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 ARTSHIPpublishingDepending on the size, type and complexity of your book, we may be able to get it into print and market it with NO MONEY OUT OF YOUR POCKET. Our revolutionary offer: ............OPTION A: Author pays ALL hard costs of design, production, promotion, web site, and distribution; ARTSHIPpublishing pays author 75% of net sales revenues of each unit distributed—with an unlimited number of books supplied free to the author to sell or give ...OR: ............OPTION B: Author pays 50% of all hard costs; ARTSHIPpublishing pays author 50% of net sales revenues of each unit distributed—except for 10 books supplied free to the author... OR: ............OPTION C: ARTSHIPpublishing pays ALL hard costs; and pays author 25% of net sales revenues of all units distributed; with no books free to the author ( author pays 75% of book price). ____________________________________________________________ THERE IS A LOT OF INFORMATION ON THIS PAGE! ... If you are an author searching for the best way to market your book, or anyone new to publishing, review this page carefully-- it will help you to identify the services you need and help you select the right solution. ____________________________________________________________ BEFORE your book is formatted and in production (CLICK HERE 
ABOUT BOOK Marketing Services
It is a sad fact of life that a new author, especially one whose book has an untested market potential or a niche audience, will be able to get a contract from a conventional publishing house only with enormous difficulty, if at all. So the author is faced with THREE basic alternatives: (1) LEARN Self-publishing. Here the author is forced to take a break from writing in order to go through the publishing learning curve—to perform obtaining ISBN and other registration numbers, copyright, barcode, editing, layout, designing a cover, pricing, shopping for a printer, paying for a press run, arranging warehousing, designing and printing press releases and other advertising/ kit materials, buying mail lists for electronic and non-electronic mailings to resellers and reviewers, setting up re-seller accounts, entering competitions, placing ads, writing and sending articles, applying to libraries and book clubs, creating a website, securing merchant credit card accounts, receiving orders, packaging and postage, invoicing, collecting accounts, etc. –This is a route which could conceivably detour the author for years and in the long run, cost far more than utilizing an outside service. (2) Select an ALL-Service Publisher on a Royalty Basis. This means that, if your book is accepted, the publisher performs all services required and pays the author a percentage of sales—anywhere from 5 to 50%, depending on the amount of risk the book represents and the amount of money the publisher had to pay out or is receiving from sales through its own channels. If you select an ALL-service company, you may run into difficulty if your book is very large, or contain more illustrations and color features than they want to deal with. When the author wanted to submit Haunted Palace for production, he submitted it to 20 all-service publishers, only to be rejected by all except 2 of them because of the number of color pages involved. This is how ARTSHIP became a publisher! (3) Use Fee-Paid Publishing Services. There are various options here—all of which also take time to assess and select—but there is also flexibility, in that an author may buy all the services required from a single book publishing group, or from more than one group or company, to keep costs low as possible. (S)he may select a book editing/ formatting service for the physical aspects of pre-production—obtaining registry numbers, barcode, and copyright, and having the book layout and design completed—printing from another-- then purchase services from a book publicity company to get the title reviewed by newspapers and journals, carried by the book resellers, entered in directories, book clubs, competitions --. And purchase sales, warehousing and distribution services from yet a fourth company. This however can be time-consuming, to research and deal with all these services. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reviewing the Competition: this is a selection of full-service companies offering their services on the internet as of August 1, 2006: Company “A”, a paid publisher, offers an all-inclusive service, including the production of the book. It offers the author royalties (a percentage of sales) of 5 to 15 percent on retail sales, and between 10 and 50 percent on any books sold via its own website.It also offers post-production marketing services such as Its Expanded Publicity Package —which includes a press release to be sent to 300 media outlets, 30 “starter” kits for the author to send to bookstores, plus a catalog of tips for the author to use for his/her campaign; and offers this for $ 700. Company “B” is a publishing company which, if it accepts the book, will perform the marketing and distribution as well as publication, paying the author 20% of sales revenues. It gives the author 5 copies free and sells author additional books at 40% off list price. Company “H” is a publishing company which, if it accepts the book, will perform the marketing and distribution as well as publication, paying the author 40% of sales revenues. Company “T” will – if it accepts your book-- edit, produce, publicize, and distribute the book through its Best Seller PLUS plan, giving the author between 10 and 40 books for his/her own use and charging $1949 for all publicity/ distribution services over and above production/ printing. ARTSHIPpublishing will perform any or all of the services required, and handles all in-house except printing; for which Artship will select the most economical among the highest-quality printers, and can arrange for “short-run” (under 1,000) or volume print runs. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are several very dependable publicity programs offered on a post-production basis; however some do not PERFORM the mailings, but supply the materials and lists, instruct the author how this can be done. Other programs perform electronic mailings ONLY; and the author should know that it is hardly advisable to rely on electronic transmission alone to catch the attention of newspaper, library, and reseller contacts. Here are a few publicity/promotion programs available to authors, from other companies: Bowker’s is the premiere book promotion company ONLINE, primarily because Bowker’s assigns the ISBN, and their international book directory is accessed by everyone to identify books in print. They sell a variety of publicity programs as well--but they do not mail promotional kits, letters, press releases or anything else by the U.S. mail. Their online promo programs are reliable and respected, however, Bowker’s premiere program, with a gold membership, would cost upwards of $ 1,000 per year, and the author would need to do all non-electronic mailings. Company “J”, one of the foremost book publicity /promotion companies, offers its Targeted Media Publicity Program, described as including “ the creation of a professionally written press release with a cover photo of your book and contact information, its release via email and fax to a thorough and updated media database “specific to your book”, delivery of approximately 500 to 800 media contact names including editors, reporters, columnists and syndicated writers.” (Note that what is delivered is contact information for the author to use) . The cost of this program is $895.00; not including the cost the author would have for mailing to the 500 – 800 contacts. Company “L” is a another publicity company offering P.R. services to authors. They describe their Premium Bookselling Package as: ”We write an AP (Associated Press) style press release about your book, send it to 5000 bookstore owners-- and to 700 book reviewers and critics at newspapers and magazines across the country. We always notify you of every response and follow-through on all submission requests.” The program costs $850. This description fails to mention that this is purely an electronic mailing, and does not include supplying the author with their list, which includes religious, children’s, mystic, and all other kinds of stores whether appropriate for the book or not. This company is also an “online only” promoter, but without making that fact obvious. ARTSHIPpublishing will perform any or all of the services required, and handles all in-house except printing; for which Artship will select the most economical among the highest-quality printers, and can arrange for “short-run” (under 1,000) or volume print runs. ARTSHIPpublishing's Publicity & Sales Services ARTSHIPpublishing can perform a TOTAL PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN, or selected tasks only, following the publication of your book. The Complete Publicity Campaign includes: - 7 Printed P.R. materials: letter/ bio, news release, order form, reviewer form, post card, business card, and tri-fold color brochure: 500 of each designed and printed. -50 Media Kits (each including 3+ printed items) mailed: to Media contacts for all regional newspapers,15+ Historical Societies or other appropriate organizations, Acquisitions Librarians of Public Library Systems in 15 Major American cities, and 2 National Book Clubs. -Electronic media kits sent to 1,250 Independent Bookstores in major American cities. -25 Promotional kits including book SAMPLES OR CD-ROM’s will be SENT by mail to:- THE TOP 9 NATIONAL NEWSPAPER FEATURES EDITORS (total circulation, 9 million): USA TODAY, Wall St Journal, NY TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, U.S. Daily News, NY Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Enquirer, ARCHAEOLOGY MAGAZINE SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, 5 other important regional web site and media promoters, and important regional reporters. -Email News Release Kits sent to 8 – 12 appropriate NY TIMES editors and reporters. -Presentation and Printed Books will be sent to: 5 video/movie-producers, and other movie/ entertainment producers deemed appropriate. -5 NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE ADVERTISEMENTS will be placed in the NY Review of Books and in important regional newspapers or other publications. -ARTSHIPpublishing will set up a web site for your book in order to advertise and sell it with a secure server using credit-card merchant account.The site will display book description, testimonials, Table of Contents, author bio, cover image, passages or pages from the book, and several images if appropriate. The quoted price will cover registration, set-up and all promotion and editing for the first year. -Your book will be submitted to the following WEB SITES for advertsing and sales: the BOWKER registry; Amazon.com: (ARTSHIP is an approved PRO MERCHANT SELLER with Amazon; your book will be soild — used and new— in print and CD-Rom in the BOOKS and Z-SHOPS sections); GOOGLE’S BOOK SEARCH; Alibris.com; the JENKINS GROUP web sites, www.allbookstores.com, -www.bookwire.com, independentpublisher.com, and the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2005 -The book will be submitted to the following book FESTIVALS: the Independent Publisher Book Awards competition, in the Library of Congress National Book Festival, Washington, DC; the JENKINS GROUP Book Festival & the Hollywood Book Fest. The above actions by ARTSHIPpublishing for your book FAR surpass any other P.R. Program, is entirely customized, and delivers all promo materials to all contacts by mail as well as electronically. The TOTAL COST for this complete publicity campaign is $ 5,925. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OR, if the author needs only selected actions on this list, (s)he may select from the following : (A) The SEVEN PRINTEDS PACKAGE: $ 775 500 each will be designed and printed: -author bio/ book-signing request letter, -4-color, tri-fold Brochure, -professional press release bulletin, -media reviewer form letter, -bookseller order letter/form, -4-color postcard, and -business card. These will be supplied with instruction as to how they should be used.
(B) The MAILING LIST PACKAGE: $ 495 2,000 mail and email contacts will be supplied including names from: -The National Trade and Professional Associations Directory contacts appropriate for your book; -The appropriate book, entertainment, or other specialty reporters, editors, and reviewers from the TOP NINE Newspapers in the USA, (total circulation, 9 million), including USA TODAY, Wall St Journal, NY TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, U.S. Daily News, NY Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Enquirer, and those key in your area; -Three to five celebrity TV show hosts; -The top 2 or 3 industry publications related to your book; - The top 5 ONLINE bookseller sites including Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com and Alibris.com, with instructions as to how to get your book listed and establish your accounts; -Lists and instructions for placing your book kit into the hands of librarians and book club buyers; and, -1,000 bookstores in your region and major American cities. Including stores appropriate for your book: such as college, religious, children’s, medical, technical, etc. –addresses and email addresses will be supplied in most cases.
( C) COMPLETE CONTACT PACKAGE, incl. all in packages A and B: $ 1,225 : We supply everything you need for a publicity mail campaign, so that you can do your mailings and process responses.
( D) COMPLETE PRINTEDS,CONTACTS, KIT MAILING PACKAGE: $ 1,950 : WE send all letters, kits, printeds, reviewer forms and electronic notices to the contacts listed above, and establish your bookseller accounts for you. ( E) BOOK WEB SITE: (either simple 1-page or multiple-page) ...click here for WEB SITE SET-UP
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Additional actions which could be selected for your book include:
-Purchase Ad in the Bloomsbury Review (which goes to all libraries & bookstores nationwide). -Investigate NABE and “National Trade and Professional Associations” to find associations to interest and other associations to research, join, contact. -----------------------------------------------it's all up to you.-------------------------------------------------- (NOTE: we prefer to work on art, history, and other academic, scientific, self-help 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.)
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