All packages below are customizable and the final amounts will vary based on word or page count, size of the book, shipping costs, and so on.
Bulk Books with no customizations
(no custom cover, no custom foreword, etc)
- Package 1: 100 books — $850
- Package 2: 500 books — $3,000
- Package 3: 1,000 books and up — $5 each
Customizations:
- Custom cover for your edition of the book: $500
- Custom foreword (you write) for your edition of the book: $300
- Custom foreword (we write) for your edition of the book: $2 a word.
Ghost Writing:
Written by a published author–NOT A WORD BY AI
- Written in coordination with you (shared byline): $1.25 a word
- Written completely by us: $3 a word (includes frequent consults)
Other Publishing Services
Want your book printed, produced, or published?
We’ve been doing it for 20 years! All our rates and more information is available on our online retail site at Gutenbookpress.com.
Authors know how to write the book, but they don’t know how to do all the other stuff! That’s where Gutenbookpress.com comes in!
Cover design? Yes. Title set up with a printer? You bet! Distribution to Amazon? And how. Ebook creation? Absolutely. Audiobook? Well within the realm of possibility!
And if you the author are paying for it, you don’t have to worry about anyone on our end telling you “No!”*
To have someone at Gutenbookpress.com contact you, use the form on this page.
Here are our plans:
Platinum
$5,000
Includes:
- Consulting — working with the author to develop and implement a plan of attack
- Cover design and setup
- Manuscript set-up
- Minor editing services
- E-book creation
- Audio book creation (add $500)
- Distribution to all online book retailers
- Featured listing on the Gutenbookpress.com website – forever
- Active marketing of the title by GutenBookPress
- Author receives, at minimum, 50% royalty on the title
- Author retains the copyright to the work
Gold
$3,150
Includes:
- Consulting — working with the author to develop and implement a plan of attack
- Cover design and setup
- Manuscript set-up
- Very minor editing services
- E-book creation
- Audio book creation (add $1,000)
- Distribution to all online book retailers
- Featured listing on the Gutenbookpress.com website – for 1 year
- Active marketing of the title by GutenBookPress
- Author receives, at minimum, 30% royalty on the title
- Author retains the copyright to the work
Silver
$1,150
Includes:
- Consulting — working with the author to develop and implement a plan of attack
- Cover design and setup
- Manuscript set-up
- E-book creation
- Audio book creation (add $1,500)
- Distribution to all online book retailers
- Featured listing on the Gutenbookpress.com website – for 6 months
- Light marketing of the title by GutenBookPress
- Author receives, at minimum, 30% royalty on the title
- Author retains the copyright to the work
Small Print
* We reserve the right to decline a manuscript for any reason; porn, for example, is out of the question.
