send you your checks.
..........~write/design/print marketing letters, reviews, brochures, Reviewer descriptions, Order Blanks, and distribution requests for either YOU OR US to send to a long list of news reviewers and other media contacts, booksellers and others.
..........~enter your book into major national conventions, fairs and expos, submit book to film scouts, book-signing agents etc.
..........~AND, ARTSHIPpublishing is an approved vendor on AMAZON.COM and is represented on GOOGLE's BOOK SEARCH.
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 if you are a publisher --
We can format multiple-image pages for your production or printing team, and any other editing and design services you may need.
NOTE: we prefer to work on art, history, and other academic, scientific, self-help, children's or literary manuscripts. We reserve the right to turn down a manuscript which deals with subject matter with which we do not wish our name to be connected.
IF YOU'VE READ ENOUGH, and would like to inquire....
508-394-1789 or click here to  __________________________________________________________
 Click on this link for a sample of our latest work: You can view the Ebook design, CD package, and single web page we created as a package for "Haunted Palace" by Michael Ramseur. This is a simple 1-page site; we can add pages for author bio and pictures, quotes, other books, etc.
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how to ESTIMATE THE BOOK DESIGN COST (for authors assuming, or sharing, production expenses):
...to PREPARE YOUR MANUSCRIPT FOR DISK DUPLICATION, DOWNLOAD, OR PRINTING: Cost depends on how many pages and images there are. Here are some rough guidelines. Additional tasks are priced at the bottom of this grid. We believe you will find these prices truly competitive.
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