Publishing a book

When it comes to publishing a book, we can provide authors a minimal cost self publishing service, where for a small annual membership, authors can publish as many of their books as they like (subject to acceptance) and get a decent from each sale in royalties.

Most publishers will probably give around a 12% royalty based on the selling price. This whilst looking generous can be limiting especially if you're book only sells a few hundred copies or is marketed at a low price.

There's little point in contemplating,

'Well if my book sells for $9 and I get 12%, that's a $1.08 and if a 100,000 are sold, I'll make $108,000.'

It just doesn't work this way and it can be difficult selling vast quantities of books, so you need to look at selling less but making more profit.

Traditional publishers have the right to pay such low royalties, as they're taking all the risks and not the author. They're the ones who've got to print and promote the author's work. This makes the up front costs for the publisher's higher and as they need to make a decent profit, they're quite rightly able to pay less in royalties to the author. Like any business, publishers are only interested in making a profit and aren't going to be charitable.

qieBooks.com self publishing service reduces the risk for the publisher and the author, so the up front costs are negligible and the only cost for the author is a yearly membership fee. With a higher level of royalty, the author doesn't have to worry about selling thousands of books to make a decent return.

Managed Self Publishing

Using our Managed Self Publishing service authors receive healthy royalties for each sale of their book. We market the author's book, using our internet marketing service, making sure the details of an author's books are seen by many potential buyers. This can lead to an increase in sales and ultimately revenue for the author.

Self Managed Service

Using our Self managed Publishing service authors can expect to receive more royalties for each sale of their book. The author is responsible for any additional marketing of their book.

Just being published on our website will bring in internet traffic and potential buyers but sometimes other marketing tactics (as we use in our managed service) need to be deployed to increase sales. Remember we offer secure publishing, we can help in ensuring authors don't lose royalties by somebody else illegally profiteering from their work.

Secured against piracy

The biggest problem with publishing books through the internet is copyright infringement. It's so easy to share someone else's work of art to the masses and give it away for free.

To reduce the risk of copyright theft and loss of royalties, we employ a secure publishing system which not only encrypts the books we publish but minimises the chances of book's contents being copied and distributed illegally.

Marketing

There's little point in writing a master piece only to find nobody knows anything about it. This is another area where we can help, through our internet marketing service, we can draw interested customers to particular books about subjects they're interested in.

Submitting Manuscripts

To submit a manuscript, please download the author submission guidelines, which provides our guidelines for submission and a document template of our acceptable layout.