PAPERBACK EDITIONS

This page was last updated January 2025

Fiction4All has 2 ways to sell your paperbacks.

First - Our online shop

Second - Direct Sales from our printers through their own marketing catalogue - this does not apply to adult content

Historically our paperbacks used a standard Format B layout.

That is12.9 cm wide x 19.8 cm tall.

We are now including a more standard US format of

5.5 x 8.5 inches

This requires a word count of at least 20000 words (and ideally 30000 to 150000 words) to provide a decent sized book.

We aim to get paperback editions created within 4 weeks of the digital version going on sale. As soon as a paperback is created it is available on our sites for ordering.

All general fiction and nonfiction books will be created at our printers with an ISBN so they can be included in their marketing catalogue and thereby achieve global sales from their marketing catalogue. We cannot add any adult books to the printer s marketing catalogue so these are created without an ISBN and can only be sold on our sites.

If you have older titles in our imprints that are not yet in print or which have been assigned an SKU for a past print edition, we will assign ISBN numbers where the book can be included in the printer s marketing catalogue. This excludes ALL erotica content. This will take time as we have about 1000 such titles to consider so please be very patient! We will prioritise authors who are still writing for us and those in regular communication with us.

For non-UK customers buying from our own sites we ship books direct from our printers who have print shops in the US, UK and Australia.

To allow authors to decide what is appropriate for them, we have the following options:

1) Author decides not to have any paperbacks published.

2) Author opts into our own paperback program

ROYALTIES

Please see our royalties guide for information.

If you are an author using our full distribution package you will automatically be included in our paperback program for all eligible titles. If you are using our partial distribution package you can opt in for any eligible book if you wish to from the Profiles section of the Control Centre.