What's included:

 

DEVELOPMENT WORK

• Assessement of manuscript (read through)

• Negotiate/manage contracts

• ISBN allocation

• Adopt new systems, products, services

• Fulfil orders

• Royalty payments

• Cover design and changes 

• Source illustrations and photographs - if required

 

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EDITING

• Editorial 

• Proofreading

• Typesetting 

• Corrections 

• Proof sets

• Copy editing 

• Index preparation

 

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FORMATTING 

• Set-up 

• Scan line fee (interior and cover)

• Formatting for print and digital

• Revised proofs/index proofs

• Drawing up tables

• Digital - press run for e-book

• Print/paper - press run for paperback

• Print/paper - press run for hardback

 

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DISTRIBUTION 

• Register book on distribution channels

• Worldwide registration

• Build worldwide sales network

• Market/sell work to distributors and wholesalers

• Licence work to publishers of other countries

• Build worldwide sales network

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GOLD MARKETING PACKAGE

• Author website page for life of book

• Editorial included in BB+ newsletter, blogs, articles, social media

• Book info included in BB+ Press Kits to journalists, magazines, radio, tv contacts

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• Author interview/questions

• Create and distribute Media OutReach Programme to publishing outlets

• Create and distribute Press Kits to journalists, magazines, radio, tv contacts

• YouTube - a 30 second video trailer

• Book review requests - correspondence

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• YouTube - a 3 min video trailer

• Sample chapters emailed to independent booksellers

• Create promotional material (cards/flyers/posters etc)​

• Information to book communities

• Create a viral marketing campaign

• Point of sale material - posters, display kits, copy holders, presenters, brochures, badges

• Paid Media advertising - magazines, newspapers, journals, websites

• Direct marketing - write copy, design, produce

• Direct marketing - brochures, email campaigns

• Direct marketing (targeted) - teachers, universities, librarians, business, legal professionals, booksellers

• Direct marketing (targeted) - TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, journals

• Giveaways - freebooks left in bookstores, on trains, buses, planes

• Digital proofs distributed to bloggers

• Digital copy to Mumsnet and other online platforms, create a viral marketing campaign

• Arrange author book signing, literary festivals

• Organise prominent display adverts, early reading copies, free gifts, DVDs with author interviews

• Organise summer reading campaigns, bespoke competitions for retail chains and point of sale material

• Create author questionnaire, personal information, biography, a blurb, short synopsis, main selling points of book

• Research and notify intended readership

• Send information to membership organisations and online forums, details to bloggers and request for blog reviews 

• Organise attendance at festivals, conferences, exhibitions

• Keywords and analytics - Google keyword planner, Trends

• Metadata and bibliographic information, title, author, formats, cover, description, subject classification, territorial rights, price, availability and reviews

• Advance Information Sheets to resellers - ONIX Online Information Exchagne

• Advance Information Sheets to EDItEUR (standards body) Thema - single international subject classification scheme for the global trade

• Advance Information Sheets to Bibliographers - Nielsen Book Data (UK) and Bowker (UWA)

• Advance Information Sheets to Bibliographic Data Services (UK), BISAC (US)

• Advance Information Sheets (MARC - machine readable catalogue format) - used by libraries

• Catalogue in Publication  (CIP) to British Libraries via BLB - British Libraries Bibliography

• CIP data for the Library of Congress, USA

• Legal deposit to libraries - British Library, Bodleian Library Oxford University, Cambridge University Library, National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh, National Library of Wales in Aberystwity and Liobrary of Trinity College Dublin

• Unique Selling Point - match curriculum requirements

• Book's description and synopsis - re-purposed for audiences (style/length)

• Cover blurb to bookshops, web copy on publisher's site, inclusion in email campaigns, adverts, and catalogues

• Cover burb for media or trade buyers, audiences in different countries

• PR - book recommendation sites, bloggers, social media

• PR - advance Information to potential reviewers

• PR - coverage from features, author promotions, tours, literary festivals, signing sessions, radio and television appearances, press releases, launch parties

• PR - around the time of publication, author to appear in newspapers, magazines outlining their typical day or answering questionnaires about their likes and dislikes

• PR - digital campaign planned - author's own online presence, social media

• PR - set up Twitter and Facebook accounts in name of the main character in book

• PR - enter titles for literary prizes

• PR - plan and attend exhibitions, sales conferences

• Thank You's to all people and organisations who help sell the book, sales force, overseas agents, booksellers, wholesalers and aggregators - nine months before publication​

What's included:

 

DEVELOPMENT WORK

• Assessement of manuscript (read through)

• Negotiate/manage contracts

• ISBN allocation

• Fulfil orders

• Royalty payments

• Cover design and changes 

• Source illustrations and photographs - if required

 

​

​

​

EDITING

• Editorial 

• Proofreading

• Typesetting 

• Corrections 

• Proof sets

• Copy editing 

• Index preparation

 

​

FORMATTING 

• Set-up 

• Scan line fee (interior and cover)

• Formatting for print and digital

• Revised proofs/index proofs

• Drawing up tables

• Digital - press run for e-book

• Print/paper - press run for paperback

​

 

​

DISTRIBUTION 

• Register book on distribution channels

• Worldwide registration

​

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​

​

​

​

​

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SILVER MARKETING PACKAGE

• Author website page for life of book

• Editorial included in BB+ newsletter, blogs, articles, social media

• Book info included in BB+ Press Kits to journalists, magazines, radio, tv contacts

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• Author interview/questions

• Create and distribute Media OutReach Programme to publishing outlets

• Create and distribute Press Kits to journalists, magazines, radio, tv contacts

• YouTube - a 30 sec video Trailer

 

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What's included:

 

DEVELOPMENT WORK

• Assessement of manuscript (read through)

• Negotiate/manage contracts

• ISBN allocation

• Fulfil orders

• Royalty payments 

• Cover design and changes

​

​

 

 

 

​

EDITING

• Editorial 

• Proofreading

• Typesetting 

• Corrections 

• Proof sets

​

​

​

​

FORMATTING 

• Set-up 

• Scan line fee (interior and cover)

• Formatting for digital

• Revised proofs

• Digital - press run for e-book

​

​

​

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DISTRIBUTION ​

• Register book on distribution channels

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BRONZE MARKETING PACKAGE

• Author website page for life of book

• Editorial included in BB+ newsletter, blogs, articles, social media

• Book info included in BB+ Press Kits to journalists, magazines, radio, tv contacts

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