PUBLISHING CONSULTANCY
In addition to providing publishing services, our team New Vision Limited has been providing a world-class publishing consultancy service since 2015. We have the knowledge and expertise to quickly understand your situation and what you want to achieve with your book publishing project.
From printing to ebooks, from editing to marketing, from illustration to layout, we have the right information for you when you need it. Phone and skype publishing consultation is available during 9am to 1pm Monday, Thursday and Friday Pacific Standard Time. Otherwise we provide speedy responses via email and social media to our publishing consultancy customers.
What publishing topics can you cover?
We can advise independent authors and business owners on print and ebook publishing matters including:
- How to sell your ebook on major vendors like Apple, Amazon and Kobo (incl. software, technology, tax, exchange and bank fee considerations)
- Globally optimised ebook meta-data with book sales and marketing focus
- Advice about ISBNs, library registrations and book databases
- What would work best for you and your book, traditional or self-publishing
- What’s involved in self-publishing
- Writing, editing and book production advice
- Printing options and print procurement
- What’s involved in printed book design
- What’s involved in ebook conversion
- How do you distribute printed books and ebooks?
- How many will you need to sell and at what price (publishing cost benefits analysis)
- How to manage freelancers to produce a better book
What publishing brand should I use when I self-publish
We also advise and serve publishers on ebooks:
- Ebook quality assurance
- Ebook updates
- Ebook distribution (direct to publisher’s accounts via FTP and websites)
- Ebook development issues such as fixed layout vs reflowing
How much does it cost to have a publishing consultant?
Each round of advice, up to 2 hours, is USD $1800
Publishers can request our wholesale price list and see our Publisher Service page.
We know of many ways that different authors and publishers are able to achieve ebook distribution and/or global printed book distribution. The different options vary, and our mission will be to find what will be optimal for you. For expediency, please send the answers to these questions when you contact us.
Publishing consultation means different things for different people. It’s basically you getting expert advice from us. Our publishing consultants can cut to the chase, tell you exactly what you need to know, based on our experience of publishing more than 500 titles over the past few years.
How to write and publish a book
Publishing Consultation can include discussions by phone, face-to-face and electronic communication (email, skype, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc) regarding topics such as:
- Self-publishing
- Writing, editing and production advice
- Printing options and print procurement
- Hard copy and electronic book design
- Book distribution
- Book marketing, publicity and PR (basics)
- How to prepare a manuscript for publication
- Tips to better manage a self-publishing project in Amazon
- How to set up interactive ebooks with audio, video or other interactive forms and fields
- How to sell printed books and ebooks direct from your own website
- How to DIY book design, ebook conversion and book publishing
What We Can Enable You to Do
Print on Demand
One book or 1,000–print what you need and nothing more.
E-Book Distribution
One platform connects you to all the top players in digital distribution.
Color Printing
Vibrant, stunning colour for your cookbook, children’s book, graphic novel and more.
Expanded Reach
Access to more than seven billion readers across the world.
Most Popular Formats
More than enough formats to fit any and every genre. Why limit yourself? Go a little crazy.
More Marketing Options
Want to sell more books? This is your way to the top of the bestseller list.
What We Can Enable You to Do
If you would prefer to distribute your ebooks yourself, you may like to engage our publishing consultants to help get you started.
Since 2011, we have been developing accounts with prominent ebook vendors and managing data, sales reports and payments. There are many ins and outs and only experience can teach the best approach. We will be able to get to the bottom of what you need, what your financial and business set-up is, what your goals are and how this gels best with the self-publishing options that are available to you. We are on the coalface of publishing and are up-to-date with the many things in the industry that are changing.
We provide a consultation service to select customers who are committed to setting up accounts themselves.
What is included?
During your consultation, your book publishing expert will cover what you need to know about:
- Whether or not you should use an ebook aggregator
- Where to go to set up your ebook accounts
- What information, software, hardware you will need
- A heads up on some of the decisions you will need to make
- Tax registrations with overseas countries (e.g. the IRS, W8-BEN, etc)
- Territories, pricing and currency conversion questions
- How to utilise vendor back-ends to market the ebook
- What to expect from incoming payment (e.g. bank fees, sales reports, etc)
- What will the sales reports be like from each vendor?
- How safe will my ebook files be (to DRM or not)?
- Will my ebook be pirated and what should I do about it?
If you’re interested in utilising this service please contact us. We’ll start by asking for a few simple questions to help determine if you are set up properly to self-publish ebooks directly with vendors. If not, we will recommend an aggregation option that will work for you.
Price
$500 per hour (minimum 2 hours)
Each one includes 1–2 hrs of skype conferences, phone or email. Extra charge for face-to-face depends on location and time of day. Additional hours available at hourly consultation rate of $500
The time allowed for publishing consultation is a maximum and not an entitlement; it is not transferable to other services with us.
Timeframe: 3-14 days (please discuss your needs)
Ebook QA (Quality Assurance), File Validation and Technical Check
We can check your self-created ePub for readiness for publication.
So you’ve done it yourself! You’ve had a go. You’ve made an ePub and tested it on your device. It looks OK. You may have even used the IDPF ePub validator to make sure the coding is all done correctly, but you are not 100% sure it will be acceptable to the vendors you wish to load it to, or that it is done properly and optimally for the enjoyment and ease of your readers.
The Team at Amazon eBook Publisher can help!
If you have your own epub file it is important to have it tested for good functionality, specifically on the devices you intend for it to be read on.
This applies to reflowing ePub, fixed layout epub and KF8, interactive PDFs and more. As an aggregator we are familiar with the specifications for Apple, Amazon, Kobo, GooglePlay, Barnes & Noble Nook, and have also worked on projects for platforms intended for Adobe Digital Editions and BlueFire Reader,<br> which display the same ePub file differently to a tablet or app.
We charge a flat fee to analyse other people’s ebook files. This process involves us loading your ebook files onto our devices, validating them, checking if they pass the vendor requirements for the vendors of interest that you specify.
If you choose to have your ebook files analysed Amazon eBook Publisher will
- Load the epub to our devices and test run it
- Test the epub on device-simulators for major devices and apps relevant to your distribution method
- Run it through the epub validation check to ensure it is ready for professional publishing
- Check the code to ensure we believe Apple will accept it
- Provide a report/checklist of things we noticed that are either imperative or optional for you to change prior to publishing
Price
Per title (epub and KF8) $1400
Timeframe: 3-14 days (please discuss your needs)
This applies to reflowing ePub, fixed layout epub and KF8, interactive PDFs and more. As an aggregator we are familiar with the specifications for Apple, Amazon, Kobo, GooglePlay, Barnes & Noble Nook, and have also worked on projects for platforms intended for Adobe Digital Editions and BlueFire Reader,<br> which display the same ePub file differently to a tablet or app.
We charge a flat fee to analyse other people’s ebook files. This process involves us loading your ebook files onto our devices, validating them, checking if they pass the vendor requirements for the vendors of interest that you specify.
If you choose to have your ebook files analysed eBook Publisher will
- Load the epub to our devices and test run it
- Test the epub on device-simulators for major devices and apps relevant to your distribution method
- Run it through the epub validation check to ensure it is ready for professional publishing
- Check the code to ensure we believe Apple will accept it
- Provide a report/checklist of things we noticed that are either imperative or optional for you to change prior to publishing
Price
Per title (epub and KF8) $1400
Timeframe: 3-14 days (please discuss your needs)
Publishing Cost Benefits Analysis
Get the inside information that will arm you with the power to decide how viable your publishing project is, what price you need to set based on how many copies you expect to be able to sell and where, with what royalties. Includes a 30-minute advice session with a publishing consultant and 1 Cost Benefits Analysis report (PDF).
The figures are calculated estimates based on years of research and current industry information, including exchange rates, royalties, bank fees, charges from ebook vendors, and aggregation fees and commissions if any.
If you want to know answers to the following this is a must-have service:
- How much money will I make selling my ebook?
- What price should I sell my ebook for?
- How do I decide what ebook royalty option to choose?
- How do I choose an ebook vendor and/or aggregator that will suit me?
- How many copies of my book or ebook will I need to sell to start to profit?
We can also provide this service for print projects including offset printing projects and print-on-demand where we are the distributor and/or have access to all the information required.
Price
1 ebook, $1400
1 print-on-demand book, $1900
Timeframe: 3-14 days (please discuss your needs)
How does publishing consultation work?
Your publishing consultant will be best equipped to answer your questions if she knows more about you and your book. This will take time and so she would like to receive the files you are working with on your book and some more information from you and invoice payment prior to the first publishing consultation phone call.
After going through your information, your book publishing expert will work with you via phone, email or Skype during business hours PST 9.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday to get your self-publishing dreams to come true!
Feedback about our publishing consultancy services
“Hi Amanda, I called the phone number [you provided] and within 15 minutes I had an EIN assigned to me. Confirmation information will be received within 3 to 4 weeks. Very happy about this! I didn't think it would be that simple. Thanks for your help.”--Lisa E
“PublishMyBook.Online were fantastic in all aspects of the publishing journey ... I found their knowledge of the industry incomparable, and they were able to guide a novice writer like myself through the publishing process with immense patience. ... Writing the book is the easy part. What comes later can be challenging. PMBO make it all very easy!”—Michelle Montebello
“They understand this world of potential and possibilities and calmly and efficiently guide one through unfamiliar territory. They know what opportunities exist and how to make the most of them, suggesting ways to take advantage of and make the most of the various openings out there. I’m really glad to have their expertise and experience to help me navigate my way through the marketing world.”— Victoria Capper
Thank you so much for your support and efforts during this time. We really appreciate it and would never have realised our goal of launching our book without your help. Thank you.”—Abrams & Elliott