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Anybody can now have a book published, without an established track-record The publisher is generally the person or body who takes the financial risk in making a product available. For example, if a product went on sale and sold no copies at all, the Publisher is usually the person or body who loses money. If you get paid anyway, you are likely to be a designer, printer, author or consultant of some kind. Catseye Private Press are publishers, who print books on demand. In so doing, risk, whilst remaining, is minimised. The costs involved are connected with preparation of the book for printing. Pioneers Skies (the design company with whom we are closely affiliated) design the cover in association with the author and at the expense of Catseye Private Press. Catseye Private Press allocate an ISBN, provide The British Library with their copy of the book and make it available for sale to the public. It is 'print-on-demand' which makes this system, which rarely refuses a publication, feasible. Some of our most famous authors have set out by writing what they felt were important works, but thought might not sell terribly well. Some of those works have ended up selling very well indeed. If that happens to you, the best advice would be to find a different, bigger, publisher. that's perfectly OK with us. We will just be pleased to have helped to set the ball rolling, so to speak. Other self-publishing authors have ended up lumbered with hundreds of books and a huge bill. Thanks to latest technology, any book can be printed on demand, as readers buy them. Most books with a reasonable chance of success would do best with an ISBN (International Standard Book Number), as this will increase the chance of sales by quite a large factor. Catseye Private Press will issue an ISBN if and when reasonable expectations have been raised. All publications must be made available to The British Library as a matter of course. Catseye Private Press will pay the fee. print the book and send it with the appropriate paperwork. After that, as each reader buys a book, Catseye Private Press will print the book as demanded and despatch it, direct, to the buyer. We then send Royalties direct to the author's Paypal account as each sale is made. It is for the author to set the Royalties rate on a per-book basis. Clearly that is a business decision, which Catseye Private Press will not seek to influence. It will be obvious that the Royalty rate may have an effect upon sales. Royalty rates can be changed at the whim of the author at any time (although not in retrospect to apply to books already sold). How to get started Type your book in any text format, with each chapter in it's own file. If the author has a pre-set idea of the design desired, then there is freedom to do so. Just ask Catseye Private Press, before comitting to a format. Collect any pictures you want in your book and mark the place at which each picture has to be printed so that Catseye Private Press can position it where you want it. The best quality images available should be sent. The ownership of copyrights to these pictures must be firmly established. Catseye Private Private Press will seek to honour all copyright. Copyright can only be transfered or ascribed by agreement, in writing. Try to design your own cover, if you can, so that the book looks the way you, the author envisage it. Catseye Private Press can use your design in part or in whole and will pass it, for final refinement to Pioneers Skies. Contact Catseye Private Press, by telephone, when you are ready to submit your book. We love to talk. Catseye Private Press will add the imprint, insert the pictures and prepare your book for publication. Catseye Private Press will allocate an ISBN. Catseye Private Press will not seek to enter into an exclusive contract with the author. If the author decides, at any time, to change publisher, Catseye Private Press will not object. If the author desires to employ another publisher, the work remains the author’s property, so there is no problem in this respect, whatever. Catseye Private Press always hate to loose a customer, but it is a measure of success when a book's sales excede our ability to print-on-demand (imagine us trying to print a (certain famous wizard's) book on demand? We'd be working night and day without rest. If your book sells like that, an author would be well advised to change publisher. This system enables the author to dip a toe in the water, so to speak) It is the responsibility of the author to inform Catseye Private Press if he/she sells the rights to the publication. Otherwise, Catseye Private Press might continue, unwittingly, to offer the book for sale and continue to send Royalty payments to the author, as and when books are sold, as long as demand does not excede supply and until asked to stop, by the author. To give some idea, runs of around 1000 copies are our maximum at any one order. One is fine, as are orders for 10,000 books, spread over any one year! Your book may be offered for sale on the Internet. Anybody searching for your book using it's ISBN, once it has one, will contact Catseye Private Press (your publisher) to buy. As each purchase is made, Catseye Private Press will despatch the book and make a payment to the author of the royalties via the author’s Paypal account. All payments, both for book and of royalties are strictly in advance of printing. All credit or debit card payments are handled using Paypal. Paypal accounts are not usually necessary for buyers with a credit or debit card. If they have one, all well and good. Authors will need a Paypal account. Orders for books can be placed over the Internet or over the telephone. Authors are asked to ensure that spelling and grammar is exactly as they want to have their book published. Reading and correction is not a responsibilty accepted by Catseye Private press. Catseye Private Press are not here to charge the author, but rather to charge the purchaser, for books. As a result, there are no set-up fees. Anybody at all who wants to buy a book will pay Catseye Private Press and Catseye Private Press will pay royalties to the author. The author may buy copies at the price, excluding royalty fee. That is all! Spelling it out There is a down-side for authors wishing to sell thousands without doing any selling for themselves. Catseye Private Press are not a marketing company. We are a company who make books available to those who want them. If an author wants their book actively and powerfully marketed, then Catseye Private Press is not for them. I hope that is clear. Having said the above, Catseye Press will not, in any way, take ownership of the copyright. That remains entirely and permanently with the author, as far as we are conserned. Authors wishing to employ a publisher at an time, which will acitvely market their book need, simply, instruct Catseye Press to cease publication, and we will, without question. It is also vital that authors who sell their copyrights inform us immediately, in order to prevent theft of copyright from the purchaser. Did I say? Authors set their own Royalties; Payment for which is made at the time that each book is ordered and paid for.

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