All-Inclusive
Book Publishing Services
You’ll receive the best publishing services available, to ensure your book has the reach and impact it deserves.
This service is designed for aspiring authors, and other professionals who want to publish a high-level professional book.
What You Get
FULL MANUSCRIPT EVALUATION
LINE EDITING
BOOK COVER DESIGN
DISTRIBUTION AND ROYALTY SETUP
EBOOK CREATION AND DISTRIBUTION
PAPERBACK DISTRIBUTION
OPTIONAL HARDCOVER PRINTING & MANAGEMENT
COPYRIGHTING AND CATALOGING
AUTHOR PHOTO
AUTHOR MARKETING MATERIALS
GRAPHIC INCLUSION
MARKETING STRATEGY
DIGITAL LAUNCH TOOLKIT
In addition to your First Week Promotions, you will receive a Digital Launch toolkit. This toolkit includes:
- Book Landing Page
- Email campaign created for your target audience
- Full Media Kit
BOOK LAUNCH AND PROMOTION
- First week promotion
- Complete strategy and templates to secure early reviews
- A full set of social media posts and graphics for launch week
- A scheduled podcast interview on you and your book
- A published excerpt from your book released during launch week
- Strategy and templates for you to leverage your network
- Consultation with our Author Marketing team to develop a custom plan for your launch and beyond
AUDIOBOOK CREATION AND DISTRIBUTION
FULL OWNERSHIP OF ALL RIGHTS AND ROYALTIES
How the PortableVoices Publishing Process Works
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I own all the rights to my book?
Yes. You own the copyright and all print and reproduction rights. You can do anything you want with your book.
What marketing comes with PortableVoices All-Inclusive Publishing package?
There are three goals of the marketing that’s included in the PortableVoices All-Inclusive Publishing package.
We will manage the logistics to run a Campaign that focuses on maximizing early sales, reviews, and rankings, all to build the foundation of early credibility for your book’s long term success.
We will also support you in promoting the book to your connections by creating social media graphics for the book, crafting a book announcement email, gifting free copies to your friends and family, and creating a strategy for you to get the support of influencers who you know.
By the end of the first week of your book release, your book should have a burst of early sales, a baseline of reviews, awareness among your network, and you should have a plan for how to continue to leverage it going forward.
In addition to your First Week Promotions, you will receive a Digital Launch toolkit that includes a book landing page, an email campaign created for your target audience, and a full media kit.
We do offer other add-on marketing packages as well.
Who designs the book covers? Do I get to give feedback on that?
Your book cover and manuscript interior layout will be designed by professional designers, but you have full creative control.
How much do you charge for copies? Will I be able to order personal copies at a discounted price?
We don’t charge you anything for copies. You get to buy copies at the print cost. At any time after the book is published, you can order copies in any quantities you’d like at this discounted price, direct from the printer (we don’t make money on copies).
Can you get my books into a bookstore?
Yes and no. This is a complicated answer, again because the publishing business is so weird.
Yes, we make your book available for order and sale in bookstores and retail outlets.
No, we do not automatically put your book in bookstores. This is because bookstores carry very few books, reserving their limited space for established authors or books from publishers who are paying for shelf space.
You generally need to sell at least 25,000 copies before bookstores become interested in carrying your book. That’s the bad news. The good news is that being in bookstores doesn’t really matter anymore. A book sitting on a shelf doesn’t sell in most cases. In terms of buyer behavior, most people who shop at bookstores also shop on Amazon or Jumia, so if they don’t see a book at the bookstore, they’ll just go to Amazon or Jumia. In other words, lack of bookstore distribution in and of itself doesn’t necessarily lose you very many sales.
The reality is, for almost all authors, being in a bookstore is purely about ego, and not about actual ROI. We don’t deny that going into a bookstore and seeing your book on the shelf is nice, but having a book in a bookstore does almost nothing in terms of sales or awareness. It is only a status object.
Why don't you take royalties? Doesn't that align our incentives?
No, it actually does the opposite. The best strategy to get a great book for you is to use the service-based model, where we are paid a fee and you own all rights and all royalties.
This is because under a service-based model we get paid for ensuring that your book serves your goals (such as getting speaking gigs or finding clients or creating influence), as opposed to a royalty-based model, where we are incentivized to focus only on selling copies (regardless of whether it serves your goals).
How do royalties work?
You own 100% of the royalties for your book.
Although PortableVoices doesn’t take any share of the book’s profits, there are some costs that don’t go directly in your pocket—namely, Amazon’s fees and printing costs.
For eBooks, Amazon takes 30% of your royalties and you take the other 70%. For paperbacks, Amazon takes 40% of the royalties, the printer gets approximately $3 to print the book, and the rest is yours. If you do hardcover, we’ll explain it all before you make any decisions.
Who is the publisher?
The published work shall bear PortableVoices’ logo on the front or/and back cover. You don’t have to use our imprint as your publisher. We can essentially create a new publishing company for you with any name you like. It’s completely up to you who the named publisher of the book is.
Do I get all the profits from my book?
Yes. We take absolutely no money from the sale of your book, and all accounts are set up in your name and under your ownership.