Before you pay a publishing company: the questions to ask
A free 2-page checklist for authors who are thinking about paying a publisher. It covers what to ask about price, rights, royalties and your own accounts, so you know the answers before you sign.
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What's in it
It is for you if a company has offered to publish your book for a fee, or you are comparing publishers and packages.
- The money: what you pay, when you find out the price, and what it is really called.
- Your rights and royalties: the ISBN, the rights, how to leave, and what share you keep.
- Your accounts and sales: whether the book sits in your own KDP and IngramSpark accounts.
- Their track record: where to look a company up before you pay.
- How they found you: the praise email, and what "selected" really means.
Who made this
I'm Chris Baird. I've published 230 books and made over 50,000 book sales. The questions come from what I've written about vanity publishers and publishing companies on this site.