Every self-publishing house offers a “Do It Yourself” publishing plan. Generally, known as a DIY plan. Some publishing companies offer it under a different name as Starter Publishing Plan or Standard Publishing Plan. This plan is suitable for those who can edit, proofread, format the book, illustrate, and design graphics.
As the name shows “Do it Yourself.” So, the author has to do all the publishing process yourself. And submit a print-ready file to the publisher. The file submitted by the author is the final manuscript. This will be sent for printing after pasting the ISBN, copyright disclaimer and publisher logo. If the author faces any problem in the formatting or any other process. Then hints are provided by the assigned manager.
The DIY Publishing Plan services are as :
Publishing Support | Author Dashboard
SEO | Marketing | Distribution
Book Printing Quality
Royalty Criteria and Author Copy Cost
Publishing Support
The DIY services come with a Dedicated manager, Publishing consultant and Printing team support.
The author dashboard is provided to the author to track the ordered author copies and to see the live sales report on both online and offline platforms.
SEO | Marketing | Distribution
Good quality SEO services are done for the book. And the book will be listed on the e-commerce websites as per the consult by the Publishing Consultant.
The author should not be worried about the distribution of the book. If your book is good, then it will grab a perfect space for distribution by the publisher.
Book Printing Quality
No publisher would compromise the printing quality of books. The books are printed according to the option selected by the author or to the respective book genre.
Royalty Criteria and Author Copy Cost
As per the contract that happened between the publisher and author. The royalty will be distributed as per the guidelines. However, there is some difference in comparison to the other publishing plan’s royalty criteria. But the DIY has its own benefits to the author. And it is the best publishing plan to make my debut as an author.