WRITERSGRAM PUBLICATIONS

PUBLISHING
PROPOSAL

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Publishing Charges
Rs. 7,500 (black & white interior)
Rs. 12,500 (colored interior)
(Explained in the next section)

To stay ahead and firm in this competitive industry, we are

committed to provide cutting edge quality in each aspect of your
book. While most of the costs are met by us in-house, there are
certain aspects for which you need to pay a charge. The publishing
charges we take are one-time, which means you do not have to pay
anything else for the services as mentioned below.

Book Type
In publishing language, a book can be a black and white book or a colored book. Further it can be a plain text book or it may
contain images. Publishing charges differ for all four combinations, however we have consolidated them into just two, which are
as follows:

1. Black and White Interior (Rs. 7,500) 2. Colored Interior (Rs. 12,500)

- In this category, your book can have a black and white
interior. It may have either text or images or a combination of
both, but black and white. Further, the book can be of upto
300 pages. The publishing charges shall be revised for a size
greater than 300 pages.
- In this category, your book can have a colored interior. It may
either have text or images or a combination of both which can
be colored as well. Further, the book can be of upto 100 pages.
The publishing charges shall be revised for a size greater than
100 pages.

Whichever category it may be, the cover of the book shall be full covered or black and white, as per your choice.

Also, all other services shall remain the same in respect of both the categories.

Legal Aspects
We shall be signing a publishing agreement which shall cover detailed terms and conditions
to secure your as well as our interests. Further, two important aspects which authors most
commonly inquire about are:

1. ISBN Allocation
- We provide ISBN for all our books. It is free of cost and adds authenticity and value to your
book.

2. Copyrights
- All the copyrights of your book remain with you.
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Editing
Stage Zero

Readers always expect an error free book. As an author, more than as a

responsibility, it is your passion to deliver the best to your readers. And as a
publishing house, it is our goal to make that happen. Thus, we expect the
manuscript you send us to be in a certain format, to be properly edited by
the author atleast once so that there are no preliminary first hand mistakes.

Stage One Stage Two

We send your book to a review panel which consists of authors/ bloggers/ writers/ This stage is copy-editing, which is the
language teachers. Once they tell us about the content, its structure, the storyline, the process of making a book grammatically
timeline, the characters, the overall image, our team decides whether further editing correct. Our editors shall review the book
related to any such aspect is required or not. Accordingly, we shall communicate the for spellings, grammar, punctuation and
same to you. The decision to work upon such aspects rests with you. In case you feel you suggest the changes to you which you
require any help in working upon such changes or in completing any part of the book, it shall be able to accept or reject. We are
shall be arranged at an extra cost. committed to make your book as error
free as possible, however we believe it'll
always be our combined effort and
responsibility. This is covered in the
publishing charges and no extra charges
are to be paid by you.

Designing Review
Interior Layout
We do not believe in restricting the number of rounds
We set the interior of your book as per the the top-notch industry
of edits. We shall keep making changes to your book,
standards followed as per the type of your book. A good interior is the one
be it about the content, interior or cover, till
which makes it easy and interesting for the reader to read the book, and
everything is as you require it to be. We shall provide
our solutions are aimed at achieving the same.
unlimited rounds of review till the time our services
Cover Design satisfy you.

The hard truth is- 90% of the readers judge a book by its cover. Well, to
resolve this and create the best first impression on the reader, we offer
premium cover designing with the help of our large collection of million of
images, graphics, fonts and most importantly ideas and zeal to create
better and better.
At each step in the designing and other processes as well, you can provide
your valuable inputs to make the entire process more participative so that
the end result is exactly as per what you envisioned in the beginning,
We do digital proofreading of the book to make sure
there are no errors left in respect of formatting or
otherwise.
However, we request author as well to take time
during the final proofing to make sure that there are
no errors in the book.
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Inventory Author Copies

Your book never runs out of stock with us The feeling of holding your book in your
hands always remains fresh, no matter it
With us, you never have to worry about out-of-stock situations. We provide is your 1st book or the 10th. We shall
unlimited inventory support. So, be it 500 copies or 5000 copies, we will provide you 7 complimentary copies (3 if
fulfill all the demand at no extra cost, without any delay. Our printing press the book is colored) During the entire
has pioneered ultra-short-run printing which makes this possible. duration of our agreement, the book
shall always be available to you at the
cost price itself.

Distribution Sales & Royalty

Your book will be listed as a paperback on Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal. We We provide an online dashboard so that
are partnering with other channels like PayTm, Infibeam soon. Depending you can track sales of your book. We
upon the pace and volume of sales, the books are taken up in the offline provide 100% royalty out of the profits
stores, libraries, etc. We have certain extended distribution tie-ups which of the book.
take books to offline places like events, donation drives, etc. Currently, we
Rs. 30
are providing international availability of only English Titles through
amazon.com. However, if there are people whom you want to send your 100% of Profit Royalty
book abroad, we shall arrange for the same. As an e-book, we list your book Packing & Misc.
on Google Play Books. Costs Rs. 10

Printing Cost - Rs. 60

Amazon/ Flipkart Commission

Marketing & Support @ 50% - Rs. 100

Selling Price Rs. 200

Let's talk about elephant in the room, marketing!
Example of royalty calculation

The publishing charges we mentioned cover four weeks of premium

marketing. This includes one week of pre-launch marketing, two weeks We understand the efforts
of post-launch marketing and one week thereafter. you put in writing your book,
This takes in the form of premium book posters, teaser videos, author and thus we commit
interview, book-blog, creative mockups etc. ourselves to bring out the
To reach out to readers at large, we use our social media strength with book in the shape you dream
reach of over 2 million. Apart from this, we send book campaign emails of. We have designed our
to targeted people as a part of our email marketing plan. processes in a way to ensure
To boost sales, we keep participating in events like Amazon Great India maximum participation from
Sales, Flipkart Big Billion Days etc. author's end so that it
remains a fulfilling and
However, it does not ends here. Our post publishing support never ends,
satisfying experience.
never ever. From time to time, we run revival campaigns for our books and
as and when necessary, we run sponsored advertisements as well.

The average time taken to publish a book is 1 - 4 months, depending upon your book.