Special offer for Amazon Connect authors: 50% off set-up fees until 30 September 2006: Find out more

ebook publishing from...
mercury
web publishing london

“Getting people

published online”

 :: our full range of publishing services and our charges

From desktop to Amazon in
less than ten weeks!




Our other services

Article Promotion - $49*

The charge (payable via PayPal) gives you free advice by email for one week, a copy of our best-practice article template (in RTF format), a list by of 20 suitable submission sites (complete with traffic and PageRanks) and submission to 5 of the most popular article mailing-list groups (used by thousands of webmasters worldwide)

Enhanced Article Service - $89

Our enhanced service includes all the elements in our standard service, plus (a) basic proofreading on up to three articles of 2,000 words, (b) submission of two articles each to three of the top article repositories on the web (along with your author profile and a picture provided by you). To do so, we will need your help in setting you up with a user log-in and password for these sites.

Web Design - £29.99 per page

We partner with Sitewiz - one of the most cost effective web design companies in the UK - to give Mercury customers great rates. Top for authors wanting to create an elegant web space you can then maintain yourself.

Web Blogs - $129 for 5 page site

Choose from five different blog templates, which we will then turn into an author blog for you. Standard pages include biography, bibliography, musings, contact & home. Includes a guide so you can then maintain youself through any web-browser.

Do-it-yourself Publishing - £8.99

This 153 pdf guide to self-publishing eBooks contains an illustrated, step-by-step guide for UK-based authors wishing to sell via Amazon in both the UK and US.


£8.99
direct from us:

 

eBook publishing services

We have a range of eBook publishing options and services to help you get your new work online as quickly and effectively as possible:

Standard Service - $199 set-up plus 45% on list*

We provide a standard Word template (optimised for eBook distribution) for you to paste your manuscript into, complete with guidelines on how to further refine this for eBook publishing. We also provide a meta-data form for you to complete, capturing the marketing material you wish to use on Amazon.

On receipt of the completed master file, we assign an ISBN, add a bar-code and a full-colour cover (with the image your provide). We then convert the master for you into fully bookmarked Adobe PDF and Microsoft Reader formats (most popular on the web).

Our standard service is for distribution of those finished eBooks
via Ingrams to Amazon.com, Diesel-Ebooks.com, eBookmall.com and Powells.com. We then add the cover image and metadata you have provided to the online Amazon record.

* We charge 55% on the list price of each of your books sold up to
  200 copies, then 45% on sales over 200 copies. This covers both
  the 25% levied by Ingrams (for distribution) and our own charges.
  Your first royalties become payable 90 days after your first sale
  (industry standard; reflecting Ingram’s own terms). You will
  receive a monthly statement by email of sales made and your
  royalty payments are sent to you by PayPal.

Premium Service - $369 set-up plus 45% on list*

Our premium offer includes all of the standard service offering items above. In addition, we will convert your manuscript for you into an e-book optimised master file. Will we also design a simple and elegant cover for you (using royalty free images) and write compelling and professional marketing copy for your back page and Amazon book record. Online, the marketing copy is key to driving strong sales; and our professionals know just how to make that work for you! Finally, we will liaise with Amazon for you to set-up “search-inside-the-book” functionality.

Extended Distribution - $69 set-up plus 55% on list*

As an optional add-on to either standard our premium services, we can additionally distribute your eBook via Content Reserve (for WHSmith, Fictionwise, eFollett.com, and eBooks.com), Lulu.com and Mobipocket.com. As most of these services charge storage costs and/or higher distribution royalties, we hold our charges at 55% (even if sales go over 200 copies) to cover our costs.

Proofreading Editorial Service - $389

For books of up to 100,000 words, we offer a a basic proofreading program for authors interested in having their work evaluated on a technical level (sold separately to the services above). For this charge, a professional editor will proof your manuscript for spelling, grammar and structure.

DOWNLOAD OUR FULL BROCHURE (PDF FORMAT) | Contact Us

Launch Currency Translator for UK customers                 © Mercury Web Publishing London 2005. All rights reserved.