Wonder

Book Publishers

Delivered February 16, 2020. Contributor: Shannon L.

Goals

To identify top publishers that offer editing, printing, public relations, and distribution to all book stores for the purposes of publishing a memoir.

Early Findings

Early research shows that there are only a few publishers that offer all requested services (editing, printing, public relations, and distribution). Three that were found during early research are Lulu, Bookbaby, and BookPrinting.com. 
Lulu Lulu Publishers is one of the oldest self-publishing companies and a "popular distributor of digital and print books."
The services it offers include publishing, printing, distribution, editing, cover design, and book marketing.
Lulu charges 20% commission books sold through its marketplace. Partner retailers would charge their own commission.
Bookbaby Bookbaby sells books through its own bookstore and distributes to other retailers as well.
The services it offers include publishing, printing, editing, distribution, cover design, interior design, and marketing.
Sales of ebooks through Bookbaby's bookstore earn 85% royalties but printed books earn between 10% and 30% royalties.
BookPrinting.comBookPrinting.com has been helping independent authors publish books since 2006.
The services it offers include printing, cover design, interior layout, distribution, ebook conversion, editing, and marketing.
 Royalties vary based on distribution. 

Proposed next steps:

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As the initial research found three publishers that offer all requested services (editing, printing, public relations, and distribution), we recommend continued research to identify 4-5 additional publishers that offer these services. For each publisher, we will provide the name, a link, its services, and royalties.

Additionally, following the identification of the additional publishers (for a total of 7-8 publishers), we will provide a breakdown of how each publisher gets paid, how much will need to be invested on your own (the cost of doing business with each publisher), 2-3 titles of best-selling books they have published, 1-2 editors these publishers work with and 2-3 best-selling books they have edited (each).