iUniverse - Contract & Services Reviewed in The Fine Print of Self-Publishing

http://www.iuniverse.com

FORMAT OF BOOKS: Paperback, hardcover, and ebook

GENRES ACCEPTED: All

PUBLISHING FEES: iUniverse has six publishing programs, a side-by-side comparison of which can be viewed at www.iuniverse.com/Packages /PackageCompare.aspx. Interestingly, all prices given below are for online submissions; add $100 per package for mailed submissions.

Select Package: This package (http://www.iuniverse.com/Packages /Select.aspx) costs $599, and includes:

• ISBN

• Ebook setup

• Webpage in the iUniverse online bookstore

• PDF proof and one round of corrections

• Books shipped after three days of production time

• Distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor

• Volume discount for authors

• Twenty-five black-and-white images

• Your choice of trim size:

5" x 8" 5.5" x 8.5" 6" x 9" 7.5" x 9.25" 8.25" x 11"

• Access to myuniverse.com, the publisher's online distribution and royalty monitoring system, and quarterly sales reports

• Five free copies of the book

Premier Package: This package (http://www.iuniverse.com/Packages /Premier.aspx) is $1,099. It includes everything in the Select Package, plus:

• Editorial evaluation: the publisher will recommend an appropriate level of editing, which you can then purchase.

• Editor's Choice Recognition Program, which makes you eligible for the Star Program, Rising Star, and Reader's Choice programs (detailed below)

• iUniverse's Star Program eligibility, which, if you are selected for the Editor's Choice program and sell more than five hundred books, includes:

- Professional cover reassessment, back cover revision

- Professional edit

- LCCN

- Listing in separate Star Program section of iUniverse's website

- Presentation to traditional publishers, book clubs, international publishers, audio book publishers, and large print publishers

• Barnes & Noble's "See Inside" listing

• Ten free copies of the book

Premier Pro Package: This package (http://www.iuniverse .com/Packages/PremierPro.aspx) is $1,549. It includes all prod­ucts and services in the Premier Package, plus:

• Twenty free paperback books

• One free hardcover book

• Eligibility for the Rising Star Program, which, if chosen, includes:

- Marketing Tool Kit and Marketing Success Workbook, which is a guide to marketing your book; a $49 value

- Worldwide distribution

- Featured in the Rising Star catalog and Rising Star section of iUniverse bookstore

- Booksellers Return Program (softcover only)

Bookstore Premier Pro Package: This package (http://www.iuniverse .com/Packages/BookstorePremierPro.aspx) is $2,099 and includes all services and products in the Premier Package, plus:

• Booksellers Return Program

Online Premier Pro Package: This package (http://www.iuniverse .com/Packages/OnlinePremierPro.aspx) costs $3,150 and includes all services and products in the Bookstore Premier Pro Package, plus:

• Forty free paperback books

• Ten free hardcover books

• Author website

• Copyright registration

• LCCN

• Google/Amazon Book Search

• Social media marketing setup, in which iUniverse sets you up with a blog, as well as a profile on Facebook, Flickr, Myspace, and other online social networking sites

Book Launch Premier Pro Package: This package (http://www .iuniverse.com/Packages/BookLaunchPremierPro.aspx) costs $4,200 and includes all services and products in the Online Premier Pro Package, plus:

• Sixty free paperback books

• Twenty free hardcover books

• Author website