Personal Publishing Program

In keeping with its purpose to encourage and develop literary talent, CAL offers a Personal Publishing Program (PPP) where the author becomes his/her own publisher.

This program is designed to make authors of writers. No acceptance is needed. (We don't even read the manuscripts.) All profits accrue to the author.

CAL will serve as your printer, your typesetter, your cover artist, your editor, your fulfillment office, your bookkeeper, your webmaster, anything you wish. All on a fee-for-services basis. We can provide things like bar codes, copyright services, and more.

Most writers hire us as printers and/or typesetters. A smaller number buy other services of creation or promotion. We've printed more than 2,000 (and counting) titles for writers. References on request.

When we print a book, we print the number you order, send all the booksto you, and are finished with the project (unless you've retained us to do more).

PPP is basically a print-shop program, except you'll find (because of specialization and non profit status) that we're 30 to 50% less expensive than your home town printers. I recenlty got a quote from a printer who wanted $1,375 for the same job we did for $325.00.

For questions that remain un-answered here, e mail me at cal@americanletters.org

Our personal publishing program includes chapbook printing. A chapbook is defined as a book of 60 or fewer pages, self covered, saddle stapled in the spine, untrimmed. The enclosed prices should help you cost-out your project. But if it doesn't. Write, call or e mail. cal@americanletters.org The "standard" chapbook may not satisfy everyone, so we offer lots of options. We can get very fancy. For a sample chapbook send a 6 X 9 SASE with $1.59 postage affixed. Or just send $3.50 for shipping.

Book Pricing

Prices based on printing from your page formatted disk or R-W CD in MS Word, or Corel Word Perfect. saved in .rtf format. With #20 white paper and 8 point coated 1 side card stock, (white) perfect bound. Yes, we can prepare disk for you, but most writers with a computer can prepare their own. We charge $52.00 an hour for typesetting and disk manipulation with a $25.00 minimum. Most customers generally need a little disk manipulation (most use an hour or less)
We'll talk you through it if you need help.

Shipping not included. We accept Visa and MasterCard.

PRICE IS 2.5 CENTS PER PAGE X NO. OF PAGES + COVER X NO. OF COPIES + $150.00 SET UP FEE

Prices

One time set up fee: $200.00 for paperback, $250 for hardcover.

Then: $1.50 per full color paperback cover plus 2.5 cents per book page. Plus $3.00 handling fee per order plus shipping. For hardcover with full color dust jacket the cover cost is $13.50, all other per book charges are the same. Book must be 104 or more pages for hardcovering. Example 200 copies of a 200 page novel. Cost to set up $250.00, then 200 pages @ 2.5 cents per page, plus $13.50 for hardcover and dustjacket = 18.50 per book X200 = 3,700, plus set up fee makes a total of $3,950.00 for 200 copies. For more than 200 copies, write, savings are possible. Delivery within 10-12 days of final proof approval.

Example: 40 pages 2.5 cents per page = 1.00 + $1.50 per cover = $2.50 per copy. Plus handling fee of $3.00 for any number of copies. For an order of 100 copies, cost would be set up fee, $200.00, plus 2.50 per copy X 100 = $250.00. Plus $3.00 handling total $453.00 plus shipping. Your next 100 copies would be $253.00 plus shipping.

Minimum order $75.00 worth of books.

Prices subject to change without notice

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