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Print On Demand
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Manuscript FAQ
Don't already have your manuscript
digitized? We offer that service!
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!
We
have been a printer, publisher and
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, 48, 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
One copy of a 40 page/20 sheet, softbound book with b/w printing and cover: |
| Publisher |
Package |
Price/Cost |
| Gregath Company |
$2.80 print, $2.50 bind |
$5.30
with full support (online, phone or mail) |
| 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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Sources:
Gregath POD Price List 3-19-2009
Other companies as reported in AP item: The Joplin Globe (Joplin, MO),
1-2-2008
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 In print
Electronic
Click Here
For POD Quotation Request Form
Dear Copyright Holder,
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,
Carrie Ann Cook
from our family to yours!
Click here for another Gregath open letter.
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The
Digital Payment Policy (click
here for 100+ orders)
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.
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A Shipping and
Handling Deposit (click here for 100+ orders) 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 included in digital
customers deposit.
The
Manuscript Return Fee covers the
USPS return of the original manuscript, photos, etc. and is an add on
service with print on demand - due to the nature of the
project. If manuscript return is not
chosen and provided as hard copy, the manuscript will be retained a
short time after publication and then destroyed. If digital
manuscript is submitted by CD or DVD, the disk will be filed for approximately 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. If a release is not in any box of the order, the publisher
should be notified immediately.
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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.
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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.
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Click here for quotation request form
For more suggestions
on this subject and more, order our book:
G550-$20.00
WRITING Family History Or Genealogy For Pleasure and Profit
Complete Edition, by Gregath Company,
Inc.,
2011. ISBN:
978-0-944619-00-1, 8˝x11",
softbound book, 132 pages, suggestions & examples of all facets of your project
for the typist and/or computer user. 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.
Also available on disk. | Click here for more
information.| G550-$20.00
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January 26, 2012
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