Problem description:

What procedures are needed before and after the book is published? What if I publish a book at my own expense? How much will it cost? The more detailed the answer, the better.

Analysis:

Regular process: writing a book, submitting a manuscript to a publishing house, hiring, editing, revising, finalizing, publishing and listing (the intermediate publishing society will discuss with you the revision, remuneration, layout design, binding, publicity and promotion, and signing a copyright contract, etc.). )

Informal process: writing a book, looking for a book from a publishing house at your own expense, paying for the book number, deciding the number of prints and paying for them, layout design and binding ..., publishing, looking for acquaintances or buying N books by yourself can refer to Chu Books, which contains the process, cost and time. , and very detailed.

Specifically, the publishing program includes:

1, complete the work and input/typesetting, design the cover, and make the manuscript neat, clear and final;

2. Submit directly to the editorial department of the publishing house or find an agent to publish your work;

3, by the publishing house or agent preliminary selected topics, manuscripts, signed a publishing contract or agency contract;

4. Pay related expenses: publishing management fee (ISBN fee) and editing fee (some publishing houses do not charge or are not included in the management fee);

5. Enter the publishing process (if the agency publishing is generally about one month or less);

6. After the manuscript review is completed, the publishing society will issue the book number, CIP, and order form. (Some of them have power of attorney);

7. Printing-distribution.

Generally speaking, the related expenses of publishing a book can be divided into: prepress design, publishing and printing, specifically divided into:

(1) prepress design: recording and typesetting (including film production) and cover design (including film production), which are basically not much different;

(2) Publication: ISBN fee (management fee) and editing fee; The amount of these two fees mainly depends on what kind of publishing house you choose. Different publishers charge different fees.

(3) Printing: cover printing (including paper, printing, film covering and post-production), body paper, body printing and binding; This production cost is related to many factors, including cover paper, technology, film, text paper, number of books, number of printed albums and so on. If necessary, you can send me the relevant information of your book, and I will help you calculate the post-production cost and publish it @ 126.

Suppose the book is a traditional 32-page book, 300 pages, single-volume odd number, monochrome offset paper printing 10000 volumes. The cost for a bookseller to run a book is as follows:

1, ISBN 10000 ~ 15000 yuan, editing fee 0 ~ 2000 yuan, 10000 ~ 17000 yuan.

2. Contribution fee: 3000 ~ 10000 yuan.

3. The design, recording, arrangement and production cost is 3,000 yuan.

4. Paper, printing and binding cost 30,000 yuan.

5. Other expenses (warehousing and logistics communication management, etc. ) 5000 yuan.

Then the cost is 5 1, 000 ~ 65000 yuan, and the median is 58000 yuan. Then the cost per share is 5.80 yuan.

But they usually sell for about 60% off, that is, 10 yuan, 4.2 yuan profit.

The profit of provincial wholesalers is 10%, and the rest are basically retail bookstores.

As for individual publishing, the situation is more complicated. According to our experience, it is generally difficult for an individual author to make a profit when publishing a book for the first time, but there are many factors that determine whether a book is profitable, such as topic selection, content, packaging, marketing and channel development. It depends on how you operate it. zhidao.baidu/question/8506288

The specific process of publishing a book

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A book has to go through many links and a series of specific procedures from topic selection, soliciting contributions, compiling, editing, processing and publishing.

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Publishers generally propose topics according to the long-term and short-term topic selection planning and the current and potential market demand, find suitable authors (translators) and sign book publishing contracts with them. The author (translator) shall edit or translate in accordance with the contents agreed with the publishing house and the book publishing contract.

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In addition to publishing houses actively soliciting contributions from translators, authors (translators) can also actively contact publishing houses to recommend their own manuscripts or submit their own written (translated) manuscripts. We hope that the translator will contact the publishing house and make a choice before writing. In the contact letter, the author (translator) should explain the value and significance of writing or translating the work, the main contents and characteristics of the work, and put forward a brief outline for the publishing house to study whether to include it. For translated works, besides introducing the translation value, the main contents and characteristics of the original, the translation in the book catalogue and a copy of the copyright page should also be provided. For the author (translator) to submit his own manuscript, the publishing house decides whether to adopt it according to the quality of the manuscript and the needs of readers.

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After the author (translator) completes the first draft and submits it to the publishing house, the publishing house should conduct a comprehensive review of the manuscript. When necessary, the publishing house will invite relevant experts or hold a review meeting to review the manuscript. Generally, the translated manuscript needs to be revised, and if necessary, it depends on the trial version. The manuscript decided to be adopted, that is, the editing, processing, review and final review of the publishing house, will put forward opinions on the manuscript that needs to be revised, supplemented or deleted at this stage, and the author (translator) should cooperate with it and seriously revise it. If the author (translator) has different opinions, he can also raise them and finalize them after consensus. If the manuscript does not meet the publishing requirements, and it still does not meet the requirements after repeated revisions, the publishing house may reject the manuscript according to the contract.

After editing, reviewing and processing, the manuscript is bound, designed, proofread, printed, bound and officially published, and then sent to typesetting. In order to ensure the quality of the manuscript, besides the close cooperation of all links of the publishing house, it is especially hoped that the translator will deliver the manuscript that meets the requirements of "unity, clarity and finality" in the process of writing (translation) and publishing, and make good cooperation with the publishing house.

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All you have to do is give the manuscript to the publishing house. If the publishing house is interested, you don't have to bother. They will make every effort. As for the cost of publishing a book, it is more complicated. Only direct costs are mentioned here. Mainly includes: typesetting, editing and proofreading, plate-making and printing, distribution, remuneration, etc. There are also many ways to settle the author's remuneration. Royalties are generally more commonly used.