Compact Author Website Checklist

Please make sure you have all this info available before filling the form in:

1. (Working) title of your book
2. (Working) subtitle
3. Short overview of your book
4. A short bio about yourself
5. A high-res professional photo of yourself

Important: please make sure you fill in this form on a laptop or desktop (non-mobile device).

Book Promo Checklist

Please make sure you have all this info available before filling this form in:

1. Elevator pitch for your book (1 short sentence)
2. 1 long or 2 short testimonials with reviewer details

Important: please make sure you fill in this form on a laptop or desktop (non-mobile device).

Business Card Checklist

Please make sure you have all this info available before filling this form in:

1. Contact details to go on your card
2. [email protected] email address
3. 5 word tagline for front of the card if you do not want to use our standard tagline
4. 15 word tagline for the back of the card if you do not want to use our standard tagline

Important: please make sure you fill in this form on a laptop or desktop (non-mobile device).

Welcome Author Announcement Checklist

Please make sure you have all this info available before filling the form in:

1. (Working) title of your book
2. (Working) subtitle
3. Short overview of your book
4. A short bio about yourself
5. A high-res professional photo of yourself

Important: please make sure you fill in this form on a laptop or desktop (non-mobile device).

Audio Books are the future of publishing, to give you an idea how big…Amazon bought Audible!

We will provide you with a turnkey audio conversion including:

• Best practice audio production (Editing and production reducing breaths, errors and background noise).
• Distribution to: Audiobooks.com, Audible, iTunes, Amazon, and more.

Capture your target audience’s interest and let them see your words come alive through motion graphics specially created for your book that you can use on social media and your website.

Get your brand in front of millions of users as it will appear in 110 + guaranteed media partner website including Google News, Bing News and guaranteed placement with PR syndication in top websites.

The next step after being recognized as an Author is to start going on the global speaking circuits. We will connect you with the Speaker Bureau the represents some of the world’s top speaker names like Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, Brian Tracy, Ron Kaufman and Prof. Tony Buzan to name a few.

India is the third largest publishing market in world, after the US and UK. It has over 125 Million English-language speakers.

You get a chance to be listed on Embassy Books catalogue both for India and international markets. Your book will be pitch to Embassy Books one of the top publishers in India who publish books for the likes of Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield Marshall Goldsmith, Brian Tracy and Napoleon Hill. If they decide to pickup your book this will be your first step to going global.

Creative, eye-catching 3D mockup for your book to announce & promote it on social media.

A simple PDF e-book copy to share with your clients and friends & family via email and to use on your website as a downloadable document.

The hardcover book features a durable cloth binding, an embossed spine, and a full-colour dust jacket. The additional space provided by the interior of the dust jacket allows us to print descriptive copy about your book and your author biography on the inside flaps, while the back cover may include, for example, excerpts of reviews or endorsements. Your hardcover edition will be assigned a unique ISBN.

Millions of iPads have been sold and iPhone revenues account for over HALF of all smart phone revenue in the United States. Is your book a part of this growing market? It can be, simply and conveniently, with enhanced, independent distribution of your own iPad/iPhone electronic edition of your book through Apple’s iBooks bookstore.

Adapt to the digital age of the book industry by publishing a book in digital or electronic format. Format your manuscript as an e-book that can be read by different mobile devices and downloaded from such trusted sites like Google Play Books.

We will publish your book in Mobi format for Amazon/Kindle and in ePub for all the rest.

Softcover books are formatted as Black & White trade paperbacks. Trade paperback is an industry term that describes a book that is of better production quality.

We make your book available across the globe from US, across Europe, Middle East and all the way to Asia and Australia. your book will be available to more than 70 online partners and 39,000 retailers, libraries, schools and universities.

Global Online Retail Partners: view the full list on this page.

Global Print Distribution Partners: view the full list on this page.

The Barnes & Noble “Read Instantly” feature gives readers a sneak peek of your book and is included in all publishing packages that contain e-book formatting. This service offers readers a limited preview of your book, usually the front and back covers, table of contents, and first few pages. Using navigation tools, readers can scan all the preview pages online or search for specific terms located within your text.

The Amazon “Look Inside” and Google Preview service gives readers a sneak peek of your book and is included in all publishing packages that contain e-book formatting. When searching Amazon and Google, customers are able to access a limited preview of your book.

Readers have the opportunity to sample the preview pages through a navigation bar as well as the table of contents and search for specific terms located within your text.

The Amazon “Look Inside” and Google Preview service gives readers a sneak peek of your book and is included in all publishing packages that contain e-book formatting. When searching Amazon and Google, customers are able to access a limited preview of your book.

Readers have the opportunity to sample the preview pages through a navigation bar as well as the table of contents and search for specific terms located within your text.

Legal deposit is a requirement for Australian publications to be deposited with the National Library of Australia, we take care of the Legal Deposit for you free-of-charge with no paperwork required on your end.

One important element of a book is the International Standard Book Number or ISBN. The ISBN is a 13-digit number that will be assigned to your book once published. The ISBN is unique to your book and serves as an identifier and enables any interested reader, bookseller, librarian, or distributor to efficiently find or market your title.

We will issue separate ISBN numbers for each format of your book (soft cover, hardcover and e-book).

Our books look professional, both on the outside and the inside. Every Ultimate package includes free standard interior book formatting by a real, live (and talented) human being. The Enhanced Interior Formatting with Author Input solicits design requirements from the author in advance of book formatting.

Photos, tables, charts, diagrams, drawings, foreign fonts, and anything else that is not text or would be considered a graphic helps brings your point alive, we can take care of converting your images into a digital file and enhancing them so they fit cleanly into the pages of your book.

With Australia’s #1 BRANDOGRAPHER and choice Branding Photographer for Entrepreneurs, KOSTAS IATROU.

You have 8 seconds to attract a buyer’s attention. Make them count! We make sure that your book cover has a unique and eye-catching cover design can help you attract readers and entice them to read your story.

With this service you can capture readers’ interest with optimised front and back cover text that suits your author image and your book’s story/genre. Our professional copywriters will assess and enhance your book’s cover text.

We will work on your headline, synopsis, and author biography text with marketing appeal and compelling zing, to make it sing.

This final level of hands-on editing is conducted after a manuscript is in layout (usually as a PDF, unless the manuscript is going straight to e-book), which is whence the name derives—the proofreader checks the manuscript “proof” to make sure everything is correct, if anything is noticed then it is implemented by the interior layout designer before it goes to print.

Scope The copy edit’s primary focus is not only on correcting mechanics/formatting and ensuring internal consistency, but also on correcting any other perceived flaws that undermine the manuscript’s effectiveness. Monitors the consistency and accuracy of information and ideas throughout the whole book. This is especially helpful to ensure your book communicate a clear and consistent message.

Our Line Editing service provides a thorough correction of your manuscript to catch anything you may have overlooked. This includes catching mistakes in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and syntax. Recommendations on word choice and improving overall readability will also be provided.

The Editorial Assessment is an excellent evaluation of the overall condition of your manuscript. It includes an assessment form detailing the book’s strengths and its areas for improvement, as part of the process, a portion of your work (typically the first chapter or about 1,700 words) will be edited to provide you with a sample to show the types of errors found, and a service level recommendation, so you select the level of editing that will most benefit your manuscript.

We are one of the few, if not the only, publishing houses that provide you the ability to review your final book on a cloud based online proofing software tool. No more of the long & painful process that used to include PDF exports, emails, printing, typing and emailing back. All the work is done online so you can cut stress and save your mental and physical energy to focus on running your business.

We will do the full setup of your POD on IngramSpark, you just give us a dedicated email address.

We will do all the legwork on your behalf to upload your book into all major online platforms so its available on their online stores across the globe.

You will get a dedicated single-point-of-contact Author Assistant who will hand hold you throughout the publishing journey, take care of all the production details for you, and work with you to resolve technicalities. We have teams in different time zones and working weeks so you will get maximum availability on customer service. We work harder to make your life easier.

Amazon Author Profiles convert more shoppers into buyers because people like knowing who wrote the book they are considering, we setup your Amazon Author Account for you.

The Author Page is more than just a new section on your sales page. It is your entire author presence on Amazon!

CEO, Embassy Books

Mumbai, India

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sohin-lakhani-7221428/

https://www.embassybooks.in/

Sohin is the CEO of Embassy Books, one of India’s leading publishing houses, and with India being world’s third largest publishing market after USA and UK that makes Sohin one of the leading figure in the publishing industry globally.

His family has been for 101 years in the books business, and for the past 18 years he has published and/or distributed over 450 titles in English and various Indian language translations. The company also specializes in distribution of mainstream publishers to both trade and corporate clients, including luminary authors such as Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield Marshall Goldsmith, Brian Tracy and Napoleon Hill.

Australia’s #1 BRANDOGRAPHER

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kostasiatrou/

https://ikonimages.com.au/

Kostas is Australia’s #1 BRANDOGRAPHER (Personal Branding Photographer and Brand Image Strategist) and for over 14 years has been helping to bring out the best in authors with his impressive Branding Portraits that feature on book covers, websites, Social Media, magazines and many other places through his company IKON IMAGES.

Kosta works with Authors, Speakers, Coaches, Consultants and Entrepreneurs to show their energy and personality and help them create an Authority Personal Brand.

Partner, Merritz Law Firm

London – Dubai – Tashkent

https://www.linkedin.com/in/diana-bayzakova-a5593a10

Diana is a dispute resolution expert in the field of construction, real estate and natural resources with a focus on complex, cross-border disputes pertaining to the MENA and the CIS region. She acted as a sole arbitrator, on a panel of arbitrators and as counsel in international arbitral proceedings around the world with an aggregate value of several billion dollars under a variety of arbitration rules (DIAC, DIFC-LCIA, ICC, SCC, ADCCAC and others).

Her works have been cited and used by the U.S. Congress and other publications in various highly rated peer-reviewed and industry-specific journals. She regularly provides her expert opinion to, and is being interviewed by, Gulf News – the leading regional newspaper – on various legislative developments in the region.

Optimized book metadata helps a book reach best seller! Our Amazon Metadata Specialists will manage and optimize your metadata on Amazon through:

1. Audits: record and analyze opportunities across online stores and databases, and
2. Optimization: research and optimize existing or new book metadata, especially categories and keywords which can result in improved sales and/or best seller badges

Review of final book on electronic galley, includes 1 round of changes.

When your book is near completion, you might still want to make some last minute revisions. If you find publisher errors such as hyphenation errors, formatting issues, misplaced graphics, note them on the proof form provided so they can be corrected for free.*

*Please note:

• Each change need to be in the same location and as per of the same sentence, if the same word is repeated in 5 different locations then that counts as 5 changes.
• Changes that will require new layout will be charged separately.

We often receive manuscripts that require formatting corrections before we can start the editorial and layout processes. These include:

• Removing headers, footers, page numbering, etc.
• Inserting page breaks appropriately
• Correcting soft and hard returns
• Correcting line and paragraph formatting

Your book will have unprecedented access to more global markets via one of the world’s largest online distribution networks. E-book distribution from more than 70 online partners serving readers across the globe.

• Amazon
• Apple
• Baker & Taylor Blio
• Barnes & Noble
• 24Symbols
• 7Switch
• BookShout (Rethink Books)
• Bookmate
• EBSCO
• Follett
• Gardners
• Glose
• Hummingbird DM
• Inktera
• Kobo
• PaperC
• Redshelf
• Rockstand (RockASAP)
• Sainsbury
• Txtr
• Wook
• Zola
• A Book Company
• All Romance eBooks
• Artech House
• Asia Books
• BOL.com
• Bookshop Krisostomus
• Booktopia
• Campus eBooks
• Cokesbury.com
• Completebook.com
• Covenant
• DMC
• ebook.de Internet GmbH
• eBookMall
• eBookShop
• FeedBooks
• Five Senses Education Pty ltd
• Global Reward Systems
• Hastings
• Infibeam
• Inkterra
• lwemi.com
• KIOWPPE
• Juke Entertainment GmbH
• Libstor
• Lybrary.com
• Majesty Media Group
• Mediander, LLC
• Mintbook.com
• MPH Online
• My Learning Hub
• Online Book Place
• Pocketbook
• PubFront APS
• Saraiva e Siciliano
• Sarajoben Enterprises US
• SBS Special Book Services
• Slicebooks
• Spotlink Digital
• Takealot
• Textbooks.com MBS
• Tradebit
• UAB VIP Supply
• Wisepress LTD UK
• XAMOnline
• Jamalon: the largest online bookstore in the Middle East, offering more than 9.5
  million titles of Arabic and English books with home delivery and cash on delivery
  services.

Want to know exactly where your books available to retailers worldwide? Below you will find a list print distribution partners helping connect you to readers across the globe.

United States

Your book will be made available to more than tens of thousands of retailers, libraries, schools, internet commerce companies, and other channel partners, including:

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Chapters/Indigo (Canada)
• Other well-known book retailers and wholesalers across North America

United Kingdom | Europe

• Adlibris
• Agapea
• Amazon.co.uk
• Aphrohead
• Bertrams
• Blackwell
• Book Depository Ltd
• Books Express
• Coutts Information Services Ltd
• Designarta Books
• Eden Interactive Ltd
• Foyles
• Gardners
• Trust Media Distribution (formerly STL)
• Mallory International
• Paperback Shop Ltd
• Superbookdeals
• The Book Community Ltd
• Waterstones
• Wrap Distribution

Australia & New Zealand

• Booktopia
• Fishpond
• The Nile
• James Bennett
• ALS
• Peter Pal
• University Co-operative Bookshop

Middle East

• Jamalon: the largest online bookstore in the Middle East, offering more than 9.5 million titles of Arabic and English books with home delivery and cash on delivery services.

Chairman, Right Selection Group

Dubai, UAE

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramganglani/

https://rightselection.com/

Ram Ganglani brings 5 decades of experience, wisdom and expertise in the books and speakers industry.

His career started in a bookstore which over the years he grew to become one of the world’s leading speaker bureaus, Right Selection, where he serves as the Chairman of the group.

Right Selection represents some of the world’s top speaker names like Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, Brian Tracy, Ron Kaufman and Prof. Tony Buzan to name a few.

Ultimate 48 Hour Author

Melbourne, Australia

https://www.linkedin.com/in/natasadenman/

https://www.natasadenman.org/

Natasa has created close to 250 published authors around the world in the past 7 years through her proprietary “Ultimate 48 Hours Author” system.

She especially assists coaches, consultants, speakers, practitioners and entrepreneurs in building their expertise and personal brands in a competitive marketplace so they stand out and leverage via their books and products overcoming the need to continuously having to sell their time for money.

A published author herself she has 8 books under her belt (going on 9) including Bums on Seats, Speaking Successfully, 1000 Days to a Million Dollar Coaching Business from Home, You Can… Live the Life of Your Dreams, The 7 Ultimate Secrets To Weight Loss, Ninja Couch Marketing, Ultimate 48 Hour Author and Guilt Free Parenting.

The Passionpreneur

Dubai – Melbourne

https://www.linkedin.com/in/moustafahamwi/

https://moustafa.com

Moustafa is an award winning author, speaker & coach; and is recognized as the world’s leading expert on Passionate Leadership. He has achieved in one year what took others 20 years to achieve in this industry to an extent he got nicknamed globally as The Passionpreneur due to his amazing success in empowering leaders to work & live passionately.

He has interviewed over 180 global leaders, experts, authors, coaches, award winning artists, noble prize laureates and olympians on his talkshow Passion Sundays, which was featured on the blog of Thinkers50 which is the world’s most prestigious ranking of the top 50 management thinkers alive.

Moustafa has been selected by world’s #1 Executive Coach Dr. Marshall Goldsmith as one of top 100 coaches globally from a pool of over 12,000 applicants to work closely with Dr. Marshall on his legacy program.