The Star Program
Our innovative Star Program is an opportunity for iUniverse to identify, celebrate, and support authors who have achieved relatively high levels of editorial and bookselling success. In order to be eligible for the program, your title will be evaluated based on two key standards used by book professionals: editorial quality (Is it good?) and commercial success (Will it sell?).
How You Can Qualify for the Star Program:
Step 1: Publish your book through the Premier or Premier Pro publishing packages. Each of these packages offers a professional Editorial Evaluation, our primary assessment of the editorial quality of your manuscript. You may also purchase an Editorial Evaluation as an add-on service to the Select publishing package.
Step 2: If your book meets high editorial standards, it will receive the Editor's Choice designation. Only Editor's Choice titles are eligible for the Star Program.
Step 3: Sell 500 copies of your book (250 must be sold through retail channels).
Step 4: iUniverse will notify you when you qualify for Star status. Fill out the Star Program questionnaire and return it to iUniverse.
Step 5: The iUniverse Star Review Board will consider your application, asking each of the following questions during the selection process:
- Does your book have fresh, innovative content and style?
- Is your book in a genre with high sales potential?
- Do you understand your book's target audience and know how to reach it?
- Have early sales levels proven that your marketing techniques are indeed effective in reaching that audience?
- Are you willing and able to continue to generate customer demand for the title with support from iUniverse?
iUniverse will invite you into the Star Program only if we believe that further investment will help you receive broader recognition and greater commercial success.
The Benefits of the Star Program:
- Industry-standard discounts and full return status with book retailers.
- A professional cover reassessment, including the following:
- Revision of the back cover copy and author bio
- A new ISBN
- The addition of the Star logo
- A new front cover if needed
- A personal consultation with iUniverse editorial, marketing, and publicity professionals to plan the re-launch of the title.
- A professional edit, if necessary.
- Submission for a Kirkus Discoveries review.
- A feature on the iUniverse Web site.
Star titles that continue to exhibit exceptional levels of success are presented to industry representatives, including scouts, agents and traditional publishing houses.
iUniverse Bookstore
Publisher's Choice Books are appearing in brick and mortar Barnes & Noble stores across the country.
Star Books showcase both excellent editorial quality, and commercial success.
Reader's Choice Books have proven editorial success is marketable.
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