IndieAuthorBookServices offers custom publishing services, specializing in high quality, custom book printing.
We are not a traditional royalty publisher. We help authors create beautiful, high quality, custom books through editing, design, and printing (including eBooks). The author is the publisher. We are the production team that gets you there.
We Don’t Cut Corners
IndieAuthorBookServices is here to provide professional services. We work for you. We specialize in printing, editing, cover/interior design and eBooks. We bring professional-grade talent to bear on your project, every time. Our clients consist of speakers, ministry leaders and business leaders.
IndieAuthorBookServices works with professional communicators, speakers, and coaches, as well as writers of other nonfiction, fiction, young adult and children’s books. We specialize in bringing a full service team around our clients. We offer the following services:
Ghostwriting & Editing
Our team of writers and editors are prepared to guide you through the process of turning your manuscript into a book. You are responsible for ensuring your message is communicated well; we are responsible for ensuring a great reading experience for your audience.
Custom cover design
Custom Cover Design
Readers really do judge books by their covers, and if you want readers to pick yours up, you need to consider a professional book design. This feature is part art and part science, and professional designers understand what readers look for when making a buying decision.
Your book cover is your billboard. You have just seconds to convince a reader to pick up your book in an eStore or bookstore. We work creatively to design and produce best-in-industry book covers, web images, and collateral materials that give your message a competitive edge in the marketplace.
After filling out a comprehensive cover design questionnaire, our professional designers will produce two (2) initial cover concepts, up to three rounds of revisions.
Includes:
- Two (2) initial cover concepts showing front cover and spine, delivered via PDF or JPG
- With your feedback we refine selected concepts
- Upon approval, we provide complete cover layout—front, spine, back cover with barcode in position
- Press-ready PDF to the standards of BelieversPress or any other book printer uploaded to their site and/or yours
- A 3D JPEG image of your paperback book suitable for use in promotion in publications or online
Layout & Typesetting
Layout and Typesetting
Quality interior design ensures that the book interior gives readers what they expect; a seamless and ordered reading experience. The result is a book that is appealing, readable, and ready to publish.
Our team delivers the sharp design that readers expect, along with the professional production experience that you expect.
Our process starts with an extensive questionnaire designed to give our typesetters/interior layout teams the best starting point for your project. We layout the first chapter for you in five business days, after which you have the opportunity to make up to 25 layout corrections.
When the corrections are submitted, our team will finish typesetting the remainder of the book and deliver that in ten business days. Our pricing includes placement of up to 10 digital images and delivery of the publishing-ready PDF to you. Suitable for a fiction or non-fiction book (primarily text).
eBook conversion
eBook Conversion
Working from your digital files, we create your eBook in a variety of formats including the industry standard EPUB and popular Kindle (MOBI) format.
When requesting a quote, we need the number of pages and words in your book, along with a few other details in order to give you a conversion price. With BelieversBookServices, you own the converted files and can sell them wherever you wish (including on your own website).
What sets our service apart?
- We give you options—upload your book in either Word or PDF.
- We have real people doing the work for you—there’s no need to pre-format files.
- We format for virtually every eBook reader, including the Kindle, Nook, and iPad.
- Our technology gives you the opportunity to control your content and the layout of your eBook.
- Because we format by hand, your book doesn’t get mangled in an automated process, like it would with so many other ePublishers.
We will convert your finished manuscript into ePub (Nook, iBooks, Kobo, and others) and MobiPocket (Kindle native). Suitable for fiction and non-fiction books that are primarily text with some photos & illustrations.
Provide us the details of the book you need to have converted. We’ll issue you an invoice for the cost and get started!
eBook Document Setup
Included in the pricing package:
- 10 footnotes (+$1 for each additional note)
- Word documents (a PDF document is +$30 for conversion)
- Up to 75,000 words (+$0.0018 for each additional word)
- Up to 10 images (+$3 for each additional image)
Editing services are not included in the pricing but is highly recommended.
Printing - Short run and Long Run
PRINTING FOR INDEPENDENT AUTHORS
BelieversBookServices specializes in printing services for most book projects. The difference is that we give authors the best possible prices, direct from the printing companies we partner with.
Our low print prices set authors up for the best retail prices, and optimum sales.
Like many industries, the print world is filled with terminology that can be difficult to understand. To compound the issue, some of the same terms are used to define different things.
- Print-on-Demand (POD): a book is printed as needed for any purpose
- Print-to-Order (PTO): a book is printed to fill a specific order, whether for retail sales, or direct-to-consumer fulfillment
- Short run printing (digital printing): a few books up to a few hundred books are printed to supply a small inventory or orders
- Long run printing (offset printing): larger print runts (generally longer than 750 units) which fill a larger inventory or orders
Important! BelieversBookServices provides authors with some of the best print prices in the industry so that you can sell your books with competitive retail prices, rather than using high print costs and complicated formulas to determine what your readers will pay.
Print-on-Demand & Print-to-Order
With this service, a book is printed to fill a specific order, whether for retail sales through a bookseller like Barnes & Noble, or direct-to-consumer fulfillment from an order placed on your website.
Short Run Printing
A few books up to a few hundred books are printed to supply a small inventory or orders of multiple copies.
Long Run Printing
Printing has evolved from traditional printing (offset presses) for all book printing, to shorter and short runs (digital presses), to a true print-on-demand printing. Long run print runs today, generally happen with orders of 750 books or more.
WE GO DIRECT TO THE PRINTING SOURCE
BelieversBookServices maintains strategic alliances with a group of professional book printers to secure the best possible print prices for you.
“Sometimes you need more than print-on-demand. I did a special, full-color, signed, numbered hardcover of a short book I had written with Neil Peart (RUSH). We had a large fan base and a lot of interest, so we decided to do a run of 800 copies…every one of which sold out. Because this is a special project to me, I wanted someone professional who did quality work. Dave Sheets at BelieversBookServices produced an excellent, beautiful product, and I know the fans are as happy as I was.”
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When I started to take indie-publishing seriously back in 2018, I realized that for as easy as it was to publish a book, publishing it the “right way” proved much harder.
I also realized that, as with many things in life, the path to success is not only based on what you know but also on who you know. Dave Sheets and BelieversBookServices (BBS) have since proven to be crucial allies who’ve walked alongside me on that path.
Earlier in 2020, I published my fourth fantasy novel in a series. I’d been doing a lot of local comic conventions and other live events, and with four fantasy books (plus a handful of other books I’ve written), I knew I would need a decent amount of inventory to be able to keep up with readers’ demands.
I’ve ordered books from a variety of printers, but it had never been enough copies to justify working with BBS. That order, though, of 600 books, was the moment I knew I have to go with BBS. Not only did the books cost less than the other printers I had been using but they also arrived in time (despite short notice on my part) and were of better quality. On top of that, Dave provided excellent customer service the whole time. Since then, I’ve nearly sold out of the first book in the series, Blood Mercenaries Origins: And when I do get close to running out, I know exactly whom I’ll be ordering from: BelieversBookServices.
If you need books printed–especially a LOT of books–check out BelieversBookServices today. You won’t regret it.”