Glossary
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Part
I
Printed Book
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State
Part II
E-Book
Genealogy & History
Fiction
Part III
Non-Book Items in our Catalog
Other Sections
(May include Printed Book, E-Book and Other)
New
Additions
New
Reprints
Gift Services
Online
Order Form Links (SCL)
Print On Demand
Services
(POD)
Publishing FAQ
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Manuscript FAQ
If you feel like you are banging your head
against the wall trying to
produce your research/work in small
quantities for a few people,
we'd like to
help ease your way to success.
We can put our experience to work for you!
The Gregath Publish Company prides itself on being a
full service, commercial printer/publisher/bookseller since 1970. So extensive are the comprehensive services they
can not be easily broken down into simple lists. In the
past years, it has been noted that there is an increase of authors who only want a few books for
close family members, as well as those who wish to make it
available on computer.
If this is your goal or you just don’t want to “hassle” with
marketing your work to the public for a profit, a printing run of 100 may seem
like overkill. Because of this, and “quickie copy” horror stories, we
would like to help you produce your book in any
quantity you wish, on disk, or even over the Internet.
In today’s publishing world, full service means a great many things! In addition to
publishing as few books as are needed, there are almost as many options
available to the small run publishing project as large runs, order one of a
kinds, a publishing of 1, 2, 10, 27, 9
8, or your choice: on-demand. The economical
costs may be much more reasonable for publishing manuscripts in book form than
one might imagine.
Don't have money in hand today to print? Take a quote for single a book quantity and advertise your book to collect paid orders for a few weeks. Then take your money in hand and order your books! We'll even help you sell.
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Some Pricing Examples |
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| Publisher | Package | Price/Cost |
| Gregath Publishing Company | $2.40 print, $2.50 bind | $4.90 with full support (online or not) |
| Lulu | $4.53 base and .2 per page | $5.33 online |
| Blurb | Base cost | $12.95 online |
| Create Space (Amazon.com) | $3.15 base and .2 per page | $3.95 online |
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Click Here
For POD Quotation Request Form
- POD Welcome Letter
- Digital Publishing Payment Policy
- Standard Fees Policies
- Guarantee Policy
- Our Print On Demand quotation basis - to explain the specifics of our standard digital printed book product.
Dear Author,
Thank you for your interest in us in respect to your forthcoming publication. While information about our most popular services can be found online, the range of our services are so vast that not all of them have been placed on our site, so if you have additional needs, please feel free to contact us as often as is necessary to be completely confident in your work. Many small quantity publications (99 or less) benefit from digital printing in several ways. Picture heavy manuscripts can be more economical digitally printed, even if their quantity exceeds 100. Our goal is to provide you the best quality for the money and personal one on one service.
We have many textures and colors of
both soft
and hard cover materials for
you to choose from. Both soft and
hard bound books may be printed
on the spine and front in gold foil, silver foil, alternate foil, or any color
ink you
may select. While most of our basic prices are for one color covers, full color
can be achieved in soft
and hard cover, though the set up fees for small quantities can be quite high,
per book. All are very attractive. These choices are the same high quality
options provided to all of our customers, whether the order be 1 or 1,000!
Please let us know if we can help with your questions further. Our Company is always anxious to help a new client in every way with their publication. Again, thank you for your interest.
Sincerely,
Fredrea Gregath
Cook
and
Carrie Ann Cook
Click here for another Gregath open letter.
Digital Printing/Publishing Payment, Fees and Guarantee Policies
The Digital Payment Policy of this company is to accept the full estimate including shipping and handling deposit, with the manuscript. Any final adjustments that may be needed will be completed after the customer has received the book order.
A Shipping and Handling Deposit should be sent with the manuscript and estimate payment. If shipping is less than deposit, a refund will be issued after books have been received by customer. If shipping is more than deposit, customer will be billed after shipping is complete. Shipping to and from bindery is include in digital customers deposit.
The Manuscript Return Fee covers the insured return of the original manuscript, photos, etc. and is optional with print on demand - due to the nature of the project. If manuscript return is not chosen, if provided as hard copy or USB, the manuscript will be retained a short time after publication and then destroyed (or USB repurposed). If digital manuscript is submitted by CD or DVD, the disk will be filed for 10 years in our archives before destruction.
Upon receipt of the book order, the customer should check the order to assure that the correct number of books have arrived and that they are in satisfactory condition. If shipping damage has occurred, they should report it to the carrier. If manuscript return has been selected, the customer should then sign, date, and return an Original Material Release [enclosed with the book order] to the company, in order to receive their original materials by insured shipment. If a release is not in any box of the order, the publisher should be notified immediately.
Guarantees - All digital reproduction is guaranteed to be within standards and all bindings are guaranteed against defects in workmanship and materials. With regard to the occasional defective book, it is our policy to replace, repair, or adjust on such books.
Camera-Ready Digital Print Manuscript Basis (CRDPM or CRCMM): We accept two different types: From disk (USB, CD or 3˝”) in formats such as PDF, MS Word and Publisher – inquire about your format. Or, document feedable (no paste up, attachments, gummy labels, etc.), single sheets printed one side, all same size. Note: two sided manuscripts can sometimes create copy difficulties; therefore, we discourage such practices.
This is the basis of our standard print on demand quote. If you have special needs, ask for a special quote.
Click here for quotation request form
For more suggestions
on this subject and more, order our book:
WRITING Family
History Or Genealogy For Pleasure and Profit, by The Gregath
Publishing Company, *updated* 2007. ISBN: 0-944619-00-2, 8˝x11",
softbound book, 126 pages, suggestions & examples of all facets of your project
for the typist and/or computer user.
Also available on disk. | Click here for more
information.| G550-$10.00
SCL
Note: All G prefix books 100 pages or more, this one included,
that are SB can be special ordered in Library Oversewn Hardbound version -
contact
for details.
