Available Upgrades with the Ultimate

The Ultimate Package delivers everything you need to accomplish your publishing goals. Here are all the details (and some nuggets of wisdom from our President) to help you make the right choice in publishing.

Paperback publication is included with all our packages, and Ultimate clients have the option of adding a hardback edition (with or without a dust jacket) for a little bit more. In fact, all told, Ultimate clients have the ultimate in customization options, with over 50 different trim and format options to choose from. It's an embarrassment of riches, actually, and frankly, all these decisions are one reason authors elect for us to handle ALL the details with a One-Click package instead.

An ISBN. This stands for International Standard Book Number and is the unique identifier for every "real" book that is published. I stress real, and put it in quotes, because so many books nowadays (primarily ebook-only books) are being published without ISBNs. Amazon's proprietary "AISN" is NOT an ISBN. Anyone "in the know" in the industry knows ISBNs are required for all publications, and especially for paperback and hardback publications.

Standard interior black/white book formatting. One of the main advantages of choosing Outskirts Press (or, really, any full-service self-publishing company) is that your book is going to look like a book on the inside, as well as the outside, when it is published. This might sound obvious-- but it's not. Frankly, the computer programs used by those do-it-yourself places cannot format books very well - and when you start adding links or graphics or charts or anything "nice" to your book, they fail miserably. In fact, the nicer you want your book to look, the more difficult it will be for a DIY place to deliver what you want. That's why professional authors seeking high-quality professional book publication, use services like ours. Can some authors get away with formatting their own book themselves? If they're proficient in inDesign, then the answer is ... maybe. Otherwise, it's fairly unlikely the book will turn out well. So if you're considering submitting your manuscript to a do-it-yourself place, or submitting a pre-formatted PDF file to anywhere, ask yourself if you're proficient in InDesign. If the answer is "no" or "kinda" or "what the heck is InDesign" then I recommend you leave the interior formatting to the professionals.

Standard professional cover design. The Ultimate package offers 20 free customizable cover styles to choose from and then further customize with different colored backgrounds and images from a image library of literally hundreds of thousands of photographs. I've seen some free customizable covers that we have published where I cannot distinguish them from "custom covers" costing thousands of dollars at some of our competitors -- our free standard covers can be THAT good. But it depends upon your artistic and creative abilities. If, on the other hand, your area of expertise falls more in line with writing than cover design, our professional custom covers are worth their weight in gold, and then some. That's why we so-highly recommend them.

10 optional image insertions. Ask any professional book designer and she will tell you that properly and professionally inserting images into a book manuscript is a pain. Anyone can do it, but not very many people can do it well. In reality, any page that contains an image becomes a custom-designed page, and those can throw off all the remaining pages in either direction if a substantial change is made to the text (which authors often do as late as the galley-revision stage). But, we are passionate about publishing the book of our clients' dreams, so this Ultimate package includes 10 free images if the authors have some to include. We analyzed all our books over the past 14 years and determined that 10 images was a high enough number to satisfy the needs of over 80% of our clients publishing in black/white. The other 20% had LOTS and LOTS of images, and in those cases, yes, image insertion fees still must apply.

1 free round of revisions. 1 free rounds of revisions with up to 60 free edits.

Unlimited worldwide distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, with global on-demand availability through retailers such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Powells, Books-A-Million, and thousands more. In fact, ANY bookstore with a relationship with Ingram will be able to order and sell your book and you'll never have to incur out-of-pocket printing or shipping expenses for any wholesale book that is sold. That's the power of zero-inventory, on-demand printing & publishing. See additional "Product Details" below for more details and the fine print about how on-demand delivery works.

Free Marketing Support. While the Ultimate doesn't hold a candle to our One-Click Suites in terms of book marketing inclusions, it certainly out-shines the majority of our competitors in the self-publishing industry. A publication announcement press release will be composed and provided to you for distribution when your book is published. You'll also receive access to an ever-growing library of marketing e-books, tip sheets, whitepapers, and guides (all absolutely free), including:

* The Book Marketing RoadMap
* Top 15 Book Marketing Steps
* Navigating the Social Media Jungle
* The Book Marketing Guide
* Top National Contests & Awards
* 10 Rules for Hosting a Book Launch Party
* 10 Best Practices for your Responsive Author Webpage
* 10 Local Ways to Use your Free Author's Copies
* 5 Ways to Get Amazon Book Reviews
* 77 Book Marketing & Promotional Resources
* Top 15 Steps for Marketing your Book
* How to Make a Book Club Kit
* How to Market Your Book on Facebook
* How to Create a Press Kit
* How to Make a Boxed-Set
* How to Sell Autographed Books on Amazon
* Becoming an Amazon Bestseller
* 7 Tips for Highly Successful Interviews
* 7 Simple Steps to Succeed at Book Fairs

And, of course, our exclusive Book Marketing COACH provides creative assistance, coaching, and help via email for years after publication by providing genre-specific suggestions and help for non-fiction, fiction, spiritual, and children's books.

Responsive author webpage with social media integration. Ultimate clients also have the included option of recording an audio excerpt which automatically appears on the author's webpage in a "Media" section.

10 free paperback copies of your book when it is published (including FREE shipping within the continental United States. Then future orders can be purchased in quantities as low as five at a time (without those "service fees" the others charge, nor those 25-copy minimums), with the option of saving up to 50% on your own copies if you want to buy in bulk.