Truesource Publishing is your source for independent publishing. We publish books, comics, graphic novels, and generally anything that can be put into print. Stay Independent and get the full resources of publishing a book without having to self-publish your title and do it all on your own. We have three programs that you can use.
Trade Publishing.
Submit Your Book for Publishing! You submit your book, we evaluate it to see if we want to publish it. If we accept it, NO setup fees. We edit it. We print It, We market your book. We Share Your Book with the World!
Partners Program
We Publish Your Book. No Rejections, we publish your book. We partner with you so you do not have to self-publish your work. You pay the set up fee. We edit it. We market your book. We Share Your Book with the World!
Direct to Print.
You may not want to publish your book. You may just need printing services. We have direct to print services to fit your own publishing services. We can design it. We can edit. We can market your book to your audience.
TRADE PUBLISHING
This is also known as trade publishing. It’s the type of publishing, where the manuscript submitted to the publisher is reviewed and then selected for publishing. The publisher will design the cover, edit it, copyright it, market it, and distribute the book through book stores and book dealers. The publisher will assign a rep to represent the book and market the book with stores, libraries, and wholesalers as well as advertise it. Trade books are published for children, teenagers, and adults. They can be works of fiction or nonfiction, hardcover or paperback. Generally, trade publishing is the most high profile type of publishing as it is the most commercially focused. There are no setup fees or upfront chargers to the author. Everything is taken care of by the publisher, except when authors need copies of their book at a wholesale price. Authors will be charged for copies of their book at wholesale. Discounts on the on the book for wholesalers will be set at industry standards for proper trade publishing unlike small or vanity presses. The Discount is 55% off the retail price, which makes a real publisher in the industry.
Services Include.
- Editing
- Book Design ( Cover and Interior)
- Distribution
- Marketing
- Free Copy to the Author
PARTNERS PROGRAM
Here is how it works…You setup up your title with us and pay the setup fee of $ 85.00 ( Which includes a copy of the book . The prices are based on the page count of the book and whether it has illustrations or pictures in it or if the book is a color book with pictures or illustrations in it. Once you have done that you receive the same full service publishing as someone who published traditionally including the same type of discounts on the book. Your book is published. When you have sold 1,000 copies of the book, including purchasing your own book with your author discount then we will you back the same amount of money you paid us to set your title up because you have sold enough copies of the book to start you and your book on the road to success. That’s right, we will give you a rebate check for the setup fees you’ve paid. You can make your money back plus make royalties. The point of this program is to reward success. Of course, you still make your royalties from your books being sold and that starts when the first book is sold in a bookstore. You start making money from day one. You will also get the same services as Trade Publishers. We proofread the book. Copy editing is an extra service and we will be charged to the author. We help with book design (cover and interior). We will market the book just as we do for any other author. The author will get full distribution.
We cannot guarantee that a book will sell, but you should have the chance to sell your book and put into print. However, we are all about rewarding success and this is our way of doing it. There are books that we do not want to take a chance on for traditional publishing, but we still want toffer you the chance to publish your book through a great publisher, with excellent prices, and publishers your book correctly Vanity presses, like Publish America cannot do this and the only way to publish a successful book is to publish it right. The Partners Program gives you a chance to do that without having to be rejected by a publisher and make your money back when you set up your title. This is something vanity presses will not do and it also why we offer an alternative choice for success. The Partners Program is just one more option for publishing your book. Discounts on the on the book for wholesalers will be set at industry standards just like proper Trade Publishing unlike small or vanity presses. The Discount is 55% off the retail price, which makes a real publisher in the industry.
Services Include.
Proofreading
We proofread the book once, free of charge, It’s most spell checking and using a premium grammar software. More proofreading and editing will cost extra.
Book Design (Cover and Interior)
We can design a simple bookcover free of charge. More extensive graphic design will cost extra.
Distribution
All books receive the same level of full distribution as Trade Publishing
Marketing
All books receive the same level of marketing as Trade Publishing
Free Copy to the Author (Included with the setup fee)
You will receive a free copy of your book which is included in the setup fee of $85.00
DIRECT PRINTING.
Sometimes you don’t want to publish a book with full distribution. Sometimes you just need to print a book your own personal use or distribution like manuals. That is where Direct Printing comes in. This is for people who are just looking to have their books printed and not go through normal distribution channels. The same pricing, including setup fees and book sizes as for other publishing categories, still applies in Direct Printing. We can still help you with editing, design services, and most importantly the printing process, but you will have your own distribution. We also have the best prices on book printing.
- Editing ($100 to $500 Fee)
- Book Design ($25 to $50 Fee)
- Distribution (Call for Details)
- Marketing (Starting at $40)
- Free Copy to the Author
EDITING
- Copy Editing
Copy, in the publishing world, refers to the text. So, copy editing could just as easily be called text editing. It’s a word-by-word edit that addresses grammar, usage, and consistency issues. Copy editors will check for typos and spelling errors along with correcting grammar, language, and syntax errors. They will also pay particular attention to punctuation such as commas, semicolons, and quotation marks.
Editors work on a copy of the author’s manuscript, usually a Word file, using the track changes function and adding comments to explain any changes or make revision suggestions. The author can then go through each of the changes and accept or reject them one by one and make any revisions where necessary.
Only when the author is completely satisfied with the plot, story structure, characterization, settings, etc. is the manuscript ready for copy editing. And nobody, no matter how good, gets all that right with a first draft.
Individual services $75 to $999
**Depends on the type of book and word count.
- Proofreading
Proofreading gets its name from the “proofs” typesetters produce before the final print run. The text has been laid out into pages, complete with photos, diagrams, tables, etc. These used to be called galley proofs (and still are when printed), but in these days of electronic publications, they’re more commonly called uncorrected proofs and usually come as a PDF file.
At this point, the publisher (a company or an independent author) will have paid for someone – or worked hard themselves – to set the manuscript text into the book’s final format. That means it’s too late to make any major structural changes or delete paragraphs and sentences, as this has a knock-on effect in the subsequent pages. It can cost a lot of time and money to redesign the book after such major changes.
Proofreading comes at the end of the publication cycle. It’s the final check before the book is printed or, in the case of eBooks, before it is published and sent to distributors.
For this reason, proofreading is intended to pick up the final typos and spelling mistakes and to correct inconsistencies, like making sure the word “proofreading” is always spelled as one word and not “proof-reading” or “proof reading.”
In the case of printed books, proofreaders also look for awkward word splits at the end of a line and ensure there is no ugly single line left at the top of the page from the previous paragraph (known in publishing as a widow) or at the bottom of the page, which really belongs with the paragraph on the next page (orphan).
Proofreading is only done after the raw manuscript has already been edited. Before that, the text should have at least gone through…
Individual services $50 to $500
**Depends on the type of book and word count.
- Line Editing
Line editing is a more intensive structural edit that focuses on the finer aspects of language – the flow of ideas, transition elements, tone, and style. Line editors expand their efforts to suggest changes to make sentences crisper and tighter by fixing redundancy and verbosity issues, while improving awkward sentence and paragraph construction without a full rewrite. Editors will look at the manuscript using a holistic methodology with a review of key aspects of the manuscript: the narrative, vocabulary, structure, characterization, style, and development.
Individual services $60 to $700
**Depends on the type of book and word count
- Developmental editing
Development editing means the book gets a full, substantial, structural, developmental edit. This will often include everything that’s involved in proofreading and copy-editing, plus a detailed critique of the essential elements of the story (in the case of a novel), which include:
- Setting
- Timeline
- Characterization
- Plot
- Story structure
- Pacing
- Presentation
- Marketability
A developmental edit will come early in the publication process, while the author is still in the drafting stage. The author will have rewritten the manuscript a few times before it is ready for a developmental edit.
Not every book needs developmental editing from a professional editor. Feedback from competent beta readers or a discerning writing group can be enough to iron out all the wrinkles in the book’s structure.
Note that the words ‘competent’ and ‘discerning’ are key in that last sentence. That rarely means your family and friends, wonderful though they may be. You wouldn’t ask the average lawyer, sales director, or math teacher to repair your car, so it’s rarely a good idea to trust them with your life’s work.
As with copy editing, the editor may use track changes to make revision suggestions directly onto a copy of the manuscript, but the developmental edit will usually include a separate critique document detailing — sometimes chapter by chapter — the changes the author could make to improve the areas listed above.
Individual services $70 to $900
**Depends on the type of book and word count.
DISTRIBUTION
We offer full book distribution for Trade Publishing, the Partners Program, and eBook Publishing. We distribute through the largest Book Distributor in the world, Ingram Books. Our printer automatically distributes through Ingram Books so that your book is made available through retailers such as Barnes and Noble, Books a Million, Wal-Mart, Powell’s Independent Book Store and Amazon.com. Books will automatically be available online at these retailers, be we cannot guarantee that they will be available in stores. That is up to the retailer’s book buyers, but our titles are made available to them for their review. However, the best kind of distribution is online.
DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS
| Ingram Books
Baker and Taylor Amazon.com Amazon (All Channels) Bertram’s Books Anderson Merchandising Boo Club Network |
Cypher
Gardner Books Matthews Medical NACSCORPS Spring Arbor Hudson News Group BargainBooks.com |
Barnes and Nobles
Goodreads Books a Million Wal-Mart Starving Writers Books Target. eBay
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MARKETING
Truesource Publishing takes great pride in marketing your book within a unique book and digital world. We don’t market books the way we used to. Traditional media isn’t always the best way to market independent books. But we have a diverse marketing network that helps get your book to the right audience. We help get readers and more importantly, book sales. We have a great partnership with the authors when it comes to marketing that will help audiences know bout your book, find readers and increase sales, worldwide. Here is what we do for you.
ONLINE ADVERTISING
We focus on classifieds and marketplace ads for book lovers. Where ever you can advertise a book in online classifieds like eBay, Craig’s List, and marketplaces like OfferUp, Let It Go, Bonanza, Etsy, and any kind of market place. We find places that we can advertise online to people who are buying books.
BOOKSTORES
We do market to bookstores as a wholesaler. We cannot guarantee that your book will be widely distributed through bookstores because its an independent book, we will help you get books into bookstores because we publish your book correctly with the proper discounts. In addition, we can help set up consignment deals with Independent bookstores or used book stores.
BOOK CLUBS
Book Clubs are a great way to market your books to readers. There are lots of book clubs in the world, some big and some small, but they are clubs with readers who buy books and recommend books. We advertise to book clubs with promotions to help get them to buy your book. We even have our own book club network and a website that promotes your books.
BOOK REVIEWS
Book Reviews help promote books, but how do you get people to review your book on places like Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Goodreads, and even in publications. We have a service that helps you do that. We will get you book reviews. You will get some reviews when your book first comes out and we also help ensure that they are highly rated reviews that will help you get more sales.
INTERVIEWS
We help set up interviews for you to promote your book. From podcasts to video interviews, and written interviews, we will find media outlets that will help you promote your book. Media coverage is an important part to promoting your book.
PROMOTIONAL ITEMS
Want to help promote your book with promotional items such as bookmarks, wristbands, flyers, and business cards. You buy supplies from us to help promote your book. We are part of a printing company too, so we can help makes promotional items for you to promote your book. We have everything you need to promote your book.
BOOK TRAILERS
Want to make a Book Trailers? Trailers are not just for movies. Book Trailers can be just as help in promoting a book because it’s basically a commercial for the book. Let us help you make a simple book trailer for your book. We can make an advertisement for your book that will go viral. Maybe all books don’t need a trailer, but its just one more service we offer when marketing your book.
BOOK DESIGN
We design professional book covers for you. It’s free as part of Trade Publihing. We make simple, professional covers for those who choose the Partner Program. Our book covers are professionally designed. We have illustrators on staff that can design a cover, especially for graphic novels and fantasy or science fiction books. While we make simple covers for FREE. You can get a more detailed design for an extra charge. Our services start at $25.00. Book design is based on an hourly rate and we will quote you for out time.
No matter what kind of book you are publishing, we an design a professional cover because the first step in readers and retailers taking you seriously as an author is to have a professional book cover done. That is one of the biggest differences between professional publishing and self-publishing.