We create Paperback, Hardcover, eBooks and Audiobooks for Publishing & Distribution
Please see our information and examples for: book cover design portfolio, interior design portfolio, editing services, ebook options and audiobook options below with pricing.
- We design and typeset a professional book interior and make your book available for sale with the world’s most prominent bookstores libraries, and online retailers. You keep 100% of your sales and retain 100% of your rights!
A free physical proof and free book copies can be provided for Hybrid Publishing for paperback and hardcover options.
We customize your project based on your goals, so once you look at the information below, please schedule a call so we can provide you with a customized plan. We will complete it together, so that you can make an informed decision and have everything you need.
Paperback, Hardcover, Ebook and Audio Book Publishing & Distribution
- We design and typeset a professional book interior and make your book available for sale with the world’s most prominent bookstores libraries, and online retailers. You keep 100% of your sales and retain 100% of your rights!
A free physical proof and free book copies can be provided for Hybrid Publishing for paperback and hardcover options.
Book Cover Design
Cover Options to Choose From
Custom covers, layouts and logos from award winning designers that connect with reader at glance
We collaborate with our authors to partner and clarify their ideas and bring life to their book.
Custom Book Cover Design
Fully customized full cover based on your book’s theme, plot, and/or imagery. Includes unlimited graphics, images, and revisions as needed. We won’t stop until you are 100% satisfied.
OR
Illustrated Cover
Fully customized illustrated cover incorporating intricate details, textures, backgrounds, and blending. Can be done in any style, including high fantasy, realistic imagery, anime/manga, and everything in between.
OR
100% Custom-Made
All of our covers are custom-made to your specifications. We can do virtually any style and will not stop until you’re happy.
How It Works
Submit Your Ideas
After you sign up, you will receive an email from your Author Manager asking for any cover ideas you have. Don’t worry if you don’t have any specific ideas; our artists are more-than-capable of creating outstanding covers based solely on a description of your book.
Review and Revise
We design a beautiful, professional, and marketable cover for your book. We don’t use templates and we customize all of our covers from scratch, based on your input and genre-specific norms. Unlimited revisions until publication.
Receive your Cover!
Once you approve the final cover design, we will send you a high-resolution digital file of your cover which you can use on your website, Facebook page, or anywhere else you like!
Our Design Process
Congrats, you have completed your book, now you can leave the design process to us.
Step One
We schedule a phone or Zoom call to get to know you and your book. You get to know us too! This call takes about 15-30 minutes and is scheduled at your convenience.
Step Two
Now, we research and begin to work on your cover design. Generally in about 2 weeks or less, you will receive anywhere from 5-7 cover concepts (or more, our designer's record is 26!). The design guides the job, and sometimes it says more, and sometimes, it says less.
Step Three
A Zoom call is set, to go over the designs together. During the call, the designer makes changes in real-time or we discuss changes I will make offline via a call if necessary.
Step Four
Yay! Now we are done tweaking the cover and you have a final design. From here the back cover, spine and final print-ready files are done.
Cover Design Portfolio
The Interior Design Process
Your book is written, your cover is complete. Now it’s time to format the most important part—your words and ideas.
Step One
First we start off with a phone or Zoom call so I can get to you know you and your manuscript. And, you can get to know me too! This call takes about 15-30 minutes and is scheduled at your convenience.
Step Two
I create three interior design options using one to two chapters of your manuscript. In the options I will create three different treatments for the typefaces, header, footer, subhead and other design considerations.
Step Three
We schedule a Zoom call to go over the designs. You will decide typefaces, headers, footers and other elements you were presented in the interior design options. This is many times an interactive process where you can see options on in real time.
Step Four
I complete the interior layout and present it to you for final proofing. At this step you are making small changes to the content, if any, and proofing for any design/layout mistakes.
Step Five
I make the changes you submitted to me and provide you with a final, print-ready interior file.
Interior Design Portfolio
Interior Formatting/Design Pricing
Book Interior Formatting/Design
Non-Fiction Books
$600 TO $950
FEE INCLUDES:
Price is based on the word count of your manuscript and by the complexity of the interior design.
Includes layout of front matter, manuscript, back matter
Includes stock photography/graphics if applicable and inclusion of any graphics supplied by the author
Revisions until you are satisfied the interior meets the vision for your book. If you completely change the agreed-upon concept direction, there will be an additional charge.
Book Interior Formatting/Design
Fiction Books
$600 to $1,250
FEE INCLUDES:
Price is based on the word count of your manuscript and by the complexity of the interior design.
Includes front matter, manuscript, back matter
Revisions until you are satisfied the interior meets the vision for your book.
If you completely change the agreed-upon concept direction, there will be an additional charge.
Book Interior Formatting/Design
Workbooks and Journals
$850 to $2,500
FEE INCLUDES:
Price is based on the word count of your manuscript and by the complexity of the interior design of the workbook/journal.
Includes layout of front matter, journal/workbook pages, back matter Includes stock photography for graphics, if applicable and inclusion of any graphics supplied by the author
Revisions until you are satisfied the interior meets the vision for your book.
If you completely change the agreed-upon concept direction, there will be an additional charge.
Interior Formatting/Design FAQs
Who owns the rights to the interior layout?
The author owns all rights to the final interior layout/design. Any individual elements provided by me, such as photos, graphics, etc. are owned by the author and if requested, can be provided as individual image files.
How many revisions does the design price include?
The book interior is finished when the author is satisfied. That being said, if a concept is agreed upon and presented and then the author changes the direction, an additional fee will apply. Also, the manuscript should have been proof-edited prior to layout. If after layout is complete and this is an exceptional amount of textual changes, additional fees will apply.
What are your payment terms?
Half of the design fee is due when the agreement is signed and the balance is due when the design is complete, or 90 days past the date of the initial agreement, whichever comes first.
Editing Services
What types of editing services do we offer?
Whether you’re looking for copyediting, proofreading, or an editor who can read your book in a Word document and tell you where you’re going wrong, you’ll find what you’re looking for with us. Below are a few of the most popular options offered by our award-winning editors.
Editorial Assessments
Think of this as ‘Development Editing Lite’ — the right choice if you’re not ready to commit to a full developmental edit. The editor will still provide feedback and suggestions, only they won’t edit the manuscript directly.
With an editorial assessment, you can expect:
A detailed editorial letter with an analysis of your manuscript and
specific suggestions for revision.
Developmental Editing
This involves the editor providing guidance and feedback on ‘big picture’
issues such as structure, pacing, characterization, and plot (for fiction) — as well as marketability. With the developmental editing service, you can expect:
A detailed editorial letter with an analysis of your manuscript and
specific suggestions for revision.
An annotated copy of your manuscript that contains specific notes
and edits.
Copyediting
A popular choice for authors who are satisfied with the structure and content of their manuscript — and are ready to use their editing time perfecting the language to best convey their ideas and captivate their readers. With copy editing, you can expect:
A copy-edited version of your manuscript in a Word document with tracked changes, so you can identify where edits were made.
A style sheet listing all standard spellings and formatting, which can later be referenced by proofreaders.
Proofreading
The final stage of the editorial process, giving authors the best chance of
publishing a book with high-quality, error-free writing. With
proofreading, you can expect:
A final manuscript that has been meticulously proofread and
corrected to professional publishing standards.
Editing Services/FAQs
Can our Editors work in other languages?
Currently, Riley-Infinity only provides editorial services in the English language. This may change in the future, so feel free to inquire.
Can I get other papers like term papers and dissertations edited and proofread?
Riley-Infinity’s editing service caters to authors. The freelance professionals on our platform have experience in the publishing business. For that reason, they rarely accept requests to edit dissertations, term papers, or academic texts that are not intended for commercial publication. However, some of our academic and reference nonfiction editors might be open to editing other projects, so don’t hesitate to reach out for a quote!
What are your payment terms?
Half of the design fee is due when the agreement is signed and the balance is due when the editing is complete.
What are the costs of editing services on Riley-Infinity?
Type of work - Price per word
Editorial Assessment - $0.020
Content /Developmental Editing - $0.028
Copy Editing - $0.021
Proofreading - $0.015
Please note: these numbers are averages. They do not include picture books, graphic novels, journals, anything out of a standard manuscript or standard book genre, etc. For a more accurate estimate of your editing costs (and your potential design costs), I will take your manuscript and give it to our editors.
Copyright Questions?
Whether it’s copyright question in your book, or you want to file your copyright submission with the US Copyright Office, we can have someone review your manuscript and answer copyright questions or we can help
you copyright your book once it has been created, or the directions are below and you can pursue it yourself.
If you want to copyright your book and protect yourself from intellectual property issues (and other potential threats)?
Here's the simple 7-step process on how to copyright a book.
• 1. Go to the U.S. Copyright Office website
• 2. Select the “Literary Works” category
• 4. Start the copyright registration process
• 6. Complete the copyright application
• 7. Submit your work to finish copyrighting your book
You can find the US Copyright Office’s landing page at copyright.gov/registrations
eBook Design Options
The eBook Formatting Process
After your book interior and cover are designed and complete, you can move on to the eBook formatting.
The interior file (most likely an Adobe InDesign file) created for your paperback is typically used as the basis for your eBook.
If you do not have access to your InDesign file, an eBook can also be created from a Microsoft Word document.
There are two types of eBooks, reflowable and fixed.
Reflowable
A reflowable eBook, the most common, is basically a web page, consisting of HTML and CSS code.The text and images “flow” with the size of the device used to view the eBook and the fonts change in size as well.
Because of the reflowable nature of the eBook, not all the formatting created for the print version of your book is supported in the reflowable eBook version.
Some examples of unsupported formatting include: Exact vertical spacing, ie, starting the text at a specific vertical space on the “page”. Fonts are typically embedded but not supported on all devices.
This means that on some devices, the fonts chosen for the eBook will revert to the default fonts available on the device. The size of the fonts used throughout will change because, on all eBook devices, the reader has control over the size of the type. Because of this, exact spacing, hyphenation, line breaks cannot be controlled.
Images in reflowable eBooks resize to work with the device it is being viewed on as well as the size of the type chosen by the reader. Because of this, the exact placement and size of images are greatly restricted. Lines, boxes, and shading behind the text are not supported.
Reflowable eBooks must include a hyperlinked table of contents. And, to make those work properly, many times, the configuration of the chapter start pages may need to vary from the paperback version.
Footnotes and endnotes are areas of concern for reflowable eBooks. They must be linked via hyperlink to the reference point AND the reference point MUST link back to the text.
Fixed eBook
A fixed eBook is essentially a static document, similar to a PDF. It is still in an HTML format like the reflowable, but it lacks the “flow”.
Children’s books, art and photography books, and other highly designed books are candidates for fixed eBooks.
eBook Publishing Options
- Conversion and Distribution (Reflowable Text)
We convert your file(s) by hand into a professional eBook that is compatible with all eReading devices and we make it available for sale with all of our retail partners. You keep 100% of your sales! Free ISBN included.
- Conversion and Distribution (Fixed Layout)
We convert your file(s) by hand into a professional fixed layout eBook that is compatible with all eReading devices and we make it available for sale with all of our retail partners that accept fixed layout eBook files. You keep 100% of your sales! Free ISBN included.
- eBooks with Audio or Video “Enhancements”
We convert your file(s) by hand, including the embedding of audio and/or video files, into a professional eBook and we make it available for sale with all of our retail partners that accept “enhanced” eBook files. You keep 100% of your sales! Free ISBN included.
eBook Formatting Pricing
Starting from Formatted InDesign Interior File
$250 to $550
If we format your interior, the eBook formatting fee will be discounted by 40%.
The fee is determined by word count, the complexity of formatting, the existence of footnotes/endnotes, and the number of images.
Most fiction books fall in the $150-$250 range and non-fiction can fall anywhere in the range depending on the above parameters.
FEE INCLUDES:
Formatting of eBook including table of contents, images, headings, chapter start, footnotes/endnotes, and images. ePub, and JPG file of the cover
Starting from Microsoft Word Interior File
$350 to $750
The fee is determined by word count, the complexity of formatting, the existence of footnotes/endnotes, and the number of images.
Most fiction books fall in the $150-$200 range and non-fiction can fall anywhere in the range depending on the above parameters.
FEE INCLUDES:
Formatting of eBook including table of contents, images, headings, chapter start, footnotes/endnotes, and images. ePub, and JPG file of the cover
Audiobook Choices
Did you know that audiobook sales in 2021 totaled more than a Billion dollars in the US alone? This is the 8th consecutive year that audiobook sales growth has been 15-30% over the previous year.
Here’s what’s even more astounding.
- More than 70 million adults in the US alone have completed at least one audiobook in the last year, which is a 25% increase since 2015
- Audiobook listeners also tend towards being college-educated, with a trend towards a median income over $75K per year.
- The increase in sales is driven in large part by a listening audience that continues to grow, largely due to the portability of audio. After all, you can listen anywhere!
With done-for-you, complete packages starting at $2,500 based on word count and add-ons, you retain creative control and all sales royalties. Choose between Author-Narrated, Professionally Narrated, and Hybrid options.
Audiobook Options To Pick From
Author-Narrated
● Advising and tech check of your audiobook equipment and recording space
● Remote live direction and recording of your audiobook
■ Expert sound engineer to guide you
● All you need to do is focus on sharing your message
Author-Narrated
● Advising and tech check of your audiobook equipment and recording space
■ Remote live direction and recording of your audiobook
● Expert sound engineer to guide you
■ All you need to do is focus on sharing your message
Professionally Narrated
● Full auditioning of narrators for your audiobook, tailored to your specifications
■ Vetting, evaluating, and curating the “best of the best”
● Drawn from our voice talent pool as well as from around the world
■ Communication and direction with your narrator regarding production handled by our project manager.
Hybrid Option
● The best of both worlds
■ You narrate one to two sections of the book, lending your authentic
voice to the project
● A professional narrator is auditioned to handle the rest
■ The entire project is managed by Twin Flames experts
Full Author Support
● Audiobook launch strategy advisement to maximize royalties and sales
■ Complete project management from start to finish
● Highest quality editing, mastering and proofing of your audiobook production
■ Distribution to 30-50+ audiobook platforms, including Audible depending on service chosen
● Your audiobook sample and cover art featured in our Audio Library and announced to our network of over 300,000 social media followers
Audiobook Enrichments
“Interview with the Author” Bonus Chapter
● Engage your readers and amplify your message with a fully published bonus audiobook chapter
■ Custom Q&A interview with a professional host
● An evergreen marketing asset for marketing and publicity
■ Strategies for using your bonus chapter as a marketing asset in social media, your website, podcast interviews, and more Audiogram Package
● Transforms a sample from your audiobook into a social media post
■ Use on YouTube, your website, and social media
● Full professional production Audiobook and Podcast samples
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