You Get All the Profits!

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Others may charge less up front, but in the end, you pay more.

Wisdom House Books is turning the publishing business on its head! Traditionally in self-publishing, the author gets a small (pennies on the dollar) percentage of the sales of each book. We thought about that practice and decided it wasn't fair to authors. Publishers are essentially book contractors. Their fees should reflect the actual cost of publishing your book, period. Imagine you are opening a restaurant. You want to build it from the ground up. You would hire a contractor to manage the building and finish out the interior of your new business. Once it was built, you would pay the contractor, and he would go away.  But if that building contractor were a publisher, he would want 30-80% of your profits once your doors opened, and to make it worse, he would set the price for each meal at a rate much higher than the average customer wants to pay and take all the money directly from customers. You would have to trust the contractor to pay you the correct amount of revenue each quarter without any proof that his calculations were based on the actual number of meals sold.  It wouldn't be long before you were out of business.

Would you put up with that? Probably not. Yet people do it every day with publishers.

At Wisdom House Books, you get the ISBN, the copyright, and the original art files for your book, ensuring that checks go directly to you, and you can determine how you price and print the book. We set it up with a printer for you, but you have the right to take it to another printer if you so desire. You are in complete control, and our profits end when we have completed the job. All profits beyond that are yours.

What do we get out of the deal?  We ask a reasonable fee for our services and pay a livable wage to our native English-speaking book specialists who live and work in the United States.  We don't try to shake you down later or add on surprise costs at the end.

We challenge you to find any other publisher who offers the level of service we provide at Wisdom House Books with the benefits our authors receive.

Let's Talk Honestly

You might say, "But their prices are so much cheaper!"

Are they really? If you are publishing poetry or a book you will only show to your family and friends, it's best to go with one of the "cheaper" publishing factories. (Make sure you keep your copyright!) You probably won't make any profits or even make back your investment, so honestly, it's best to invest as little as possible. These publishers are easy to find on the Internet.

But if you expect to sell your books to bookstores or libraries or use your book to promote a speaking career or business, you had better invest in producing a book of the same professional quality that you would find from a traditional New York publisher. Bookstores and libraries don't buy books that appear self-published, and a poorly produced book will do more to hurt your career than help it.

So once you get the "cheap" book back from the printer, you WILL find lots of errors, and you WILL want to republish it. This time you invest in an editor. But you don't know a professional book editor from a mail clerk, and you may hire someone who is unfamiliar with book industry standards. The book goes to the printer, and you think it's all OK until a librarian tells you they can't carry your book because it's self-published. How does she know? Librarians know. They can look at the first few pages and tell by the way it's paginated, the widows and orphans, the table of contents, the number of spaces after a period, the incorrect use of serial commas, the gutter, and the bleed. So you go back again and pay to have it done better or right, if you can find your own experienced book designer, editor and proofer. Now you have run up a really high bill, and if you take your book back to the "cheap" publisher, he will tell you how much you can charge for each book and how you may print it, and then he'll take most of your royalties. You end up with a mediocre book and a big debt with little opportunity to break even.

Isn't it cheaper and easier to do it right the first time and keep all your royalties? Seems like a no-brainer to us. Wisdom House Books offers you professionally produced books and 100% of royalties. You decide what makes more sense.

Wisdom House Books

Offers 100% of Royalties!

"The price of wisdom is above rubies."

--The Bible

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it."

--David Starr Jordan

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--Stephen R. Covey

"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion." 

-- Abraham Lincoln