The price of your book depends on the book size, number of pages, front cover design and binding style. There are additional charges for photographs in your book. For a quick preview of your costs, click here for a demonstration. At the time you configure your actual order, you will be given a cost based on the options you select. If you want to look at pricing a sample book, go to our pricing page. To get a rough idea, to produce 200 copies of a 200 page book 5 ½ x 8 ½ inches your cost would be $4.92 per book. This price includes a single color cover with a photograph, and perfect bound. Tennessee residents will have sales tax added to their final billing. The 5.5x8.5 book size is the most cost effective size we offer. You can estimate shipping charges to you area by clicking this link.

We offer four standard page book sizes: 4¼" x 7"; 5½" x 8½ "; 6" x 9"; and 8 ½" x 11". We have clearly marked the page size with templates for each size of book. Cover templates are also available for the type of binding you select. After you select the size of book you want to publish, it is recommended that you print a copy of the template for the book size you plan to publish and make sure your copy area will fit within the shaded area. You will just center the pages in the shaded area and we will shift them left or right to compensate for the binding edge margin. Custom sizes available, you will be charged for the next size up on the pricing calculator and you will be responsible for layout of your special size.

We offer several binding options for your book. Perfect Binding; Double Wire; Plastic Wire; Plastic Comb; Saddle Stitch and 3-ring binding. We also offer 3 hole punching for customers who just want the pages printed. Our 3-ring binders are also sold separately for those who want a custom binder for their book.

Our standard text paper is 60# acid-free Accent Opaque Warm White (also called smooth opaque off-white). Most bookstore quality books are printed on this type of paper. We do offer, however, 60# smooth white paper as an option at no additional cost. Cover stock is 12pt cover stock with liquid lamination, UV coating at no additional cost. With $0.25/Book extra cost, plastic lamination is still available as an optional choice for your cover finishing.

The cover for your book is a very important selling tool. You can have a great story to tell, but if the cover fails to draw attention, the book will not sell. All large book publishers and distributors look for an attractive cover and book title. Good designs are what make buyers reach for the product.

Instantpublisher.com customers have three choices to make in cover design. The first, a black and white design printed on white cover stock can be designed in your Microsoft Windows-based program and can be the first and last page of the copy you upload to the web. This means that page 2 and next to last page will be blank unless you want printing on the inside front and inside back cover. If you have a black and white photo, you can place a low resolution copy in your text document and email a high resolution EPS or TIF file, referencing your order number.

The second selection for cover design would be one of Instantpublisher.com's full color designs. If you chose this selection on your order, you will be given a screen to complete the information you want imprinted and the cover design you selected.

The third choice is customer full color design front cover. You will be given a screen for your copy and email address for the cover information. Customer full color photo or art designs can be printed on your front cover. All photographs for the cover should be scanned and saved as EPS or TIF files at 300 dpi. Instantpublisher.com also offers custom cover design services at an affordable price if you need help.

Each binding style has its own template. The perfect binding is used for paperback books and is the standard book style we offer at no additional charge. This binding is great for novels and short stories. The base cost includes your design printed in black ink at no additional charge. Additional ink colors are available for an additional charge. Instantpublisher.com has a number of full color cover designs that can be personalized with your wording.

Line art for the front cover should be scanned at 600 dpi. If you elect to have Instantpublisher.com provide an ISBN number and EAN bar code, the placement of the ISBN bar code should be taken into consideration when your design is submitted. The bar code must be printed in black ink and placed on a white background area measuring 2 3/8 x 1 3/8 inches. The white space should be at least 7/16 inch from the bottom of the cover printing. Instantpublisher.com will e-mail you your ISBN number and EAN bar code so you can position it with your back cover art. The ISBN number has to be printed on the copyright page within your book.

We use a liquid lamination (UV Coating) 12 point cover stock that is very durable and gloss for extra protection. At an extra $0.25 per book cost, you can select plastic lamination as an optional choice. Please refer to the cover templates for the size of book you plan to publish. The center spine on a perfect bound book is determined by the number of pages in your book. If the cover is the wrong size, you will have to correct it and resubmit because it will not fit your book. When you enter your book on the pricing information screen, a template will be generated for the size of the book, number of pages, and the binding style you select. Please use this template when you design your cover to ensure that your cover is the proper size.

Black ink line art either within the text or as a cover will be printed for no additional charge. Our process utilizes a Hewlett Packard LaserJet printer driver with a maximum resolution of 600 dots-per-inch (DPI), which produces acceptable quality for most line art and photographs. If in doubt, print your document from your library viewer (utilizing the 'Direct Print' option) to a Hewlett Packard LaserJet or compatible printer and view the quality. Please note that all text pages are printed with black ink only. Color photographs are not available within the text area. For cover art, all photographs should be scanned and sent as EPS or TIFF 300 dpi files. A full color photo design on the front cover (Customer Full Color Cover Design) is priced according to the size of the order. See the pricing chart here for more information.

Instantpublisher.com can print from any Microsoft Windows-based or Apple Macintosh-based software. However, many word processing programs do not accept high quality photograph scans like the graphics programs: QuarkXPress, Adobe Illustrator or PhotoShop. If your cover design contains photographs and you want high quality printing, you will have to design the cover in one of the three programs listed above. Microsoft Word will accept photos within the text; however, when printed the quality is limited to 600 dots-per-inch. You can quickly tell the quality by printing the file to your local printer.

The best way to produce a book is go to a bookstore and look at as many page designs as possible. Your book should start with a title page, followed by the copyright page. The title page typically includes the title, subtitle, name of publisher and author. The copyright page must contain Copyright © followed by the year and name of who the copyright is filed under. Example: title page and copyright page. One frequently quoted source is Strunk & White's "The Elements of Style" at http://www.strunkandwhite.com If you have questions about type for your text pages, you might look at http://www.adobe.com/type/ for ideas. Your cover can optionally be full color, but all content pages will be printed in black ink only.

Listing the publisher (your name) and printer on the copyright page is standard in the book publishing industry. The book would be printed by Instantpublisher.com.

All books are priced by the number of pages. Many books will have special pages such as table of contents: foreword or introduction: glossary or index. There again, you are the publisher and have full control of how the pages will look and in what order they appear in you book. Do not use too many fonts, especially on the same page and never use all caps.

Instantpublisher.com is the only paper book publisher that will list your book on the internet free of charge so the first 20 pages can be viewed by book brokers from around the world. We will list by title, author and then make available the first 20 pages. If a large bookstore chain or book broker becomes interested in your work, they will contact us and we will in turn pass the information on to you. We have an active e-mail list of several thousand bookstores, book brokers and large publishing houses that we will send new listing to every Friday. We are not only helping our customers find sales but are helping large book publishing houses find talented writers.

You have to have the copyright information printed on the second page of the book. The area must say Copyright ©2001 John Doe, All Rights Reserved. If you have an ISBN or Library of Congress number they must also appear on this page. Just refer to any book in a bookstore and you will see the copyright along with the ISBN number. For more information contact http://www.loc.gov/copyright/

The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is the 10 digit number on the back of a book. This number identifies the publisher and the book title. Booksellers use this number to order, price and keep track of inventory. An EAN bar code is your ISBN transferred into an OCR scanable image. Instantpublisher.com can provide both the ISBN and the EAN bar code for your book. Click here to see an example ISBN/EAN number. Please remember that Instantpublisher.com can assign an ISBN number to your book. You must purchase an ISBN number before your book is submitted for print so you can enter the ISBN number on the second page and on the outside back cover. Instantpublisher.com has a flat fee of $75 to print the ISBN number and the EAN bar code on your book. Visit our ISBN number request page by clicking on the button below. Please remember that if you have Instantpublisher.com provide your ISBN number, Instantpublisher.com is the publisher of record of your book. However, if you want a different publishing company as the official publisher of record, you will have to obtain an ISBN number in your company name from R.R. Bowker.