Book Packaging Services
Beagle Bay, Inc. offers professional book packaging services to help both novice and experienced publishers produce the highest quality product possible. As a small publisher, you probably do not produce enough new products each year to keep a full time staff of designers and production managers busy. You could farm out individual tasks to independent contractors piecemeal, but that can be a management nightmare as you try to keep everyone on track, on schedule and on budget.
The most important thing to know about us is that we create award winning publications. Click here for samples of recent projects.
While we are more than happy to undertake discreet parts of your project, our strength is in our extensive experience in all phases of the design and production process. By using us as your design and production "back office," you can effectively leverage your resources and focus on other critical activities such as marketing, sales and new product development.
For those seeking even more comprehensive consulting services from concept development to ultimate sales, we offer Book Shepherding.
To give you an idea of the range of packaging services we offer, we have developed a menu of services that represents the typical steps of professional publishing. You can choose from our services "a la carte" or in packages. Our "All-In-One" package provides you with a full production and design back office so that you don’t have to manage all the details—but reap all the benefits!
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NOTE: If these terms seem unfamiliar to you, please visit our Self-publisher FAQ explanations.
What our customers say:
"[Beagle Bay's] expertise and professionalism made the process of getting my third book into print and into reviewers' hands as smooth as possible. [They] kept to their schedule (I had to keep to mine also!) to ensure publication hit our target date. The book looks great and has already garnered many awards from the publishing industry (which [Creative Minds Press] suggested we enter). I'd gladly work with them again and have already recommended them to many others looking to get books out to the marketplace.”
- Judy Gruen, author of the award-winning The Women's Daily Irony Supplement
"Every day, I can see the value of something you told me or explained to me and I feel like an insider because of your incredible knowledge and helpful advice. Probably another company could have done a book, but no other company would have provided me with so much assistance and guidance as you have that has been so invaluable and has led to increased book sales as well".
- ArborVitae Press
Contents:
Consulting
Editing and Market Evaluation
Editing Package
Book Design & Layout
Book Design Package
Website Packages
Print Brokering
Book Design and Print Package
Form Management
All-in-One Package
Publicity and Market Plans
Because each book project is different, we do not post our prices. Let us bid on YOUR book and see how competitive we are. Samples upon request.
Consulting
Many clients need a general consultation before deciding how to proceed.
Contact us for a consultation that will cover what your needs are and what direction you need to take. We offer consultations in 1, 3 and 6 hour packages, usable right away, or over time.
Please fill out the CONTACT form and specify that you would like a consultation, your name and phone number. We will give you a fee quote in the reply.
Editing and Market Evaluation
Editing
- Content editing: Makes sure style, logic and voice are clear and coherent throughout the entire manuscript, refining language/message.
- Line Editing: Spelling, punctuation and grammar.
- Final proofing (also called "light editing"): The last check for errata before it goes to typesetting.
- Blueline proofing: checking for problems in the printer’s proof before the final printing. Price + whatever the printer charges per page to make changes (usually $25 minimum).
Book Design & Layout (pre-press output)
- Cover designs: in 2- or 4-colors. Custom photography and custom illustration extra
Please see our book cover samples - Backmatter: book blurb, description, etc.
- Typesetting and interior design.
Graphics and complex layouts extra - Scanning and insertion of interior pictures, charts and graphs
Book Design Package
- Cover design 4-colors
- Backmatter
- Typesetting and interior design
- EAN/Booklan bar code
- Project Management
- Graphics and complex layouts extra
- See also our Book Design and Print Package
- See also our All-in-One Package
Editing and Book Design Package
- Content Editing
- Line Editing
- Final proofing
- Cover design 4-colors
- Backmatter
- Typesetting and interior design
- EAN/Booklan bar code
- Project Management
- Graphics and complex layouts extra
- See also our All-in-One Package
Print Brokering
- We help you decide if a short digital print run (POD) or traditional/offset print run is the most effective route for your book. ½ hour phone consultation.
- We advise clients on whether to use paperback, hardbound or ring-bound.
- Galley print runs (digital only).
- Consultation on final typeset ms. and cover.
- If manuscript and cover are not in conformation with standard professional practices (ie: margins too wide, typesetting too eccentric, improper scans of photos, cover material unprofessional, improper/lacking bar code) we will bring the product "up to snuff" for the fees for services (typesetting or cover design).
- We locate the best printing deal for your book and get the lowest freight price.
- All jobs are spec’ed to be packed in boxes of about 25 lbs. and shrink-wrapped in 4's or 6's.
- All jobs spec’ed with a 10% cover overruns (very useful for promotion).
Want to get into e-books? We do that, too!
- Cover design 4-colors
Photography and custom illustration for cover extra
Please see our book cover samples - Backmatter
- Typesetting and interior design
Graphics and complex layouts extra. - EAN/Booklan bar code
Project Management - Galley
- Print and freight brokering
- Blueline proofing
Additional fee + printer charges per page to make changes (usually $25 minimum).
- See also our All in One Package
Book Design and Print Package
Form Management
We can fill out and file the forms you need:
- ISBN prefix and log (10 number minimum). Includes Bowker fee
- Books-in-Print/BISAC codes
- LCCN (Library of Congress Control Number)
- EAN/Booklan bar code
- UPC bar code
- Copyright registration
See also our All-in-One Package
All-in-One Package
- EDITING
Content editing
Line Editing
Final proofing - BOOK DESIGN (Interior and Cover)
Cover design 4-colors
Backmatter
Typesetting and interior design
EAN/Booklan bar code - FORM MANAGEMENT
ISBN prefix and log
Books-in-Print
LCCN
EAN/Booklan bar code
Copyright registration - PRINT BROKERING
Project Management
Galley print run
Acquire Printer and Freight deals
Specify packing
10% cover overruns
Blueline proofing