It may be a bit clichéd to describe your options as precious metals, but it might make it easier to remember them! With each plan we prepare a digital master of your title that can be printed as a physical book, or set up for print-on-demand (POD), or as an eBook. The exact combination is up to you. And you have the assurance that once we've created that master for you, you can add components whenever you want.
Want to know more about eBooks and ePublishing? Check out our eBook Survival Kit.
The Plans
DPC Bronze
The aim here is to publish via POD.
Working from your final text, we design an appropriate cover, arrange an ISBN and barcode. We then send you the master in digital form (pdf) for your approval before sending it off to our POD partners. To ensure the highest quality production, IP partners with only the best POD companies such as Lightning Source and CreateSpace.
Once your title is ready for printing, you tell us how many copies you require for your immediate needs and we arrange to have them sent to you.
The beauty of POD is that you can order as few or as many copies as you want at a time, and then top up your stock when you need it.
For no additional charge, we list your title on Amazon via our membership in the Amazon Advantage Program. This ensures that we determine how your title is listed on Amazon and other online sites that harvest their listings from Amazon.
You can order stock from us as you need it. The cost per book depends on length and the physical dimensions of the book and whether or not you use colour. Straight black and white paperback books cost about AUD5. per book, delivered, (GST-inclusive) for a 100 page book. Discounts may apply if you order larger quantities, e.g. 100 at a time.
We pay you 40% of net revenue from POD sales. Net revenue is what we are paid by the POD companies, less any fees they charge us for making your title available for sale and maintaining it on their server.
DPC Silver
Under this plan, we prepare a master of your title and make it available as an eBook on the Kindle® Reader, Amazon's latest generation eBook reader, and on ContentReserve.com, a global open-source eBook distributor. Open source distributors prepare eBooks for a variety of readers, not just the Kindle.
The DPC is constantly on the look-out for other major eBook distributors to ensure our authors get the best possible exposure in the global marketplace.
For free, we list your title on Amazon via our membership in the Amazon Advantage Program. This ensures that we determine how your title is described on Amazon and other online sites that harvest their listings from Amazon.
You can order physical copies of your CD or DVD from the DPC in units of 10 or more for AUD6.60 per copy (GST-inclusive) plus a one-off charge of $129 to prepare the artwork for the CD/DVD.
We pay you 40% of net revenue from eBook sales. Net revenue is what we are paid by the POD companies, less any fees they charge us for making your title available for sale and maintaining it on their server.
DPC Gold
This provides you with all the services under the Bronze and Silver Plans but at a discount. You can sign up for the Gold Plan at any time before we upload your title to our Bronze or Silver Plan partners. Once your master is uploaded, if you decide to add the other Plan, you'll have to pay the full enrolment fee.
Again, we pay you 40% of net revenue on sales.
DPC Platinum
This adds promotion to a DPC Gold Plan. Our Promotions Team develops a marketing plan for your title and then actively promotes it in consultation with you.
We provide you with a Promotions Guide to help you be a positive force in the marketing of your title to the appropriate audience(s).
A key component in the Platinum Plan is a dedicated mini-site for your title, hosted by the DPC on the ipoz.biz site. This mini-site contains a description of your title, an author bio, key reviews and links to external sites. We update the mini-site regularly based on information you send us.
IP maintains an extensive list of bookshops, libraries and wholesale suppliers in Australia and New Zealand and an expanding list overseas. Under DPC Platinum, we prepare a Sales Kit for your title and circulate it to our contacts here and overseas.
As an extra incentive, we pay you 50% of net revenue on sales. under the Platinum Plan
Editorial Support
The DPC is committed to publishing the best possible work in print and digital form. Publishers who simply offer to publish your work as is are not doing you or your audience a service. Rightly known as "vanity publishers", such companies take your money and run.
Other companies may offer you a quick conversion of your title into eBook formats for an unbelievably low price, but generally if the price seems to good to be true, it usually is.
The DPC doesn't work that way. Step 1 in the process of being published by us is getting a Short Report of about 2-4 pages on the title's readiness for publication and general advice on how to improve it. Then, depending on how advanced the title is, we may recommend that you invest in some editorial support to refine it. Finally, once we have approved text, we also include a proofreading component to ensure the title is as close to being letter-perfect as possible.
You can arrange editorial and proofreading support from us on an hourly basis or in blocks of 10 hours at a discount from our hourly charges. Our current hourly charge for editorial support is AUD130/hr and for proofreading AUD80/hr (GST-inclusive). Editorial support can be purchased up-front for $995 per 10 hour block, and proofreading support for $695 per 10 hour block.
These rates may seem a bit pricey but keep in mind that you get what you pay for. Our in-house and freelance staff are highly qualified and geared toward assisting you to refine your work to the best possible standard. If your work is specialised, we can arrange to have a specialist freelance editor work with you at no additional charge.
The chart that follows is a guide to charges for NON-IP authors, including authors who come to us with titles previously published, but where rights have reverted back to them, including out-of-print titles. The Short Report requirement may be waived where the submission is for a previously published book, or where a detailed assessment by a recognised assessor is provided to us. This would reduce the Base charge under the Plans by $249.
The POD service provides masters to Lightning Source and CreateSpace as a minimum, but may include other POD companies where appropriate. eBook versions are prepared using ePub, XML, pdf and rtf formats, with guaranteed global availability.
Jo Brennan
A/Prose Editor