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Digital Printing Packages

Digital printing limited to sizes listed in Print Estimate Chart at the bottom of this page.

Before deciding between our digital and offset printing packages, be sure to read “Digital vs. Traditional Printing” on the Publishing Resources page.

For an explanation of interior and cover design and administrative fees, please read “What do costs include?”

Our basic package saves you money by using one of our templates for your novel, memoir, short story collection, essay collection, poetry collection, or other book idea that can be laid out using one of our existing templates. If you wish to include black & white images to the interior, add $15 per image.

Advanced Design Digital | $1500 + printing costs

Cover Design (all images supplied by author) | $350 (full color)*
Interior Design | $850 (black & white; includes up to 15 images)
Administrative Fees | $300
Printing Costs | see chart to calculate based on size, cover, and page count.
Optional eBook Edition | $50

Our Advance Design package is for those books that require a more complicated layout than that available from our templates, and therefore more time for typesetting. Such books might include training manuals or other books presenting information in a hierarchal format or includes graphs or charts and there for requires extra work by our interior designers. Price includes up to 15 black & white images. If you wish to include additional black & white images to the interior, add $15 per image.

Our Custom Design package is essentially the same as or Advanced Design Digital, but much more cost-effective if you wish to include more than 25 images.

*For foil-stamped hardcover books with dust jackets, add $250 for dustjacket and spine and front cover design for case binding.

Digital Printing Estimate Chart*

Cover Style	Paperback 1 traditional trade sizes (fiction, poetry, memoir, etc.)		Paperback 2 oversized (children's, textbooks, etc.)		Hardcover 1 trade sizes; stamped cloth OR 4-color cover (no dust jacket)		Hardcover 1a trade sizes; w/dust jacket		Hardcover 2 oversized; 4-color cover only
Trim Sizes (horizontal x vertical)	5 x 8" 5.5" x 8.5" 6 x 9"		7 x 10" 8.25 x 11"		5.5 x 8.5" 6 x 9"		5.5 x 8.5" 6 x 9 "		7 x 10"
Printing Costs · $15 per order handling · Shipping not included · Sales tax not included	48 - 104 pages $2.52 per unit 108 - 740 pages $0.90 per unit + $0.015 per page		48 - 104 pages $3.46 per unit 108 - 740 pages $1.30 per unit + $0.02 per page		108 - 740 pages $6 per unit + $0.015 per page (stamped cover subject to $25 set-up fee)		108 - 740 pages $6 per unit + $0.015 per page		108 - 740 pages $6 per unit + $0.020 per page
Example Costs	$0.90/unit + 200 pages x $0.015	$.90 $3.00	$1.30/unit + 200 pages x $0.02	$1.30 $4.00	$6.00/unit + 200 pages x $0.015	$6.00 $3.00	$7.55/unit + 200 pages x $0.015	$7.55 $3.00	$6.00/unit + 200 pages x $0.02	$6.00 $4.00
	Total cost per unit	$3.90	Total cost per unit	$5.30	Total cost per unit	$9.00	Total cost per unit	$10.55	Total cost per unit	$10.00

*Prices subject to change depending on the printer's rates

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