Author Services

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 Production - Small Marketing - Small Bookselling Small Publicity Campaigns

iUniverse offers all of the professional services you would expect from any traditional publishing house: editorial, design, production, marketing and publicity. What sets us apart from other self-publishing companies is that our services are developed and managed by industry veterans.

 

Evaluation Services 

Evaluation Services

The Editorial Evaluation is the cornerstone of our editorial services line-up. Industry freelance editors will assess your manuscript and offer you a comprehensive overview to help ensure that your title meets the basic requirements of a professionally published book.


For authors who purchase the Bookstore Premier Pro or the Premier Pro packages, we also include a marketing evaluation, which helps determine a book's market readiness and an author's commitment to helping make the book successful. While it is no concrete predictor of success, it does help determine if the book has some of the critical elements going for it to help make it commercially successful.

 Editorial Services

Editorial Services

Typos and grammatical errors are not the only mistakes that can keep your manuscript from being a quality publication. Our editorial lineup includes more than a dozen book editing services to lift the quality of your book to professional, marketable standards.

Core Editorial Services

Core editing services focus on improving the "nuts and bolts" of a book: grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, structure and continuity. Services include:


Advanced Editorial Services

Sometimes manuscripts need specialized attention that goes beyond grammar, spelling and punctuation improvements. Our experienced editors take an in-depth look at your book's content and other high-level stylistic considerations, including content, plot and pace. Services include:


Author Assistance Editorial Services

While all of our Editorial Services aim to assist authors, this new category of services takes an extra step, providing professional guidance to authors during the crucial revision stage, following a Core Editorial Service.

Quality Review Services include:

After you review and revise your edited manuscript, the Quality Review editor checks your work and corrects any new errors that arise.


Editorial Assistant Services Include:


Researching

Informational researchers will gather data, statistics and other information; and photo researchers and graphic artists are also available to help provide professional-looking artwork for your book.

Indexing

With iUniverse Indexing services, authors can maximize the usability of their nonfiction title for readers, book buyers, librarians, and reviewers. Services include:

Proofreading and Revisions

Our proofreading services include a comprehensive check for both mechanical errors—such as misspellings, missing words, and incorrect cross-references—and formatting issues with margins, word breaks, headings, and letter and word spacing.

Cover Copy Polish

With iUniverse Cover Copy Polishing, the ideas you provide to us allows us to create intriguing copy that can help you clinch the sale.

 

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Book Formats

Through digital print-on-demand (POD) technology, we can offer our authors three distinct formats for their books including:

Print Formats


Electronic Formats

 

 Design Services

Design Services

Our team will work with you—incorporating your photos, graphics, sketches and ideas—to create a professional book cover that beautifully represents your book's contents.

Cover Design

When you publish a book with iUniverse, our design team will work with you to create a unique book cover that exceeds your expectations. Services Include:

Stock Images

All books published via the iUniverse standard publishing packages receive custom-designed covers, produced in full color. Stock Images Services include:

 

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Production Services

Preparing your manuscript for submission can be done as simply as letting us take care of getting it ready to be published

Pre-Manuscript Services

Post-Page Layout Services

iUniverse allows you to make changes to your book after the manuscript has been laid out by our designers. Charges will be applied.

 

 Marketing & Publicity Services

Marketing Services

If you want your book to sell, you’ll want to do more than just hope for the best. Our selection of promotional products and services allows authors to build a dynamic platform for effective bookselling and promotion. Create your marketing plan and materials with our simple step-by-step tools.

Audio Formats

iUniverse Publishing is opening the doors to new readerships and markets for your book with the introduction of our audiobook format. Audiobooks reach a growing niche market of book lovers who enjoy listening to well-written stories and multitasking individuals who love to read but don’t have time to pore over physical pages of a book.


Internet Marketing

The Internet is the fastest-growing marketplace for books. As a published author, you’re in a great position to take advantage of the Web as a powerful marketing and sales tool. Services include:


Video and Book Videos

Through this unique and exciting way of marketing your book, your professional video book video or author video interview will catch your readers’ attentions as your story unfolds before their eyes. Choose one of our competitively priced options:

Hollywood Book-to-Screen

iUniverse can make your book available to agents, producers, directors, writers and actors through multiple new services available to our authors.


Radio Services

Have you ever considered how a radio interview might affect your book’s marketing plan? If the answer is yes, then iUniverse can make your voice available on the airwaves to help you reach new audiences and further your cause.

 

Publicity Services

Get your book noticed from a unique platform created by our publicity and media services. Publicity services include:

Publicity Campaigns

Through five publicity campaign options, iUniverse connects you with a professional publicist who will help you build and maintain a marketing platform for an extended period of time.

Advertising

Statistics show that authors who actively market and promote their works sell more books. We offer a wide array of promotional services to help your book get the attention it deserves.

Book Signings and Book Galleries

Through iUniverse Book Signings and Book Galleries services, promoting your book to thousands of show attendees around the globe has never been easier. Your book will be displayed at the show and in the show catalog.

 

Reader's Digest Marketing Bundles

Big things come in small packages.

This holds true for Reader’s Digest. That—and the fact that it boasts of a global readership of over 100 million with a pass-along rate of 3.8—mean this is definitely not one to belittle.

 

Bookselling Services

Bookselling Services

Once your book is published, we will make your book available for order online and online retail outlets worldwide. Our bookselling promotional services provide you the opportunity to actively promote your book.

Bookstore Essentials

These services will make your book even more attractive to bookstores:

Bookselling Promotions

iUniverse has established great options for you to choose from when deciding on the best promotional mix for you and your newly published book. Services include:

Registration


As you make your work available to the public, you want to make sure you have the appropriate protection. These services provide that protection: