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Children's Book Custom Layout and Design
The importance of good layout and design is often overlooked or undervalued by the author of an illustrated children’s book. Beautiful illustrations frequently blind the novice publisher into thinking that the illustrations alone are the key to success. But without the proper design, your children’s book is bound to fail.
At Self Publishing, Inc., we are here to help you every step of the way. With illustrated children’s books you have three basic choices of format… these formats are determined by binding style. The interior pages are the same with all. The difference is that a paperback book requires a cover. A hardcover book requires a printed casewrap. In addition to a printed casewap, publishers sometime prefer a separate jacket to make their book complete.
The choice is yours.
Cover & Text for Paperback
PACKAGE INCLUDES:
- Consultation with Graphic Designer to establish general book layout, graphic design and type faces.
- 24 or 32 pages of text layout from your MS Word manuscript, and original scanned or digital artwork.
- Scanning of original artwork, if necessary (up to16 scans)
- Creation of cover
- Creation of title, copyright, dedication, and author bio pages
- Layout text, combine with illustrations
- PDF proof for approval
- 1 round of corrections (up to 25 corrections)
- Final PDF proof for approval prior to sending files to printer*
*NOTE: Our Design Service is offered exclusively to author/publishers who print books with Self Publishing, Inc.. No print ready files will be sent to customer until after books are printed. Once books are printed, you can request a copy of the print ready PDF files, created by us for a small fee of $25. Complete application files are also available after books are printed for an additional $250. You can request a copy of your print ready files, prior to the first printing, for an additional $495 per file (so text and cover would be $990.)
Price for Cover & Text for Paperback - $670
Casewrap & Text for Hardcover
PACKAGE INCLUDES:
- Consultation with Graphic Designer to establish general book layout, graphic design and type faces.
- 24 or 32 pages of text layout from your MS Word manuscript, and original scanned or digital artwork.
- Scanning of original artwork, if necessary (up to16 scans)
- Creation of casewrap
- Creation of title, copyright, dedication, and author bio pages
- Layout text, combine with illustrations
- Design single color endpapers for offset printing
- PDF proof for approval
- 1 round of corrections (up to 25 corrections)
- Final PDF proof for approval prior to sending files to printer*
*NOTE: Our Design Service is offered exclusively to author/publishers who print books with Self Publishing, Inc.. No print ready files will be sent to customer until after books are printed. Once books are printed, you can request a copy of the print ready PDF files, created by us for a small fee of $25. Complete application files are also available after books are printed for an additional $250. You can request a copy of your print ready files, prior to the first printing, for an additional $495 per file (so text and cover would be $990.)
Price for Casewrap & Text for Hardcover - $770
Jacket & Casewrap & Text for Hardcover
PACKAGE INCLUDES:
- Consultation with Graphic Designer to establish general book layout, graphic design and type faces.
- 24 or 32 pages of text layout from your MS Word manuscript, and original scanned or digital artwork.
- Scanning of original artwork, if necessary (up to16 scans)
- Creation of casewrap and jacket
- Creation of title, copyright, dedication, and author bio pages
- Layout text , combine with illustrations
- Design single color endpapers for offset printing
- PDF proof for approval
- 1 round of corrections (up to 25 corrections)
- Final PDF proof for approval prior to sending files to printer*
*NOTE: Our Design Service is offered exclusively to author/publishers who print books with Self Publishing, Inc.. No print ready files will be sent to customer until after books are printed. Once books are printed, you can request a copy of the print ready PDF files, created by us for a small fee of $25. Complete application files are also available after books are printed for an additional $250. You can request a copy of your print ready files, prior to the first printing, for an additional $495 per file (so text and cover would be $990.)
Price for Casewrap, Jacket & Text for Hardcover - $770