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The following list of short and long run printers and publishers is for your reference. It is not exhaustive and inclusion here should not be taken as an endorsement. The unique qualities of each need to be carefully considered with your particular needs for format, turnaround times, production limitations and costs in mind.
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360 Digital Books
Keith Reisinger, 8089 Stadium Dr., Suite C, Kalamazoo, MI 49009 Tel: 866-379-8767; Fax: 734-591-7899; e-mail: kreisinger@360inc.com.
"Short run book manufacturing, 25 copies and up. Paperback and casebound."
A&A Printing
Billy Ashby, 6103 Johns Road #5-6, Tampa FL 33634; 813-886-0065; 866-886-0065; Fax: 813-884-0304. Email: billy@printshopc.entral.com Caters to self-publishers and first-time authors for short-run book printing in runs from 50 to 3,000. Capabilities include digital and offset printing as well as short-run four-color book printing.
Advantage Media Group
Benjamin Toy, P O Box 272, Charleston SC 29402; 843-414-5600; 800-848-3180; Fax: 843-414-5610. Email: btoy@advantageww.com. Motto: We bring dreams to life. Works especially with professional speakers, providing on-demand, self-publishing, and co-publishing services.
Adibooks
Thomas G. Campbell, 181 Industrial Ave., Lowell, MA 01852 Tel: 978-458-2345; Fax: 978-458-3026; e-mail: tcampbell@kingprinting.com.
"Complete printing for both soft/hardbound books, short run, instant pricing. http://www.kingprinting.com"
Alexander's Print Advantage
Gwen Gades, 245 South 1060 West, Lindon UT 84042; 801-224-8666; 800-574-8666; Fax: 801-224-0446. Email: gweng@alexanders.com. On-demand digital printing as well as offset printing.
Alumni Graphics, Inc.
Sonny Spencer, 1560 Newbury Road, @230, Newbury Park, CA 91320 Tel: 877-336-7244; Fax: 805-499-4319; e-mail: Sonny51@aol.com.
"We specialize in printing and binding books, directories, catalogs and journals. "
Ames On-Demand
Jose Colon, 12 Tyler Street, P O Box 120, Somerville MA 02143-0120; 617-684-1132; Cell: 617-501-1879. Email: jcolon@amesondemand.com. On-demand books, perfectbound or wire-o.
Angel Printing
Vladimir Medvinsky, CEO, 237 Luiseno Avenue, Oceanside CA 92057; 760-967-0492; Fax: 760-967-0496. Email: vladimir@angelprint.com or books@angelprint.com. “We offer 1 to full color offset and digital printing services. In-house we produce short run book printing, and work with web-printing facilities to produce large book printing orders. Angel Printing also offers graphic design capabilities, which most authors find extremely useful.” Also printing on recycled papers with soy-based inks.
Annex Print and Mail Solutions
Jeff Lazerus, Director, Digital and Imaging, 4721 Ironton Street, Unit A, Denver CO 80239; 303-393-1883. Full-color high-quality books for the short-run and print-on-demand market.
Apex Book Manufacturing
Almad Meradji, CEO, Alpharetta GA. Email: ahmad@apexbm.com. Opened for business on April 1, 2007
Author House
Director of Author Promotions, 1663 Liberty Drive #200, Bloomington IN 47403; 812-339-6000; 800-839-8640; Fax: 812-339-6554. Publishes 500 to 600 titles each month. Writers retain all rights (and are free to publish elsewhere as well). Royalties go as high as 30%. Among their authors are Amanda Brown, author of Legally Blonde; Buddy Ebsen, author of Kelly's Quest; and Thomas Hargrove, author of Long March to Freedom.
Automated Graphic Systems
Adam Rutkowski, Manager, Print-On-Demand Department, 4590 Graphics Drive, White Plains MD 20695; 301-843-1800, ext. 522; 800-678-8760; Fax: 301-843-6339. Email: info@ags.com. Ohio Office: 8107 Bavaria Road, Macedonia OH 44056; 330-963-7770; 800-362-6134; Fax: 330-963-7771. Owned by Consolidated Graphics. Provides customers with the ability to build an online digital library where they can order books from quantities of 5 to 500 with a variety of binding options (perfect, plasticoil, wire-o, and saddlestitched.
Aventine Press
Brion Sausser, Managing Editor. Email: editor@aventinepress.com. “Aventine Press is only a little over two years old, but in that time we have published in excess of 100 titles, many of which by previously published authors. Our goal however, has never been to become a mill to churn out vast numbers of titles. We take pride that in our brief history numerous independent reviewers have given our company high marks in quality, value, and customer care.”
Axess Purchasing Solutions
Print on Demand Division, Edward Busse, Director Sales/Marketing, P. O. Box 500835, Atlanta GA 31150; 770-521-9939; Fax: 770-521-6022. Email: axess@mail.vu. “We specialize in short, medium, and long runs (100 - 100,000), and can perfect-bind or case-bind to all sizes (5.5 x 8.5, 6 x 9, 7x10 and 8.5 x 11). We have both digital equipment and offset equipment to maximize each end of the printing spectrum and provide impressive pricing and turn-around times.”
BeWrite Books
A on-submission POD publisher that accepts about 20% of the submitted materials, charges nothing for the author to be published with them, appears to do great covers, and works well with authors.
Blitzprint Inc.
Pete Friebel, Vice President, Book Division, 1235 64th Avenue SE #3, Calgary AB Canada T2H 2J7; 866-479-3248; Fax: 403-253-5642. Email: pfriebel@blitzprint.com. “We are a no-nonsense POD manufacturer, with a focus on helping authors print top quality books, not collecting upfront fees.”
Blurb.com
Eileen Gittins, CEO. This San Francisco company raised $2 million in venture capital. It does not charge authors any up-front fees. Instead, it provides free software that allows people to design their own books. Prices start at $29.95 for books of 1 to 40 pages and rise to $79.95 for books of 301 to 440 pages. They just signed an agreement with Chronicle Books to get all their over-the-transom rejections for possible referrals. If authors sign up for Blurb's services, Chronicle gets a cut on any income.
BookBlocks
Kumar Persad, 71 Tenbroeck Avenue, Kingston NY 12401; 845-331-7581; 800-836-7581, ext. 111; Fax: 845-331-1571. Email: info@bookblocks.com. Offers low-cost digital books in B&W or color, quantities from 1 to 1,000.
BookMasters, Inc.
Sherry Ringler, 30 Amberwood Parkway, Ashland, OH 44805 Tel: 800-537-6727; Fax: 419-589-4040; e-mail: info@bookmasters.com. http://www.bookmasters.com
"Specializing in high-quality, one- to four-color offset and digital printing with flexible schedules and competitive pricing. Bindings include paper cover, hardcover, Otabind, saddle stitch, spiral, twin loop, GBC comb, and trim-four/drill-three for loose-leaf binders. " BookMobile.com Nicole Baxter, 2402 University Avenue West #206, Saint Paul MN 55114; 800-752-3303; Fax: 612-677-3271. Email: nbaxter@bookmobile.com. A digital printer since 1996, they provide on-demand printing of books and bound galleys. Their Digital Print Overnight Distribute service promises Internet sales, instant printing, and overnight delivery. Customers include Oxford University Press, Graywolf Press, and Copper Canyon Press. They also provide a distribution and fulfillment service called Itasca Books; web: http://www.itascabooks.com.
BooksJustBooks.com
Ron Pramschufer, 51 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017 Tel: 800-621-2556; Fax: 212-681-8002; e-mail: ron@rjcom.com. http://www.selfpublishing.com
"Print buying service. Presstime bought in bulk & resold below market. "
BookSurge
5341 Dorchester Road #16, North Charleston SC 29418; 843-853-8310; 866-308-6235; Email: monty@BookSurge.com. The parent company of Digitz.net (see below) and GreatUNpublished.com (also see below), it is attempting to build the world's largest ebookstore. It currently publishes 1500 titles via its own imprints and distributes another 5,000 titles from more than 250 other publishers. In June 2002, they announced a partnership with R.R. Bowker to provide POD books via BooksInPrint.com, BookWire.com, and other Bowker web sites. They now provide full-color POD printing in 8x5 and 7x10 print sizes (requires an initial fee of $499). For more information, see: http://www.imprintbooks.com/cmyk. Check out their rating with the Better Business Bureau.
Central Plains Book Manufacturing
Strother Field, 22234 C Street, Winfield KS 67156; 877-278-2726; Fax: 316-221-4762. This book printer also offers print-on-demand via a Xerox Docutech and various binding options.
Cold Tree Press
Peter Honsberger, COO; 615-353-7800. Email: ph@coldtreepress.com. Their mission statement: “We are an independent print-on-demand publishing services group dedicated to providing a resource for writers who endeavor to achieve the highest quality in bringing their words to the marketplace in book form, with a partner whose foundation is based on honesty, integrity and professionalism.”
Color House Graphics
Phil Knight, 3505 Eastern Avenue SW, Grand Rapids, MI 49508 Tel: 800-454-1916; Fax: 616-245-5494; e-mail: PKnight@colorhousegraphics.com. http://www.ColorHouseGraphics.com
"Short run digital and sheet-fed offset book manufacturing. One, two and four colors printing with and all available binding styles."
Commercial Communications
1225 Walnut Ridge Drive, Hartland WI 53029; 262-369-6000; 800-DOCUTECH; Fax: 262-369-5647.Chicago: 540 Mitchell Road, Glendale Heights IL 60139; 630-942-8077; Fax: 630-942-8099. Phoenix: 3445 South 5th Street, Phoenix AZ 85040; 602-268-1500; Fax: 602-268-4580. Email: info@comcom.com. A document management company that provides print-on-demand, including digital printing, web printing, and sheet offset printing of manuals, brochures, catalogs, books, directories, and guides. Full-service bindery. They do soft cover books for 6x9 as well as other sizes. They have 11 docutechs, web presses for 32-page signatures, and more.
Consolidated Reprographics
Susanne D'Arcy, Digital Printing Consultant, 3182 Pullman Street, Costa Mesa CA 92626; 714-751-2680; 714-966-2164. Email: sdarcy@consrepro.com. Short run digital printing.
Copresco, Steve Johnson. Email: steve@copresco.com. On demand printing of books and manuals.
Crane Duplicating Services
Dick Price, President, 947 Main Street (Route 28), South Harwich MA 02661; 508-958-4877; Fax: 508-760-1544.
Email: dick@craneduplicating.com.
Web: http://www.boundgalleys.com. Specialty: galley copies. Founded in 1952.
CreateSpace
Amazon.com's publish-on-demand service which offers no set-up fees, no minimum orders, plus you keep the rights. You can publish books, DVDs, audio CDs, audiobooks, video downloads, and more via this service. Details here: https://www.createspace.com/
Cushing-Malloy, Inc.
Thomas L. Dorow, 1350 North Main Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Tel: 734-663-8554; Fax: 734-663-5731; e-mail: tdorow@cushing-malloy.com. http://www.cushing-malloy.com
"Complete book manufacturing services since 1948. "
DeHart's Printing Services Corporation
Don Dehart, 3333 Bowers Avenue #130, Santa Clara CA 95054; 408-961-4297; 888-982-4763; Fax: 408-982-9912. Email: leads@deharts.com. Offers on-demand and offset printing from 25 to 2,500 copies, one or two-color text. Bindings: perfect, casebound, saddlestitched, wire-o, or spiral.
DiggyPod
Tim Simpson, 1382 Industrial #8, Saline MI 48176; 734-944-7844; Fax: 734-429-3309. Email: tim@diggypod.com. Print on demand printers. They also print galley copies. “We actually have been doing some POD printing for some large book manufacturers, and they love what we have been doing for them.”
Documation LLC
Roy Fuerstenberg, President, 1556 International Drive, Eau Claire WI 54701; 715-839-8899; 800-951-6729; Fax: 715-836-7411. They produce books on demand (from one at a time) to runs up to 25,000 copies. They provide perfect binding, plastic coil or wire-o, saddle-stitch, or ring binders.
Document Technologies
Document Technologies, Inc. (DTI) is the largest independent provider of on-site facilities management services and electronic data discovery solutions servicing top law firms and corporations nationwide. Combining the expertise and commitment of seasoned industry veterans with a full suite of best-of-breed technologies, DTI delivers comprehensive services to clients through locations across the U.S.
DocuNet Inc.
Buddy Kirschner, President, 800-644-5566 #24. Email: bkirschner@netudoc.com. Founded in 1977, this company specializes in short-run print on demand. Customers include Simon & Schuster, Pearson Education, and Prentice Hall. Services include scanning, CD burning, file storage, digital printing (B&W and color), and many binding options.
Dreams Publishing
Toni Child, Publisher. Email: Toni@dreamspublishing.com. “We want authors that have a different kind of story to tell. We want Authors who want to be published in electronic and print media. We need authors who are willing to promote their books worldwide. We also so POD publishing.”
eBookStand
Marilyn Jenkins, President, 11700 Mukilteo Speedway #201, Mukilteo WA 98275; 425-315-1434; Fax: 425-315-8835. Email: info@cyberread.com. Founded in 1996 as a POD publisher, they print books in trade paperback and hardcover. Their publishing programs start at $449 (including 52 copies of the book plus an ecommerce web page. A division of CyberRead, eBookstand authors have access to their ebook publishing programs.
Edition One Studios
Ben Zlotkin, 3362 Adeline Street, Berkeley CA 94703; 510-597-0102. Email: ben@editiononestudios.com. Custom book makers, hard and softcover, with lots of decoration options and materials. In-house 4-color, case-making, binding, and finishing. Average runs of 50 copies.
Edwards Brothers, Inc. Mark Livesay, 2500 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Tel: 734-913-1216; Fax: 734-913-1338; e-mail: mLivesay@edwardsbrothers.com. http://www.edwardsbrothers.com
"4th Generation family-owned, top quality paperback or hardcover books, 1 or 2 color text, ask about “Life.of.Title”."
Elcorsy Technology
Elcorsy Technology Inc. develops a digital printing technique called elcography. Elcography is a filmless and plateless computer-to-print fully digital printing technology. Elcorsy Technology Inc. was founded in 1981 and is based in St-Laurent, Canada. 514-337-6573
Express Press
David Clar, 1279 Chili Avenue, Rochester NY 14624; 585-235-8775; 877-552-5047. Full service, color digital printer using HP Indigo technology.
Fidlar Doubleday
Tom Burkhardt, General Manager, Kalamazoo MI; 800-248-0888. Offers print on demand and commercial offset printing for all business and publishing needs, including full-color digital printing. Can do books of any size, vertical as well as horizontal layouts. Wide variety of binding options, including perfect, wire-o, saddlestitch, comb, ring, and casebound.
First Choice Books
Melanie Perkins. Email: graphic@firstchoicebooks.ca. Offer on-demand publishing and binding services for self-publishing authors.
FlexPress
W P Ward, COO, 4410 Spring Valley Road, Dallas TX 75244; 972-980-2631, x218; Fax: 972-980-8136. Email: sales@flexpress.com. A 13-year-old company doing strictly on-demand color or B&W printing with bindery at wholesale prices.
48-Hour Books
Printing System, 540 S Main Street #115, Akron OH 44311; 800-231-0521. Email: info@48hrbooks.com. They offer a nice cost calculator on their website and offer 2-day, 1-day, or same-day shipments. Cost varies by speed. Offers various sizes, B&W interiors or color, 4-color covers.
Global Book Printing
Brian Devany, 602 Dundalk Bay Cove, Pflugerville, TX 78660 Tel: 512-587-4101; e-mail: info@globalbookprinting.com. http://globalbookprinting.com
"High quality, low price book printing from top worldwide printers."
Graphic Image Group
751 Roosevelt Road, Building 7 #214, Glen Ellyn IL 60137; 630-790-6390; Fax: 630-790-2955. Email: rdouglas@giginc.com. Send for a free copy of their Survivors Guide to Document Publishing and Distribution.
GreatUnpublished
John Schwaner, Editor, 270 King Street, Charleston SC 29401; 843-579-0000. Email: editorsdesk@greatunpublished.com. This publisher formats books for both on-demand sales as well as ebooks. They are also a bookstore that fulfills orders online. In addition, they provide a community of independent reviewers to provide readers with an honest and focused opinion of the books for sale. They offer authors a 30% royalty for on-demand books and 70% for ebooks. Authors pay a $99 sign-up fee, which covers the formatting in both on-demand and ebook formats. During their first year, they produced 420 books. See BookSurge above. Check out their rating with the Better Business Bureau.
Green Button
Steve Talacka, President, 3162 State Route 118, Dallas PA 18612; 570-674-2975. Email: bobk@greenbuttoninc.com. Digital short-run book printing. Perfectbound and hardcover books from 24 to 900 pages.
Greyden Press
Columbus OH. Print-on-demand printer.
Hignell Printing Limited, Don Barnicki, 488 Burnell Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3G 2B4 Tel: (800) 304-5553; Fax: (204) 774-4053; e-mail: books@hignell.mb.ca. http://www.hignell.mb.ca
"Award winning, employee owned short-medium run book manufacturer. 90 years experience."
Hill Print Solutions
915 S. Peak Street, Dallas TX 75223; 214-826-0092. Email: mitchell@hillprintsolutions.com. Since 1925.
Houston Datum, 8885 Monroe, Houston TX 77061; 972-239-5464; Fax: 713-944-0915. Email: terryr@houstondatum.com (East Coast) or victorj@houstondatum.com (West Coast). Digital printing, black and white as well as color. Hardcovers, paperbacks, coil, saddlestitched. Also brochures, postcards, and brochures.
Imaging Hawaii Book Manufacturing
Terry Lau, 1108 Fort Street Mall, Suite 23, Honolulu, HI 96813 Tel: 808-384-6416; Fax: 808-732-6698; e-mail: sales@imaginghawaii.com. http://www.imaginghawaii.com
"Top quality hardcover book manufacturing at very competitive pricing!"
Impressions Unlimited
Mark Gion, 2300 Windsor Court, Addison IL 60101; 630-705-6464, ext.123; Fax: 630-705-1598. Email: mgion@impressionsunltd.com. On-demand printer. Imprint Books, 866-308-6235. On-demand book publishing, including color books and calendars.
Infinity Publishing
1094 New Dehaven Street #100, West Conshohocken PA 19428; 610-941-9999; 877-BUY-BOOK; Fax: 610-941-9959. Email: info@buybooksontheweb.com. They take orders at their web site for books within their system and then print, bind, and ship them within two days. Their publishing division, Infinity Publishing, helps people publish their books in on-demand format. Good company with customer-centric focus.
Inkwater Press
6750 SW Franklin Street #A, Portland OR 97223-2542; 503-968-6777; Fax: 503-968-6779. Email: info@inkwaterpress.com. Offers ebooks, full-color children's books, and print-on-demand books. Offers a range of packages with personalized attention. Their titles are available for sale worldwide. Authors retain all rights over their works.
InstaBook Corporation
Victor Celorio, President. Email: ibc@instabook-corporation.com.
The World's First Syste to Download, Print and Bind Book With a Simple Click of your Mouse!
Instantpublisher.com
Chris Bradley, P O Box 985, 410 Highway 72 W, Collierville TN 38027; 800-259-2592. They can print from 25 to 5,000 copies straight from your computer in less than seven days. They use digital print from short runs and offset printing for longer runs. They offer POD, book printing, subsidy publishing, self-publishing, etc.
iUniverse.com
2021 Pine Lake Road #100, Lincoln NE 68512; 877-288-4737. They have shifted their focus to author-driven publishing. Publishes 5,000 titles per year. Author services include custom cover design and copyediting. They offer nonexclusive contracts. Bought in September 2007 by the Author House parent company under the name of Author Solutions.
Just My Best
JMBPUB is an Ohio based publishing company (a small press). We cultivate a friendly downhome atmosphere with personal service and one-on-one interaction. We pride ourselves on our generous array of services including, proofreading, critiquing, editing, ghostwriting, typesetting, bookcover design, and professional consultations.We offer numerous publishing packages in various formats such as eBooks, hardback books and paperback books in an array of sizes.
KIMCO
Scott Laudenslager, 4120 Brighton Boulevard #A-21, Denver CO 80216; 303-295-1172; Fax: 303-295-2754. Email: jscottl@ix.netcom.com. Provides on-demand printing of books, manuals, and financial documents.
King Printing
Tom Campbell, Vice President, 181 Industrial Avenue, Lowell MA 01852; 978-458-2345; Fax: 978-458-3026. Email: tcampbell@kingprinting.com. King offers short run on-demand books from 1 to 25,000. Binding includes case binding, perfect, lay- flat perfect, wire O, saddle, and glue. Applications include galleys, custom courseware text books, high-tech manuals, journals. King is a certified minority-owned company. Credit cards accepted. AdiBooks.com is a resource site of theirs.
Kodak Gallery
(formerly Ofoto). Offers online photo processing and Legacy Photo Books starting at $69.99 each.
Lightning Press Printing Group
140 Furler Street, Totowa NJ 07512; 973-890-4422; Fax: 973-890-4414. Email: sales@lightning-press.com. Books on demand: paperbacks, hardcovers, reprints, and catalogs.
Lightning Source
Julia Houk, 1136 Heil Quaker Boulevard, La Vergne TN 37086; 615-213-5815; Fax: 615-213-4425. Email: inquiry@lightningsource.com. One of the main advantages of this system is its affiliation with Ingram Books, the major book wholesaler in the United States. All books on its system are automatically available to bookstores across the world. It uses the IBM InfoPrint 4100 and HP Indigo technology to print single copies or more of perfectbound or hardcover books. Currently offers 300,000 titles from over 3,000 publishers.
Lipstick Publishing
Marie Lewis Stevendon. Email: admin@lipstickpublishing.com. Print on demand company in the United Kingdom.
Literally Publishing
Andy Hey, The Covert, Main Street, Claydon, Oxfordshire OX17 1EU, United Kingdom; 44-1295-690969; Fax: 44-1295-690859. Email: enquiries@literallypublishing.com. A UK-based publisher of new and undiscovered authors in POD format.
Llumina Press
Deborah Greenspan; 954-726-0902; 866-229-9244. Email: deborah@llumina.com. “We help authors self-publish books in quantities of one to thousands through POD or offset. All Llumina books are edited (if necessary) and professionally designed. Cover art, distribution, marketing, as well as personal, caring service. Affordable, all-inclusive packages. Free evaluation of manuscripts.”
Lulu.com
Stephen Fraser, Marketing Director, 3131 RDU Center Drive #210, Morrisville NC 27560; 919-459-5858. Email: sfraser@lulu.com. Lulu.com offers free, on-demand publishing for books, ebooks, custom calendars, music, and images. Founded by open source entrepreneur Bob Young (founder of Red Hat), Lulu.com offers an open publishing platform that allows content creators to bring their content directly to consumers. With over 10,000 titles published in the last year, Lulu.com is one of the fastest growing on-demand companies in the U.S.
Masthof Press
Dan Mast, 219 Mill Road, Morgantown PA 19543; 610-286-0258. Email: dan@masthof.com. “We are a family owned and operated business located in Pennsylvania that offers high quality digital printing services at reasonable prices. We specialize in short runs of family genealogy books but also print a wide array of books, long and short runs. We can produce both paperback books and case-bound books. Aside from book printing we can also satisfy your color and monochrome printing needs.”
Medius Corporation
Tony Zaia, 1103 Montague Court, Milpitas CA 94035; 408-519-5000; Fax: 408-519-5001. Email: tony@mediuscorp.com. A commercial printer specializing in offset and digital printing of full-color books, technical manuals, corporate collateral, and product packaging. Binding includes wire-o, saddle-stitch, and perfect. Also CD duplication, kitting, storage, and fulfillment.
Metropolis Ink —Metropolis Ink is the creation of partners David Major and Kurt Florman. David works in Castlemaine, Australia (near Melbourne), and is an expert in publication preparation and production, and web site management. Kurt works in Yarnell, Arizona, USA (near Phoenix), and handles the editorial and contractual tasks.
Metropolis Ink is dedicated to serving our authors and customers with honesty and respect. We believe in forming a partnership with our authors, each utilizing the expertise of the others to create a complete package of writing, editing, publication, and sales.
Millennia Graphics
Randy Kuckuck, President, 1225 Aeroplaza Drive, Colorado Springs CO 80916; 719-638-0991, ext. 11; Fax: 719-638-0992. Email: rlkuckuck@milleniagraphics.com. Besides regular offset printing, this company does on-demand printing using Docutechs.
NetCity Press
Nicholas Thomas, General Manager, 3311 Addy Street, Washougal WA 98671; 360-835-1427; Fax: 360-335-9651.
Email:nick@netcitypress.com. This company assists self-publishers in testing their books via POD or ebooks.
NetPublications
William R. Grogg, President, 675 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie NY 12603; 845-463-1100; 800-724-1100; Fax: 845-463-0018. Email: wgrogg@netpub.net. Sales: Roger Hellman; email: rhellman@netpub.net. “We are an on-demand digital printing company who specializes in the short-run (1 to 2,000 copies) printing of books, tutorials, manuals, reports, and collateral print materials. We work with a great number of small to mid-sized publishing companies, corporate customers, associations, media companies, as well as university presses. We also do a significant amount of work for McGraw-Hill, Thompson Learning, Harcourt Brace, and iUniverse. Additionally, we print all of the training materials for Price Waterhouse Coopers and Colgate Palmolive.” Offset Paperback Manufacturers
P O Box N, 101 Memorial Highway, Dallas PA 18612; 570-675-5261; Fax: 570-674-9407. Nancy Lavan, Vice President, Commercial Services, 10 Passan Drive, Laflin PA 18702; 570-602-1316; Fax: 570-602-8813. Email: nancy.lavan@opm.com. A Bertelsmann company, this mass-market paperback printer also offers a Print-on-Demand system. They offer attractive pricing on quantities of 10 to 2,500 copies. It makes use of Xerox DocuTech 6180 Publishers. “We print short run (>20 copies) perfect bound paperback, saddle stitched, comb bound, and twin-wire bound books, black and white or 4 color, from supplied files or hard copy in 5 to 10 working days from approval of proof or receipt of clean files.” For price quotes, click here.
On Demand Machine Corporation
Harvey Ross, President, 787 Cross Creek Drive #A, St. Louis MO 63141; 314-878-3695; Fax: 314-878-6429. Email: information@bookmachine.com. Their BookBuilderOne bookmaking machine, starting at a price in the mid $60,000, can produce a trade paperback book in five minutes. These machines are designed to be used in bookstores to sell on-demand books.
On-Demand Technologies
Merna Tontat, 2220 Tomlynn Street, Richmond VA 23230; 804-359-4087; Fax: 804-359-4258. Email: mtontat@on-demandtech.com. They produce on-demand books in quantities from 50 to 2000 within one to three weeks. They offer a full range of binding options including hardcover. Also typesetting, page layout, and editing services.
On-DemandPress.com
Walter Fuller, President, 2971 Flowers Road S #100, Atlanta GA 30341; 770-451-4249; 888-408-5470. Email: fullerws@aol.com. A print-on-demand production house for publishers and authors. They offer online quote, order entry, production tracking, editing, and fulfillment capabilities. This site is a subsidiary of St. Barthelemy Press (770-451-1922; 800-451-1923), a book publisher specializing in on-demand and e-book production for authors.
Outskirts Press
10940 S Parker Road #515, Parker CO, 80134; 888-672-6657. Email: info@outskirtspress.com. Offers turn-key book publishing services to anyone looking for a quick and flexible way to publish and distribute their books. EDI distribution partnerships with the largest wholesalers and retailers in the world (like Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble). Set your own retail price, royalties, and trade discount and get published in about 12 weeks. Full-color and black/white publishing available.
P.O.D. Wholesale
610-520-2500. Email: info@podwholesale.com. Provides wholesale prices on print-on-demand and short runs.
Paraview Books
Claire Wyckoff, Publisher; Patrick Hughes, Editor-in-Chief. Besides publishing POD books for niche markets, they now also acquire books for the Paraview Pocket line published by Pocket Books.
Philadelphia Print and Color
Jeff Iegman, Philadelphia, PA; 215-563-2200; Fax: 215-563-3212. Email: info@philadelphiaprint.com.
Picaboo.com
Palo Alto CA. Offers book design software and prints POD books in very small quantities.
Pleasant Word
Athena Dean, Publisher, WinePress Publishing. Email: adean@winepresspub.com. This is the POD division of WinePress.
Portland Digital Printing
141 Preble Street, Portland ME 04101; 800-287-1452. Email: copyctr@verizon.net. Print-on-demand in b&w and color.
Prime Mover
John Woodruff. Email: johnw@primemover.net. A print-on-demand printer in Southern California. In business 15 years. Does 1.5 million books for the New Horizons Computer Learning Centers.
Profits Publishing
Marian Turgeon, 1525 Fleetwood Drive, Sarasota FL 34232; 941-371-3522; 877-280-2158; Fax: 941-371-7925. Email: marian@profitspublishing.com. “We specialize in putting YOUR books into your customers' hands...one at a time...on demand.
Publishers' Graphics
Kathleen Marada, 290 Gerzevske Lane, Carol Stream IL 60188; 630-221-1850; 888-404-3769; Fax: 630-221-1870. Email: sales@pubgraphics.com. Founded in 1996. Short-run black & white printing in quantities from 1 to 2,000. Casebound, perfectbound, or mechanical bindings. They also print digital color in-house.
Rapid POD Printing
Ken Whitman, President; 502-212-6258. Email: ken@rapidpod.com. They are a POD printer not a publisher. They offer 5 standard sizes and a 5-7 day turnaround on print-ready PDF files. Print high quality books, comics, and art prints in quantities from 1 to 1,000 in B&W and color.
Rapid Reproduction
Douglas P. Cioffi, 3 Church Street, Wilmington MA 01887; 978-657-6186; Fax: 978-988-7994. Email: rapid@raprepro.com. “We use a fleet of Docutechs as well as Canon color equipment for the covers and perfectbind in house.”
Rebirth BioScience
Dr. Josh Ken Davidberg, P O Box 94, Largo FL 33779. Email: curricula@rebirthtech.org. A self-publishing house for biotechnology and bioscience textbooks.
Renaissance Alliance Publishing/Baker & Taylor Publishes POD books. Also edits and publicizes them.
Replica Books, Marin Foster, Baker & Taylor, 1120 Route 22 East, Bridgewater NJ 08807; 908-541-7392; Fax: 908-541-7875. Email: Fosterm@btol.com. The on-demand printing arm of Baker & Taylor sells only to wholesalers, but booksellers can order through their favorite wholesaler or direct from Baker & Taylor. They work on an exclusive or non-exclusive basis.rosedog books
RoseDog Books
Melissa Rohm, Coordinator, 701 Smithfield Street, Pittsburgh PA 15222-3906; 866-380-0923; Fax: 412-338-0427. Email: rosedog@stargate.net. A full service print-on-demand publisher, from manuscript to print or digital format. Finished books are available online, via a toll-free number, or through retail bookstores. RoseDog is a subsidiary of Dorrance Publishing Company, a vanity press.
RPI Print
Ted Reischling President, 507 Westlake Avenue N, Seattle WA 98109; 206-371-0680. Email: ted@rpiprint.com. Produces digitally printed products from consumer-generated content, including one-off photo books, cards, calendars, and stationery products.
Shared Ink
Chris Hickman, Duvall WA. Hand-stitches hardcover books. Books of 20 pages start at $39.95. Offers software to help a consumer put the book together.
Sheridan Books
Mary Heim, Direct Sales Manager, 613 East Industrial Drive, Chelsea, MI 48118 Tel: 734-475-9145; Fax: 734-475-7337; e-mail: mheim@SheridanBooks.com. http://www.SheridanBooks.com
"Complete book manufacture. All types of binding. Electronic Prepress. Fulfillment services.
Shutterfly
Offers online photo processing and photo books POD.
Snapfish
Offers online photo processing and wirebound flipbook photo books starting at $4.99.
Star Print Brokers
Nancy Starkman, 6514 153rd Ave., SE, Bellevue, WA 98006 Tel: 425-603-1777; Fax: 425-603-0859; e-mail: n.star@starprintbrokers.com.
"Printing high-quality books in Asia for authors and publishers."
Starnet Media Group
Guide Service Press, Alex Blackwell & Jeff DiPaola, PO Box 138, 50 Commerce Dr., Allendale, NJ 07401 Tel: 800-242-7301; Fax: 201-760-2550; e-mail: ABlackwell@starnet-media.com. http://gsgs.com
"Short run book production - digital at traditional quality levels."
Studio 3
98 Main Street, Ellsworth ME 04605; 207-667-5351. Email: pod@studio3graphics.com. Print on demand publishing.
Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC
is a Christian based, family owned, main-line publishing organization with a mission to discover and market unknown authors.
Teachers Pay Teachers
Teachers and professors can sell their original content and curricular via this website, now owned by Scholastic.
360 Digital Books
8089 Stadium Drive #C, Kalamazoo MI 49009; 866-379-8767; Fax: 734-591-7899. Email: kwarner@360inc.com. Color and black & white in trim sizes from 4x6 to 8.5x11. Bindings: perfect, case, saddlestitch, and wire-o.
Town and Country Reprographics
Victor Stoykovich, 230 N Main Street, Concord NH 03301; 603-226-2828; Fax: 603-225-8437. Email: info@reprographic.com. Print books on demand, perfect or case bound. Also scans books to CD.
Trafford Publishing
888-232-4444. Email: sales@trafford.com. This on-demand publishing service pays publishers $142.50 for any author that signs with Trafford (publishers are encouraged to send Trafford's brochure with their rejection letters to authors submitting manuscripts).
Tri-State Litho
Frank Campagna, Vice President of Sales, 71 Tenbroeck Avenue, Kingston NY 12401; 845-331-7581; 800-836-7581; Fax: 845-331-1571. Email: graphics@tristatelitho.com. Their digital process assures proper paper grain direction in every book. Offers instant online pricing. Can do full-color books, in part or in whole.
UBuildaBook
Ann Levin, President, 5217 Verduga Way #F, Camarillo CA 93012; 805-383-7272; 866-909-3003. Email: ann@ubuildabook.com. Short runs from 2 to 1,000. Turnaround in 10 to 14 business days. Custom sizes available up to 11" x 11" with full-color cover.
ViaTech Publishing Solution
Bruce Weiser, 516 Fifth Avenue #907, New York NY 10036; 212-869-6364; Fax: 212-869-6392. ViaTech Publishing Solutions, the first worldwide on-demand publishing network designed from the ground up to address all publication costs from ordering and development through fulfillment and delivery.
Victoria Bookbinding Company
Shy Riyasat, 460 Tennyson Place #2, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; 250-383-6353. Email: shy@victoriabindery.com. Quality soft and hard covers at affordable prices. Provides all services available to publish your book.
Viovio
is the place where you can share your life and the wonderful journeys that color your living. We are an online community designed for photographers (professional and novice), travel enthusiasts, and those who want to combine the two. We provide you a place to upload photos, create travel blogs, create photo books, and exchange information about your favorite places and memorable adventures.
Virtual Bookworm Publishing
Bobby Bernshausen, P O Box 9949, College Station TX 77842; 877-376-4955. Email: bobby@virtualbookworm.com. A POD publishing firm that screens every manuscript received. They also offer a returns program, book layout and design services, marketing, and website creation/hosting. For their support center, go to http://www.virtualbookworm.com/supportcenter.html.
Wheatmark
610 East Delano Street #104, Tucson AZ 85705; 520-798-3321; 888-934-0888; Fax: 520-903-1135. Email: editor@bookpublisher.com. Wheatmark offers customized book design, editing, and publishing services for on-demand books. They offer regular discounts through Ingram to independent bookstores.
Whitehall Printing Company
Sandra Yeyati, 4244 Corporate Square, Naples, FL 34104-4753 Tel: 800-321-9290; Fax: 239-643-6439; e-mail: info@WhitehallPrinting.com.
"Paperback specialist--Quality book printing at low prices. "
Wingspan Press
David Collins. Email: editor@wingspanpress.com. They provide ISBNs with print-on-demand and short-run digital packages as well as a full suite of professional services for self-publishers.
Wordclay
Kevin Gray, Author Solutions; 317-246-9348. Email: kgray@wordclay.com. A free do-it-yourself online book publishing program for print-on-demand books. Their wizard formats your book for you from your manuscript and your book is ready to go in Word and PDF formats. Note: the wizard has one standard format which might not be right for every book. The format did not work well at all for the sample I uploaded, but they offer custom interior designs for $249.00 extra. They also provide standard book cover formats (about 20 choices). While the formatting is free and they will sell your book on their website, if you want bookstore distribution, you have to pay extra. Copyright registration also costs $99.00, but you can do that yourself for a lot less.
The Writer's Collective
Lisa Grant, Executive Director. Email: lgrant@writerscollective.org. Motto: An independent publisher for independent writers. A modest membership fee provides color covers, reduced POD or offset, free XML conversion, and discounted distributor rates. Writers keep 100% royalties on the sale of every book.
Xlibris
International Plaza II #340, Philadelphia PA 19113-1513; 610-915-5214; 888-7XLIBRIS; Fax: 610-915-0294. Email: info@xlibris.com. They take orders via their web site, but take from 3 to 5 weeks to print, bind, and ship the book. Random House bought a 49% stake in Xlibris in March 2000. They also offer e-book versions of books. Prices start as $299.
Xulon Press
Christian Self Publisher located in Longwood, FL with over 9,000 Christian titles. They provide free publishing consultations. Call toll-free 1-866-381-2665.
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