About Self-Publishing

Our Purpose is to Help You Be Successful as an Author

While it is the desire of most aspiring authors to contract with a major royalty publisher for the publishing of their book, self-publishing is another option. Self-publishing means that you contract with a publishing company that publishes your work at some cost to you. Many of our self-publishing members offer far more than just the printing of your book (the old “print-on-demand” approach) and so we refer to them as partner-publishers. Each self-publisher provides a different level of service for you, their customer. With some self-publishers you have complete editorial control of the content of the book and contract with the self-publisher to handle only the printing and graphics. With other self-publishers, the services can include editing, illustrating, cover design, marketing and distribution. You, the author, are responsible for a portion or all of the costs of these services depending on the publisher and your choice of their package of offerings.

Within the Bowker Manuscript Submissions service, self-publishing is the general term referring to publishing options that require an outlay of money by the author. You are given the opportunity within the proposal form to choose whether you want your manuscript proposal to made available to self-publishers.

"To Self-Publish—Or Not"
by Jeanette Windle

“Publishing Basics eBook”
By Self Publishing, Inc.

“Self-Publishing FAQ”
By Self Publishing, Inc.

Publishing Basics... for the self publisher RSS feed
By Self Publishing, Inc.

"Are You Ready To Self-Publish?"
By Self Publishing, Inc.

The following companies provide self-publishing services to Bowker Manuscript Submissions:

This list is for information purposes only. Bowker Manuscript Submissions does not guarantee accuracy. Bowker Manuscript Submissions does not endorse and is not responsible for any of the individuals or organizations listed on this page. Please see the Terms of Use