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Mark now uses:- Letterpress, Thermography, Full Colour Digital, Metallic Foil, Single colour Screen Printing, Signs, Vehicles and Posters. Folding, Creasing, Cutting, Perforating, Laminating, Perfect Binding, Stapling & Stitching. Printing on many materials; paper and card, glass, wood, metal, plastic, TyvekTM wristbands, and much more. Graham makes little wedding favour boxes.

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 Press are publishers, who print books on demand. In so doing, risk, whilst remaining, is minimised. The costs involved are a combination of preparation of the book for printing, designing the cover, providing a copy for the British Library and making the book available for sale. 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 bew to find a different 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, once issued with an ISBN (International Standard Book Number), as this will increase the chance of sales by quite a large factor. Catseye 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 Press will pay the fee. print the book and send it with the appropriate paperwork. After that, as each reader buys a book, Catseye 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 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 a text format, with each chapter in it's own text file. If the author has a pre-set idea of the design desired, then there is freedom to do so. Just ask Catseye 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 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. Try to design your own cover, if you can, so that the book looks the way you, the author envisage it. Catseye Press cannot promise to use your design in part or in whole, but would much prefer to do so, if possible. Contact Catseye Press, by telephone, when you are ready to submit your book. We love to talk. Catseye Private Press will add the imprint and prepare your book for publication. Once a good idea of demand has been established, Catseye Press can allocate an ISBN. Catseye Press will not seek to enter into an exclusive contract with the author. If the author decides, at any time, to change publisher, Catseye Press will not object. If the author desires to employ another publisher, the work remains the author’s property. Catseye 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 Press if he/she sells the rights to the publication. Otherwise, Catseye Press will continue 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 are 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 will 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. Catseye Press are not here to charge the author, but to charge the reader for books. As a result, there are no set-up fees. Anybody at all who wants to buy a book will pay Catseye Press and Catseye Press will pay royalties to the author. That is all! Spelling it out There is a down-side for authors wishing to sell thousands without doing any selling for themselves. Catseye 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 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 at the time that each book is ordered.

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