Book publishing packages: three editions, priced in the open.
Most publishers make you call to learn the number. Our book publishing packages are public, itemized, and priced at the 90,000 word maximum, so what you see is the most you would ever pay. Your manuscript is almost certainly smaller, and the price falls with it.
What $29,000 buys elsewhere.
Our three ways in, priced at the 90,000 word maximum.
Every edition is itemized below, per service, at the maximum word count. Enter your real word count in the calculator and the number falls live on screen.
First Edition
$10,320
Editing, cover, print and ebook formatting, and the marketing that finds it readers.
Book editing
$5,400Cover design
$690Formatting, print and ebook
$930Book marketing
$3,300Under BookBaby's piece-by-piece build, with marketing already inside
Signature Edition
$18,420
The complete launch. Every format covered, full audiobook included.
Book editing
$5,400Cover design
$690Formatting, print and ebook
$930Book marketing
$3,300Audiobook, full production
$8,100Above iUniverse's top tier, and it should be: theirs evaluates, ours publishes
World Edition
$48,540
Two languages, two markets, every service twice.
Translation, full manuscript
$11,700Editing, both languages
$10,800Covers, both languages
$1,380Formatting, both languages
$1,860Marketing, both languages
$6,600Audiobooks, both languages
$16,200Two complete launches in two languages. Scribe sells one.
The $17,700 launch stack, included with every edition.
These are deliverables with market prices, activated the moment you choose any edition. They are included, never discounted, because a book sells when a whole team is working on it.
Author website, your book's own home with a buy button on every store
$3,30090-day campaigns, social and advertising built around your launch
$9,9003D book trailer, the video that makes readers pick your book up online
$1,800Editor in Chief, one senior editor who owns your book end to end
$2,700Included launch value
$17,700First book? We write it with you.
The Manuscript Edition is ghostwriting, all-in: $0.63 a word writes, edits, designs, formats, and publishes the whole book. $56,700 at the maximum, $68,400 with a second language, delivered in 6 weeks. One number, everything included.
The Shelf Test.
Put your finished book next to any traditionally published title on the same shelf.
If the editing, design, or print does not hold up, we revise until it does. Every round, at no additional cost, for as long as it takes.
Your side is one thing: return each proof on time, so your 21 business day launch window holds.
Six books a month. Yours would be one of them.
The capacity holds, even in a busy season.
When a month fills, the next manuscript waits for the next month.
Start today and your on-sale date locks with it.
"I selected Barker Books because they offered the most services for the cost, and because I retained control over my ownership and publishing rights."
He compared what everyone charges. Then he wrote this.
Andrew priced the market before he chose. The editions won on the same three things they are built on: the most services for the cost, ownership that stays with the author, and one team accountable for the whole book.
Edition questions, answered.
Choose your edition. The price is already on the table.
Build it in the calculator at your real word count and check out when you are ready, or talk to a real publisher first. Either way, the number you see is the number you pay.