Got Book?

Got a manuscript written and can’t wait to get it published? Thinking of by-passing the New York publishing cartel for all too many good reasons and turning it into the book you want it to be? Want to keep it in print indefinitely, not just when the publisher feels like it? Want to use 21st Century technology instead of 15th Century, but still want a book you can feel, pick up, turn pages, smell?
What you want is the author’s one-stop specialist which will prepare your book for publication in all the modern formats, submit it to the distribution market of today, and keep it there! And ensure you, not the distant publishing conglomerate, get the maximum return.

How Do Books Get Out?

Since Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1450, writers have paid to have books printed and then sold them. Along the way, entrepreneurs have sold books for the writers, financed the typesetting, printing and binding, covered the storage of the large press runs required to reduce the price per copy to an attractive level, responded to orders and liquidated the inventory. Finally, in the 19th Century, those who did everything but write became known as publishers. The ideal was the “Gentleman Writer” who would concentrate on his spiritual craft; the publisher would handle the more sordid aspects from the editing down to the hawking at book fairs. Book publishing was on the factory model. Like most factory models, old- style publishing, symbolized by the New York “old boy” cartel, was broken by the introduction of computer typesetting technology in the 1960s and the dot-com on-line distribution revolution of the 1990s.

Why On-Demand Books?

Why are established writers, often with best-sellers under their belts, abandoning the New York cartel (often with diatribes of bitterness followed by glee at the fate of their erstwhile masters)?
Money is certainly an important part of it. The bloated management bureaucracies and padded union jobs running antiquated machinery drained a good portion of the small profits in most publishing and somewhat larger profits in mass-market best-sellers. Then there were agents, big bookstore chains to cajole (to provide dumps in prominent positions), literary conventions and salons, etc.

But control may well be the biggest issue. By using lean, mean, computer typesetting and layout, layers of buggy-whip labor and top-hat and spats management are eliminated — saving money, but more importantly, restoring control to the writer. No warehouses with crates of moldering books in this new world; now all that are needed are electronic files stored in discs. When a book is produced and listed in the Ingram catalogs, it appears as available in the new behemoths of bookselling, Amazon and Barnes& Noble.com. When ordered, the precise number required are produced on the spot.

Why Beverly Hills Publishing?

Authors today want control. They want what they worked so hard on to go to readers as close to that as possible. If that means they get to keep more of the money from retail sales, all the better. Few people with experience in this new publishing exist — and they now work for Beverly Hills Publishing. They know what authors want and how to deliver it. As a writer who submits her or his manuscript to RoyMax, you will find you have control not only up to the point where the final professional layout file, equal or superior to anything from New York publishing houses, goes to the printer, but you will know exactly what it will cost to revise or alter a book after publication, and have the power to do it!

Maximum control for authors.
Maximum efficiency by the most modern technology and structure. Maximum distribution and availability of your books in the big booksellers and most popular catalogs. Minimum initial costs and minimum possible charges for professional typesetting, cover and interior art, editing by long-time professional editors who work for you, not the other way around. Beverly Hills Publishing handles all the hassle, eliminates the old publishing “factory,” and leaves you to be the Gentleman — or Lady — Writer. To sit back and collect maximum royalties, call us now!

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