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Have questions? Email publishing@e-booktime.com or
call toll free 1-877-613-2665
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So you finally finished the book you have been working on for months?
Ready to see it in print? E-BookTime is the book publisher who can
turn your dream of becoming a published author into a reality!
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We offer authors the ability to quickly and easily have their book
published as a print on demand paperback and hardcover book. If
you are not familiar with print on demand, it is a process where the
printer can create a single copy on demand for shipment to customers.
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It costs only $695.00 to publish your work in both paperback and hardcover editions if you choose none of the optional services. You will also receive five free copies of the hardcover edition of the book.
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In a real hurry? Need your book extra quick for a special event or other deadline? Our Rush Service is for you. For an additional $100.00 we will put your
book on the fast track and have it in print within 14 days (not including author proof review time). Rush service is not available for printed manuscripts that also require our scanning service.
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Following are the key features of this service:
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Royalties of 30% for sales from our store (direct sales) and 15% for
sales through other retailers (wholesale sales) for paperbacks.
Royalties of 25% for sales from our store and 10% for sales through
other retailers for hardcover books. We believe you will find these
compare very favorably to those offered by any other POD book
publisher. We pay royalty fees every
month regardless of the amount, normally within 15 days after the end
of the month.
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Special discount prices for sales to authors for use in promotional
events or personal sales programs. Note: Royalties are not paid on
these sales.
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Hardcover and paperback books are listed for sale by Amazon.com, Borders.com,
BarnesandNoble.com as well as other major online retailers and are available for special
order through most walk-in bookstores.
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An ISBN is assigned to both the paperback and hardcover editions which
means inclusion in Book In Print.
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If you want to have your copyright registered, we will be happy to
submit the application for you. We charge $125.00 for this service
which includes payment of the registration fee. Please be advised it
generally takes six months or longer to receive the registration
certificate from the US Copyright Office. Registration of your
copyright is not required for us to publish your work.
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If your manuscript has pictures, illustrations or other images there is a fee
of $5.00 per image. Please be aware that all interior pages of books are printed in
black and white only. If you submit images in color we will convert to grayscale for
printing. There is no fee for pictures or other artwork to be used on covers.
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A Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN) is not required for publishing,
however, you may want one to be assigned. The LCCN is a unique identification
number assigned by the Library of Congress to the catalog record it creates for
each book in its catalog system used by most libraries. While assignment of a
number does not guarantee libraries will acquire your book, libraries seldom acquire
books without an LCCN or CIP data. For a $50.00 fee we will arrange for assignment
of an LCCN to your book and submit a copy of it to the Library of Congress.
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Your published book will be available for sale from our store
approximately one to two weeks after you approve the proof copy of
the text and cover files we email to you. That generally means your
book will be available for sale within four to six weeks of the day
we receive your manuscript and payment. Because of the number of
parties involved and their own time schedules, it may take an
additional two to three weeks for your book to be available through
Amazon and the other online retailers, but it is usually sooner.
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You retain full rights to the book we publish. We acquire no right of ownership to the work or control over its copyright, distribution, or sale. You have the right to directly sell the book and to enter into other publication and sales agreements without restriction.
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Copyedit service is available for authors who think their manuscript needs some extra polishing work to make it ready for printing. This service is only $.01 per word. Click the green Copyedit button at the top for more information about copyedit services.
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Fee includes a $24.00 initial cataloging service charge ($12.00 each
for paperback and hardcover). There will be an annual catalog renewal
charge of $24.00 for books which did not have at least $100.00 in
sales during the preceding year.
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Because of the printing costs involved there will is a minimum retail
price for your book depending upon the number of pages, however, you
can set a higher price if desired.
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Our standard book size is 5 1/2” X 8 1/2”, however, we can also publish in a 6” X 9” size if desired. The paperbacks will have four color laminated covers and the hardcovers will have four color laminated dust covers. For hardcover books, the title and author name will be stamped in gold foil on the spine of the book. The interior pages are printed on high quality, acid-free, book-grade paper stock. For hardcover books the interior pages can be printed on light creme paper only. Total interior page count must be no less than 108 and no more than 550 pages. Interior content will be black and white only, sorry, no color. If images or diagrams are included they will be printed as grayscale.
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Free cover templates are available. We will add the book title and
author name. If you wish, you may supply a small photograph or other
image in a jpeg file for overlay onto the front, back, or both
covers, for example, a photograph of the author for the back cover.
Of course we welcome custom designed covers. If you would like to
provide a cover, please ask us for cover specifications.
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The following table lists book prices and royalty rates for Paperback
editions:
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Minimum |
Author |
Author Royalty |
| Pages |
Retail Price |
Discount Price |
Wholesale Sales (15%) |
Direct Sales (30%) |
| 48 - 107 |
$8.95 |
$6.26 |
$1.34 |
$2.69 |
| 108 - 150 |
$10.95 |
$7.66 |
$1.64 |
$3.29 |
| 151 - 200 |
$12.95 |
$9.06 |
$1.94 |
$3.98 |
| 201 - 250 |
$14.95 |
$10.46 |
$2.24 |
$4.49 |
| 251 - 300 |
$16.95 |
$11.86 |
$2.54 |
$5.09 |
| 301 - 350 |
$18.95 |
$13.26 |
$2.84 |
$5.69 |
| 351 - 400 |
$20.95 |
$14.66 |
$3.14 |
$6.29 |
| 401 - 450 |
$23.95 |
$16.76 |
$3.59 |
$7.19 |
| 451 - 500 |
$25.95 |
$18.16 |
$3.89 |
$7.79 |
| 501 - 550 |
$27.95 |
$19.56 |
$4.19 |
$8.39 |
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The following table lists book prices and royalty rates for Hardcover
editions:
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Minimum |
Author |
Author Royalty |
| Pages |
Retail Price |
Discount Price |
Wholesale Sales (10%) |
Direct Sales (25%) |
| 108 - 150 |
$24.95 |
$16.95 |
$2.50 |
$6.24 |
| 151 - 200 |
$25.95 |
$16.95 |
$2.60 |
$6.49 |
| 201 - 250 |
$26.95 |
$17.95 |
$2.70 |
$6.74 |
| 251 - 300 |
$27.95 |
$18.95 |
$2.80 |
$6.99 |
| 301 - 350 |
$28.95 |
$19.95 |
$2.90 |
$7.24 |
| 351 - 400 |
$29.95 |
$20.95 |
$3.00 |
$7.49 |
| 401 - 450 |
$30.95 |
$21.95 |
$3.10 |
$7.74 |
| 451 - 500 |
$31.95 |
$22.95 |
$3.20 |
$7.99 |
| 501 - 550 |
$32.95 |
$23.95 |
$3.30 |
$8.24 |
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NOTE: Authors who order 25 to 99 copies will receive an additional
five percent discount off the price of the books. Orders for 100 to
249 copies will receive a ten percent discount off the price of the
books. Orders for 250 or more copies will receive a twenty percent
discount off the price of the books.
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If the author sets a retail price different than listed above, the
Author Discount Price will be that shown for the actual page count of
the book.
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Minimum book prices and annual catalogue renewal
rates are subject to change at the sole discretion of
E-BookTime, LLC.
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For more detailed information please download and review our full
publishing guide. For the Microsoft Word version, right click
Publishing Guide (MS Word) and then "save as".
For the Adobe PDF version, right click
Publishing Guide (Adobe PDF) and then "save as". Of
course questions are always welcome so feel free
to email us at publishing@e-booktime.com or
telephone us at 1-877-613-2665.
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No Questions? Ready to get published?
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Getting Started
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We are your book publisher so it is our job to make it as easy as
possible for you to get your book published. Get the publishing
process started by taking care of the following easy steps and we
will take it from there:
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Step 1) |
Download and complete our order form. For the Microsoft Word version,
right click Order Form (MS Word) and then "save as".
For the Adobe PDF version, right click
Order Form (Adobe PDF) and then "save as". |
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Pay online, by check or money order; or complete the credit card section of the order form. |
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Email or mail the order form, manuscript and any other files. |
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A Few Words About Submissions
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Manuscripts - We prefer to receive your manuscript in a Word file,
but WordPerfect, Works, and others are all OK. Don't worry about how
your manuscript is formatted in terms of spacing, margins, page
breaks, copyright page, table of contents (if you want one), etc. We
will handle everything as long as we can understand your text. Your
manuscript text should be publication ready as far as what it says; however, you will have
an opportunity to review the formatted text print file and request changes prior to actual publication.
If you think your manuscript may need a thorough editing before publication, please consider our copyedit service.
Click the green Copyedit button at the top for more information. We can also accept
printed manuscripts if you do not have it in a computer file,
however, there is an extra fee for scanning. It must be typed
in a non-cursive font similar to what you see here so our scanners
can read it.
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The Order Form - We must have a complete mailing address, email
address and Social Security Number. These are essential for staying
in contact with you, sending you royalty payments and reporting
income to the IRS. The Book Description is very important. This is
displayed on websites selling your book. The other items are related
to the formatting and pricing of your book. Most are optional, so if
they are left blank it won’t delay our processing. If something isn’t
clear or if you just plain don’t particularly care about an item,
leave it blank and we will contact you for clarification if needed.
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Text Style – The standard text style we use is what is most commonly
used in the publishing industry. That means we use a single space
between sentences, indent paragraphs three tenths of an inch, justify
text both left and right, and let paragraphs split between pages. Our
texts do not have blank lines between every paragraph unless the
author requires it. If there are blank lines between every paragraph
they would not be indented. On our order form you can specify a
particular font and size if you wish and we will do our best to use
it or something similar. If you don’t indicate one we will use the
one we think is most common and easiest to read when printed – Times
New Roman size 11. Right click here and then
"save as" if you want to download an Adobe file
showing some examples of the most common fonts used in printed books.
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Formatting - We accomplish all text formatting required to get your
raw material into a professional, pleasing book format. This includes
any special format requirements you indicated in the Order Form. The
format of the manuscript you send us is not important as long as we
can understand it. Concentrate on what the text says, spelling,
grammar, etc., and it will be fine.
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Cover - The final building block used to publish your book is the
cover. You can use one of our cover templates, supply your own
finished cover image, or we can do quite a lot of custom cover work
(free) but we don’t do creative graphic art. That means you could
provide us a jpg image to use for the background of the front, back
and spine of the cover, ask for text effects for the title and other
text, supply an author photo for the back cover, etc. You can’t tell
us verbally to create artwork in the sense of drawing things but we
can do pretty much anything else to customize a cover to your desire.
We also have a source where we can obtain images to use for cover
backgrounds so if you tell us what you might like we can probably
find something suitable. If you need us to scan a picture or drawing
for the cover we can do that as well. Click the covers tab above to see our
assortment of cover templates.
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Final Things
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When we receive your submission we will open your manuscript file and
give it a quick once over to make sure it is understandable and was
not scrambled somehow in transmission. If everything looks OK, we
will send you an email letting you know that we have it and will
start work on publishing your book.
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After the preparation work is done we will create a proof file of the
text and another of the cover. We quality check the files and then
email them to you for review.
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You should review the files carefully. Check the cover, copyright
notice, table of contents, general page format, format of the
beginning of chapters, one last check for spelling or grammar if
desired, etc. Let us know if something needs to be changed, even if
you now want it formatted differently than you said on your Order
Form. We want you to be completely satisfied with our book publishing
process.
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If you have changes, we will make them, recreate the files and email
them to you again for review.
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When you tell us your book is ready we will submit everything to the
printer for set-up. Set-up takes approximately 5 days. When it is
complete we will notify you that your book is available for sale and
provide you a special form for ordering books at the author discount
price.
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