Our ultimate Diamond package offers the greatest profit margin and the most free options anywhere, including a free e-book edition, free press release distribution, free Library of Congress number, a free audio excerpt on your free author webpage, and much more. All Diamond books include professional interior layout, an ISBN number, a price-embedded barcode, and unlimited wholesale printing, fulfillment and distribution via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Bertram, and others.
Paperback bindings are high-quality perfect bound. Casebound bindings are full-color laminated casebound covers, like textbooks. Dust jacket bindings are cloth-stitched hardbacks with full-color wrap around dust jackets.
While the official length for a paperback must be 48 pages when published (and no longer than 800 pages), paperback books as short as 30 pages can be cleverly "padded" to reach the minimum.
While the official length for a hardback must be 108 pages at publication (and no longer than 800 pages ), hardback books as short as 90 pages can be cleverly "padded" to reach the minimum.
All our covers are full-color, unless purposely designed by the author to be in black/white. All Diamond interiors are black/white and professionally formatted according to the choices you make during the pre-production process.
Paper Type refers to page weight and width. For example, 441 PPI means that 441 pages (221 pieces of paper) is one inch thick. Use this formula to calculate your spine (or better yet, just let us do it for you -- it's included).
Paper Color refers to the tone of the page. Creme-white is a 30% recycled natural off-white color. White is a pure white. All paper is off-set, opaque, acid-free and meets all library archival standards.
10 Free Author's Copies included with Publishing Price
10 paperback copies of your book are automatically shipped to you when your book is published. Shipping is free within the continental United States. Authors residing outside of the United States will be charged shipping costs and all applicable international taxes and brokerage fees.
The hardback edition comes with 5 free copies.
Cover Options - 3 plans to choose from
Three great cover plans mean the ultimate in cover control.
Plan 1) The highly-recommended custom cover option for $299 -- have one of our cover designers create an exclusive work of art for your book.
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Plan 2) Submit your own cover.
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Plan 3) Customize your own cover for free online:
Start with a professionally pre-designed foundation (25 to choose from)
Select from over 18 different color variations
Choose from literally hundreds of thousands of different image choices with our "Image Gallery" option, which is free with the Diamond package.
Here's how it works:
Select from one of the professional designs below.
If your design has an image, you may use that default image, submit your own, or select an image from our 100,000+ photo gallery.
Select your background color from among 18 choices or use the default color. Click on each cover sample below for a larger look.
ISBN and Barcode Included
As a default, your Diamond book will indicate publication by Outskirts Press and you will receive a unique ISBN with your package.
Or optionally, you may submit your own ISBN number and publish under your own imprint while we do all the work "behind the scenes."
We will produce an industry-standard, price-embedded barcode for your book and put it on the back cover as part of our included service.
The power of on-demand printing and on-demand distribution can make your book available for unlimited wholesale availability via the following sales channels shown below (as well as the potential for many others, like Target.com, etc.). Your book will automatically be available through I-Page, the book ordering system available at over 25,000 bookstores and retail chains.
Your book will automatically be listed online with Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other e-retailers for sale.
Outskirts Press will print and fulfill an unlimited amount of orders originating from any of these sales channels below, without any additional out-of-pocket printing costs for you, ever. You only pay for books you order yourself (and you don' t have to order any unless you want to). Your distribution-on-demand sales channels can include:
In addition, applicable Diamond books of a religious/spiritual nature will be submitted to Spring Arbor Christian distribution for consideration. As with all retailers and wholesalers, books accepted by Spring Arbor are at their discretion and outside of the control of Outskirts Press.
There is an $25/year digital storage/distribution fee, billed the first January after your book is published.
* The author's pricing plan determines the book's trade discount, which helps determine distribution. The author can set the trade discount from 0% - 55%. The higher the trade discount, the more distribution opportunities become available from the channels above. Wholesalers and retailers are not obligated to carry/stock/order all books. For instance, the book's content and subject matter play a very large role in some retailer's (like Target's) opinion of it. We have no control over a retailer's decision to carry/list/stock your book. Most retailers base their decision to stock/carry/order a book based upon three factors: Trade discount, returnability, and the book's overall strength/content.
Book Pricing and Royalties
At Outskirts Press, you set your own pricing plan, which includes setting your own retail price, royalty, and author discount. If you are not sure what pricing to select, we offer recommended pricing based upon your book's length.
Only Outskirts Press lets you customize all your pricing with our amazing Pricing Calculator. You can change your pricing plan for even greater control and flexibility.
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Three great cover plans mean the ultimate in cover control.
Select from one of the professional designs below. 
As a default, your Diamond book will indicate publication by Outskirts Press and you will receive a unique ISBN with your package.
In addition, applicable Diamond books of a religious/spiritual nature will be submitted to 
