Self-Published Authors and Publishers

It s time to get your book into print with our Novels4All

Independently Published Imprint

 

Fiction4All is pleased to announce our Novels4All imprint for all independent authors to get their book into print is proving to be popular!

 

There are a couple of limitations well there has to be. No one is going to pay to read a printed book of a couple of thousand words, and it is not even possible for Fiction4All to create a book that small. So we have set the minimum word count to 20,000 words.

 

Next, paperbacks created in our Novels4All imprint will ONLY be sold on our own sites so we can fulfil orders ourselves and not have the prospect of constantly chasing other organisations to come up with the books. We also don t want a warehouse full of books languishing there for years on end at huge cost!

 

So here is how the Novels4All imprint works.

 

There is now an option on the AUTHORS tab for you to opt into the Novels4All program. You can also join individual books if you prefer. By opting into the program, you are agreeing to our terms and conditions for creating paperback editions based on your digital books - more on that in a moment.

 

For those of you with a number of author profiles to manage, we also provide a nuclear option for opting in which allows you to opt all your authors and their existing books into the Novels4All program in one go. It s simple, it s quick, and any eligible books join the queue for our production process.

 

So what is an eligible book?

Essentially any book with a minimum of 20,000 words can be considered for a paperback. The eBook must also be set to a 70% royalty and thus have a minimum price of $2.99.

 

The opt-in process is non-reversible as once a paperback is produced the only way for it not to be sold is for the digital book to be unpublished. When you opt into the Novels4All program, our software will pick up any digital book already published for the author that meets our criteria.

 

In future, when any new book is submitted for an author who is opted into the Novels4All program, the software will flag that submission for future paperback creation.

 

So, what s the cost and what s the process?

The easy bit first - there is no cost to you - we make money when you make money. We actually think this could be the nail in the coffin for organisations that charge you, the author, to publish their books, which leaves none of the cost with the publisher and all the risk with the author. So far as Fiction4All is concerned, that is a big no-no these days.

 

The process is simple. We take your digital book and reformat it to our standard paperback format, which is a UK Format B size (12.9 * 19.8 cm). We create a professional standard paperback, laid out in a conventional manner but without using an ISBN - as we are only selling the paperbacks off our own sites the ISBN is not required and it cuts down the costs a lot.

 

Next we create a wraparound cover. The front will use the cover image of your supplied eBook, with a textured/coloured frame. The spine will use the same texture/colour as the frame and, provided the spine is wide enough, will also include the title and the author name on it. For smaller word counts this may not always be possible so the book will be created with a textured/coloured plain spine.

 

The back cover will contain the blurb from the eBook, and a title where there is space. The same texture/colour will be used as on the spine. We will also include the Novels4All imprint logo

 

And our printers will add a form of barcode on the right side of the back cover.

 

Fonts used for the spine will be Cambria Bold for the title and Cambria Bold Italics for the author name.

 

The colors/textures used will relate to the genres of the books. The themes will be as follows:-

 

Dark Blue General Fiction

Red or Black for erotica

 

The copyright in the book will be to the author name supplied in the eBook. Where the copyright on the eBook identifies a specific publisher, that will be referred to as Digital Book Published by and under that will appear This Paperback Edition published by Novels4All, the independently published imprint of Fiction4All .

 

Royalties?

Please see our document on royalties for information.

 

Pricing

The price of a paperback has to be set by Fiction4Al. We aim to price a book to provide a modest royalty after costs are taken into consideration. The prices on our sites are updated when we get notified that printing costs are increasing again - we have processes in place to handle this.

 

Where will my paperback be sold?

This depends on the genre of your book. We will sell a paperback on the same site we sell the digital book. For adult stories this will be A1AdultEbooks and for General Fiction and Nonfiction it will be Fiction4All.

 

So how do you get started?

Join our Novels4All program today from the Control Centre on the Self-Publishers and Publishers suite. Then just opt your author[s] into the program and we will start adding your books to the production process. We aim to produce up to 90 paperbacks a month at the moment, and we will start with the latest additions and new submissions, so for your older books please be patient as we expect there to be a HUGE take-up of this fantastic publishing option, so it is going to take a while to get everything you opt into the program into print.

 

Regards

Stuart

Fiction4all