Many people decide that their Third Age is the right time for them to write a book, whether it be factual, fiction, or autobiographical. But how do you go about turning your publishing dreams into reality? Self Publishing has been the answer for many. It could be the answer for you!

Writersworld aims to be the “Gold Standard” of the UK print-on-demand book publishing industry in the market sector where it operates.

There is no other print-on-demand book publishing company that includes all the following services:

(i) arranges for the ISBNs (International Standard Book Number) to be issued in the author’s name, or that of the author’s publishing company, remembering that if the ISBN is not in your name, or that of your publishing company, it is akin to buying a car and putting someone else’s name on the registration documents with the result that you will never have absolute control over your book;

(ii) arranges for them to buy copies of their books at print cost only;

(iii) arranges for them to get 100% of their royalties;

(iv) permits the author to retain all the rights to their book and ownership of the completed digital book file;

(v) submits the author’s book to Amazon’s ‘Search inside this book’ programme so as to increase sales;

(vi) on the author’s behalf submits their book to the six Legal Deposit libraries;

(vii) warns the author not to expect to make a full or part-time living from the retail sales of their book i.e. through book retailers such as Amazon, Waterstone’s, WHSmith, Bowker’s etc. (the industry is notorious for deluding authors into believing they can). You will make the most profit from the bulk sales of your book which you will be able to purchase direct from the printer at actual print cost;

(viii) undertakes to produce a book in 60 days or less, with the cooperation of the author;

(ix) prints on higher quality paper than is standard for the industry for the cover and inside text or pages;

(x) undertakes to try to protect the author in the event of a libel action;

(xi) guarantees not to ask for more money once the contract has been accepted: all this in an industry notorious for sucking authors in;

(xii) provides the author with 50 complimentary copies of their book (subject to conditions as described later);

(xiii) No other print-on-demand book publisher in the UK has higher ethical standards relating to what it will or will not publish.

We believe that no other print-on-demand book publisher in our market sector operates to higher professional standards in that Writersworld issues the ISBN in the author’s name, pays the author 100% of the royalties, supplies the author with copies of their books at print cost, uses as a minimum 100gsm ultra white bond paper for its text pages, 350gsm paper for its paperback covers and where possible prints photographs and illustrations at 1200 dpi.

The paper for the text pages of our books is produced via an independent certification process that ensures that the trees from which it is produced come from well-managed sources that exclude the risk of using illegally logged timber and/or are printed on recycled paper.

Writersworld does not outsource its work outside the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland and, as a consequence, pays its sub-contractors full rates and does not exploit cheap foreign labour, as most of our market sector does.

In addition to these high standards, we at Writersworld have gained a reputation for being very particular as to the type of book we are happy to publish.

Would you please note that Writersworld is a print-on-demand, self-publishing book publisher based in the United Kingdom and is not a literary agency, so we do not accept unsolicited manuscripts or submissions.

AUTHORS WHO HAVE SELF PUBLISHED IN THE PAST
John Grisham, L. Ron Hubbard, Irma Rombauer, Richard Paul Evans, Jack Canfield, Mark Hensen, James Redfield, Beatrix Potter, Thomas Paine, Gertrude Stein, Deepak Chopra, Upton Sinclair, Henry David Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, Tom Clancy, Stephen Crane, Margaret Atwood, L. Frank Baum, William Blake, Ken Blanchard, Robert Bly, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lord Byron, Willa Cather, Pat Conroy, E.E. Cummings, W.E.B. DuBois, Alexander Dumas, T.S. Eliot, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Benjamin Franklin, Zane Grey, Thomas Hardy, E. Lynn Harris, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Robinson Jeffers, Spencer Johnson, Stephen King, Rudyard Kipling, Louis L’Amour, D.H. Lawrence, Rod McKuen, Marlo Morgan, John Muir, Anais Nin, Tom Peters, Edgar Allen Poe, Alexander Pope, Ezra Pound, Marcel Proust, Irma Rombauer, Carl Sandburg, Robert Service, George Bernard Shaw, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Strunk, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman.

It is to be noted that commercial publishing, as we know it today, did not really get its start until the middle of the 19th century and, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, until 1750 the United Kingdom produced only 100 new titles a year. It wasn’t until about 1850 that mass production brought down the cost of books, and it was 1900 before the 100 titles a year became 6,000 titles a year: so the above list of authors who have self published has to be understood in perspective. In 2009 it was estimated that there were in excess of 130,000 new book titles published in the UK, so it looks as if book publishing is here to stay.

Contact Writersworld today!

Editor, Third Age.