Designing Your Book

We can work with your book printing project regardless of whether it is in a final “ready for print” format or if you only have basic text in final format. We recommend that you provide us with final text that has been fully edited and spell checked. Making changes after we format your book will cause unnecessary expense in redoing your layout and producing extra proofs. We offer several basic design services based on your requirements for designing an inside layout as well as a professional book cover.

Cover Design Service

A professionally designed cover will make your book stand out! Our creative team will take your basic theme and design a cover incorporating images, professional typography and colors for both front and back cover as well as the spine. This service has a fixed charge of $125.00 and includes all design services and proofs. You will receive a final PDF file suitable for production.

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Inside Page Book Layout Service

Formatting your book with proper margins, typography and layout can really add to the look of your book. Preparing photos and properly inserting them within the page is also something requiring design skills. If you need assistance, our team can take your word files after you have finalized them, and create a professional layout. We will send proofs as well as providing a final PDF production file upon the completion of the project. We can take your photos in digital form or scan them from original hardcopy provided (for an additional charge). The cost of this services is $0.40 / page based on final page count.

In estimating the size of your book in terms of final page count, you can use these “rules of thumb” to convert word counts (shown in Word) into an estimated page count:

• For a book size of 5.5” x 8.5” you will average about 300 words per page
• For a book size of 6” x 9” you will average about 350 words per page
• For a book size of 8.5” x 11” you will average about 550 words per page

Remember to add pages to account for images or photos being inserted within the text.

Proofing Process

If we are doing design service, you will receive soft proofs via email for both inside and cover art. Once you approve the emailed design or if you provide final production artwork, we produce a printed proof of the inside pages trimmed to final size together with a print out of the Cover Artwork. Proofs are not bound in final form. Changes made after the proof is made will incur additional charges as follows.

Cover Proofs are produced using final stock and printer showing how the final cover will print. Some color variance is standard with digital print devices so if color matching is critical advise customer service and they can discuss options for getting the best possible color.

See our Proofing Policy