FAQ
ABOUT BOOK JOLT
How has print on demand (POD) publishing changed the book industry?
There is a whole new evolution in publishing, it is not the same industry it was 5 years ago and in fact it is changing every year. Times have also changed on how consumers buy books. Bookstores are suffering because the way people are buying books has changed. Just about everybody that buys books in the U.S. has Internet access. So there are now many smart authors who are selling thousands of books using the Internet. The bookstore model has changed to the Internet model. Book Jolt uses both methods of producing a book, offset printing and Print-on-demand. The benefit of Print-on-demand is that it makes it possible to print books one at a time. Books are digitized and stored in our supplier’s digital library to be printed as required to fill orders. This takes the risk out of printing a large number of books and makes production affordable for the average author. Print-on-demand also offers authors a unique way to import and export titles (particularly into North America and Europe) with virtually no risk and a greatly reduced cost.
What are the different production steps for an authors book and what is the authors interaction as their book progresses to final printing?
The production process in our Basic, Advanced, and Premium Publishing Packages is as follows:
- We have an author’s production call with you and 2 members of our team. This call is usually 60 minutes in length. We discuss your vision of your book, explain production dates and talk about marketing.
- Production starts with creation of two or three cover designs (depending on your package). The designer will then send you the cover PDF. you make any revisions at this point.
- Once your cover has been approved, we will start on the interior. The reason we do the cover first is that it dictates the typefaces and design of your overall look of your book. The designers will design the first 30 pages of the interior and send you a PDF by email for your approval.
- As soon as you approve the first 30 pages the design will complete the interior. A completed PDF will be sent to you for your changes and approval. Now is the time to do any corrections.
- Once we know the exact number of pages of your book, the cover designer will make a complete cover wrap (Front, Back covers as well as the spine). It will be sent to you for your final approval.
- When we receive your final OK you will receive your complimentary printed books within 10-14 days.
Is Book Jolt like a vanity press?
Print-on-demand publishers are often confused with vanity printers. Vanity book publishers do not pay royalties, or distribute books, plus they don’t provide marketing or promotional support for the authors. They are printers and make their money on selling you books.
Book Jolt is a publisher we want our authors to succeed – their success is our success! Again we print using both printing methods, Print-on-demand and traditional offset methods depending on the sales of the authors books. Unlike vanity press we do pay royalties, and are constantly having our ear to the Internet discovering better ways to for our authors to sell more books.
Why does Book Jolts bookseller policies encourage the sales of our self published book authors?
Book Jolt offers a full trade discount along with excepting returnable books from booksellers. Self-publishers who don’t have these policies in place find that bookstores will never order books from them. This cost Book Jolt hundreds of dollars per year but we are willing to do it to get into retail sale space.
If your book is a specialty niche subject you will find there are certain stores that specialize in that niche and these are potential outlets. Certain corporations that fit your books speciality would be interested in in the book to distribute to their customers.
Book Jolt makes our profit from selling books. it’s important to us that your book sells. We will do whatever we can to see that that happens.
What if an author does not have an email?
If you have no email Book Jolt will make sure that you get one and we will set it up for you. If not we will communicate by mail and phone.
AUTHOR
The production process in our Basic, Advanced, and Premium Publishing Packages is as follows:
- We have an author’s production call with you and 2 members of our team. This call is usually 60 minutes in length. We discuss your vision of your book, explain production dates and talk about marketing.
- Production starts with creation of two or three cover designs (depending on your package). The designer will then send you the cover PDF. you make any revisions at this point.
- Once your cover has been approved, we will start on the interior. The reason we do the cover first is that it dictates the typefaces and design of your overall look of your book. The designers will design the first 30 pages of the interior and send you a PDF by email for your approval.
- As soon as you approve the first 30 pages the design will complete the interior. A completed PDF will be sent to you for your changes and approval. Now is the time to do any corrections.
- Once we know the exact number of pages of your book, the cover designer will make a complete cover wrap (Front, Back covers as well as the spine). It will be sent to you for your final approval.
- When we receive your final OK you will receive your complimentary printed books within 10-14 days.
How much say or input does an author have on their book?
We will provide you detailed instructions on getting your vision across to the team member working on your book, video or website. This will give you ample opportunities for author input as we progress throughout the production of your book, video or website. This is your book and we want you to be happy with it. Your input will show in every step of production.. Understanding that in your chosen package there is allotted a certain amount of production hours. If that is exceeded (which seldom happens) there will be additional charge of $50 per hour.
Can an author make changes to a book or ebook during proofing stage?
Text, grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors caught during final proofing stage of your print book can be changed during proofing stage. A allotted correction time of two hours is allowed for corrections in a print book (additional time is charged at $50 per hour),
On your ebook proofing stage there is no time allotted for corrections. If an author makes changes at this stage the author pays an additional set-up fee of $149.
What is the most important marketing strategy to get if I don’t have a large marketing budget?
If you’re up author on a tight marketing budget the one thing that you definitely want is a authors website. it’s going to be the hub of anything that you do online.
What if an author does not have an email?
If you have no email Book Jolt will make sure that you get one and we will set it up for you. If not we will communicate by mail. And phone.
Will Book Jolt suggest other marketing strategies that will work for me?
Book Jolt will make suggestions for possible strategies that will work well with the niche that you’re in. The author is not under any obligation to make any additional purchases.
What if an author does not like suggestions made by Book jolts marketing team
An author is under no obligation to use any strategy that is suggested to him. The team member working with the author has had a lot has had years of experience working on the Internet any suggestions made to him would be because of experience knowing what wouldWould work well what would possibly work well for the author.
AUTHOR WEBSITE
What is the most important marketing strategy to get if you are on a tight budget?
If you’re up author on a tight marketing budget the one thing that you definitely want is a authors website. it’s going to be the hub of anything that you do online.
What was the best strategy used to promote your book?
Number one answer my Authors Website.
BOOK CHAT
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BOOK SALES
How has Print on demand publishing changed the book publishing industry?
There is a whole new evolution in publishing, it is not the same industry it was 5 years ago and in fact it is changing every year. Times have also changed on how consumers buy books. Bookstores are suffering because the way people are buying books has changed. Just about everybody that buys books in the U.S. has Internet access. So there are now many smart authors who are selling thousands of books using the Internet. The bookstore model has changed to the Internet model. Book Jolt uses both methods of producing a book, offset printing and Print-on-demand. The benefit of Print-on-demand is that it makes it possible to print books one at a time. Books are digitized and stored in our supplier’s digital library to be printed as required to fill orders. This takes the risk out of printing a large number of books and makes production affordable for the average author. Print-on-demand also offers authors a unique way to import and export titles (particularly into North America and Europe) with virtually no risk and a greatly reduced cost.
Why does Book Jolts bookseller policies encourage the sales of our self published book authors?
Book Jolt offers a full trade discount along with excepting returnable books from booksellers. Self-publishers who don’t have these policies in place find that bookstores will never order books from them. This cost Book Jolt hundreds of dollars per year but we are willing to do it to get into retail sale space.
If your book is a specialty niche subject you will find there are certain stores that specialize in that niche and these are potential outlets. Certain corporations that fit your books speciality would be interested in in the book to distribute to their customers.
Book Jolt makes our profit from selling books. it’s important to us that your book sells. We will do whatever we can to see that that happens.
Authors answer to what was the best strategy used to promote your book?
Number one answer my Authors Website.
Does an author get discounts on books they purchase? What about authors royalties?
Number one answer my Authors Website.
BOOK TRAILER/VIDEO
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DESIGN/PUBLISHING QUESTIONS
What are the different production steps for an authors book and what is the authors interaction as their book progresses to final printing?
The production process in our Basic, Advanced, and Premium Publishing Packages is as follows:
- We have an author’s production call with you and 2 members of our team. This call is usually 60 minutes in length. We discuss your vision of your book, explain production dates and talk about marketing.
- Production starts with creation of two or three cover designs (depending on your package). The designer will then send you the cover PDF. you make any revisions at this point.
- Once your cover has been approved, we will start on the interior. The reason we do the cover first is that it dictates the typefaces and design of your overall look of your book. The designers will design the first 30 pages of the interior and send you a PDF by email for your approval.
- As soon as you approve the first 30 pages the design will complete the interior. A completed PDF will be sent to you for your changes and approval. Now is the time to do any corrections.
- Once we know the exact number of pages of your book, the cover designer will make a complete cover wrap (Front, Back covers as well as the spine). It will be sent to you for your final approval.
- When we receive your final OK you will receive your complimentary printed books within 10-14 days.
How much say or input does an author have on their book?
We will provide you detailed instructions on getting your vision across to the team member working on your book, video or website. This will give you ample opportunities for author input as we progress throughout the production of your book, video or website. This is your book and we want you to be happy with it. Your input will show in every step of production.. Understanding that in your chosen package there is allotted a certain amount of production hours. If that is exceeded (which seldom happens) there will be additional charge of $50 per hour.
Will Book Jolt suggest other marketing strategies that will work for me?
Book Jolt will make suggestions for possible strategies that will work well with the niche that you’re in. The author is not under any obligation to make any additional purchases.
EBOOK
Can an author make changes to a book or ebook during proofing stage?
Text, grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors caught during final proofing stage of your print book can be changed during proofing stage. A allotted correction time of two hours is allowed for corrections in a print book (additional time is charged at $50 per hour),
On your ebook proofing stage there is no time allotted for corrections. If an author makes changes at this stage the author pays an additional set-up fee of $179.
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EDITING
Is a Chapter Assessment required?
No – but highly recommended (and FREE). You will hear about any editorial concerns which are noted and where they appear. We check the grammar, punctuation, capitalization, syntax as well as your spelling and word choice. From this assessment we recommend the level of editing.
When you download our publishing agreement you will see an order form included in the material. In the list of products and services available check Chapter Assessment (FREE) and we will get one chapter to an editorial team member who will send you your assessment in two to three weeks.
Why use Book Jolt for my book editing?
The lead members of the team at Book Jolt have been editing books since 1975 ( that’s 44 years!). You have worked on your book for hours, days, months, even years. It’s time to let a professional give you an honest opinion. At the very least let us give you a Chapter Assessment which is Free. As far as all our editing packages we will give you more than you pay for. We have authors that sing our praises when it comes to editing.
Can an author make changes to a book or ebook during proofing stage?
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Authors were asked what would you do different when you publish your second book?
The majority, over 77%, of second time authors say, “This time I am using an professional editor
MARKETING
What is the most important marketing strategy to get if you are on a tight budget?
If you’re up author on a tight marketing budget the one thing that you definitely want is a authors website. it’s going to be the hub of anything that you do online.
Will Book Jolt suggest other marketing strategies that will work for me?
Book Jolt will make suggestions for possible strategies that will work well with the niche that you’re in. The author is not under any obligation to make any additional purchases.
What if an author does not like suggestions made by Book jolts marketing team?
An author is under no obligation to use any strategy that is suggested to him. The team member working with the author has had a lot has had years of experience working on the Internet any suggestions made to him would be because of experience knowing what wouldWould work well what would possibly work well for the author.
What was the best strategy used to promote your book?
Number one answer my Authors Website.
Why does Book Jolts bookseller policies encourage the sales of our self published book authors?
Book Jolt offers a full trade discount along with excepting returnable books from booksellers. Self-publishers who don’t have these policies in place find that bookstores will never order books from them. This cost Book Jolt hundreds of dollars per year but we are willing to do it to get into retail sale space.
If your book is a specialty niche subject you will find there are certain stores that specialize in that niche and these are potential outlets. Certain corporations that fit this speciality would be interested in in the book to distribute to their customers.
Book Jolt makes our profit from selling books. it’s important to us that your book sells. We will do whatever we can to see that that happens.
MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
“I think that POD gives new authors the best avenue to get there books it to the public”
“Love that I don’t have to stockpile books and my publisher takes care of all the shipping of my books.”
“If you are successful in self-publish arena you definitely attract agents.”
“Maintaining all my book rights is a real bonus, That way if a large publisher wanted to take on my book I can do it.”
“I believe so many authors are beginning to understand the advantage of publishing by print-on-demand and the real risk of publishing with traditional publishers.”
What if an author does not have an email?
If you have no email Book Jolt will make sure that you get one and we will set it up for you. If not we will communicate by mail and phone.
Authors were asked what would you do different when you publish your second book?
The majority, over 77%, of second time authors say, “This time I am using an professional editor
The production process in our Basic, Advanced, and Premium Publishing Packages is as follows:
- We have an author’s production call with you and 2 members of our team. This call is usually 60 minutes in length. We discuss your vision of your book, explain production dates and talk about marketing.
- Production starts with creation of two or three cover designs (depending on your package). The designer will then send you the cover PDF. you make any revisions at this point.
- Once your cover has been approved, we will start on the interior. The reason we do the cover first is that it dictates the typefaces and design of your overall look of your book. The designers will design the first 30 pages of the interior and send you a PDF by email for your approval.
- As soon as you approve the first 30 pages the design will complete the interior. A completed PDF will be sent to you for your changes and approval. Now is the time to do any corrections.
- Once we know the exact number of pages of your book, the cover designer will make a complete cover wrap (Front, Back covers as well as the spine). It will be sent to you for your final approval.
- When we receive your final OK you will receive your complimentary printed books within 10-14 days.
SOCIAL MEDIA
What is the most important marketing strategy to get if you are on a tight budget?
If you’re up author on a tight marketing budget the one thing that you definitely want is a authors website. it’s going to be the hub of anything that you do online.
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