Our motive to print is our own pleasure.
We use both ancient and modern processes.
We profit a little from our hobby.
Craft and technology in harmony.


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Mark & Graham Pressman

The Bungalow Cart Gap Road
Happisburgh, Norfolk NR12 0QL

Telephone 01692 582 292
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Take the risk out of Vanity Publishing

There is no reason why vanity publishing should be a risky thing to undertake.

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.

Other authors have ended up lumbered with hundreds of books. Thanks to latest technology, any book can be printed on demand, as they are bought by the reader.

Any author would be well-advised to obtain an ISBN (International Standard Book Number), as this will increase the chance of sales by quite a large factor.

All publications must be made available to The British Library as a matter of course and several others, on demand. The author will want a copy too. That makes a total of 6 copies to get you going. After that, as each reader buys a book, Catseye Private Press prints it and despatches it to the buyer. We then send Royalties direct to the author.

How to get started?

TYpe your book in a text format, with each chapter in it's own text file.

Collect any pictures you want in your book and mark the place at which each picture has to be printed so that Caytseye Press can position it where you want it. The best quality images should be sent, preferably in TIF format.

Try to design your own cover to save on art-work.

Contact Catseye Press with your files to place your order.

Catseye Private Press will add the imprint. prepare your book for publication and issue an ISBN.

Prices

Layout and jacket design at £10 per hour

ISBN £30.00 one off

Covers £4.00 per book (choice of hard back or paper back)

Printing: e.g. from £2.14 for 100 pages.

Carriage to author and libraries £cost + £2.50

Example setup costs

£20.00 setup and jacket design
£24.00 covers for first 6 books
£12.85 for first 6 books
£30.00 ISBN
£11.50 postage
£98.34 Total

What happens next?

You decide upon your Royalty rate.

Your book is provided with a web page and offered for sale on the internet.

Anybody searching for your book using it's ISBN 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 you of your royalties.

All credit or debit card payments are handled using PayPal. No PayPal account is necessary for buyers.

Orders for books can be placed over the Internet or over the telephone.


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