Book Packaging

Professional Book Packaging

The fact is that a considerable array of fine authors – Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Alexandre Dumas and Mark Twain among them – famously published their own work. More recently, John Grisham, Amanda Hocking, Tom Clancy and E.L. James all kick-started their writing careers when they were initially unable at to land a mainstream publisher.

On the face of it, online retailing of both bound and ebooks has ushered in a time when it has never been easier, more commercially viable or more reputable for authors to publish their own work. The downside, of course, is that everybody’s doing it. Pick up a Kindle or Kobo and it will seem that there are as many books available to you as there are stars in a clear night sky in Patagonia. Enabling your self-published book to stand out from the crowd and be discoverable is a challenge that grows ever more daunting with every day that passes.

The extensive commercial publishing expertise available at Border Scripts enables us to give the very best advice and support to writer’s seeking to self-publish their work. In addition, we enjoy excellent trading relationships with high quality printers, jacket designers and illustrators, typesetters and ebook converters, both in the UK and overseas.

We offer a full packaging service that transforms your manuscript into fully-finished bound and or ebooks of the very highest trade standard, available for sale through the principal online retailers.

We also give professional advice on a host of critical factors such as pricing, book sizes and formats, printing options, print runs and costs, packaging and distribution, author and book promotion and how to approach overseas agents and publishers to sell your translation rights – the list is far from exhaustive.

Of course, there is no need to engage us for all of the above: you may feel confident that you can do some or most of these things on your own; you may well be seeking to publish only as an e-book. The deliverables and costs will also vary significantly according to your ambitions and, of course, the type of book that you are seeking to publish. A ‘B format’ paperback crime novel of 320 pages is obviously very different animal to a hardback technical manual, replete with diagrams and plates, or to an illustrated cookery book; each has its unique processes and challenges, as well as very different cost and pricing profiles. Consequently, our book packaging services are very much a bespoke and personalised business.

If you would like to consider whether we could assist with your self-publishing project, do drop us a line. A simple email, telling us about your book and the specific services that you think would be of most benefit, is a good beginning. We may respond by requesting a few more details, and if it looks as if you need a very comprehensive service we may set up a meeting with you before giving you a fully costed proposal that would be without any obligation to do business. Despite our publishing background and pedigree, we think you may find that our costs are surprisingly competitive.