Book Guild Publishing: A Longstanding London Company
Founded in 1982, Book Guild Publishing Companies of London now offers a mix of quality books: short stories and novels, to captivate both children and adults; vivid biographies and memoirs that give insight to remarkable lives – both past and present and current affairs books on timely subjects we can all learn from and about.
Book Guild Publishing Company publishes nearly one hundred books per year, from both established and new authors on a wide range of subjects.
Being in the publishing business for over 25 years, Book Guild Publishing Companies are experts in the field of editorial, production, promotion and distribution and offer their authors a high level of creative control and involvement. The book Guild Publishing a proven track record of an experienced publicity and marketing departments, each having well established contacts in the publishing community. As well as obtaining press on radio and TV coverage.
Their catalogue contains a diverse list of books such as academic, autobiographies, biographies, children’s fiction, cookery/food, fiction, history, heritage/local interests, human interests and naval and military. And one place they show off their catalogue every year is the London Book Fair. This is the premiere book event of the year in London and the Book Guild Publishing Company is represented every year. The Book Guild Publishing Company offers a variety of publishing options to choose from: traditional publishing, joint venture publishing – this is where the author contributes to the cost of publishing his or her book, product only publishing, and sponsored books for companies and charities. The traditional publishing is just that, your basic book publishing, whether it is hardcover or paperback. You hand over your manuscript and allow the Book Guild Publishing Company to do the rest. They even handle the royalties for you. This is your basic publishing contract or conventional publishing. Joint venture publishing is a full publishing package which gives the author a high level of involvement and creative control. This package contains editorial, production, jacket design, publicity and marketing sales forces, distribution, accounting, representation at the London Book Fair, which happens once a year and is the major book event of the London Book scene, and inclusion in their catalogue and website as well as Amazon.co.uk. All of this with you in mind, with your help because you have creative control and are involved at every step of the process. The product only publishing includes full editorial, production and design of your book to provide you with finished copies for your own distribution and personal use. Meaning they will help you with everything for your book, from the beginning, but stop short at distribution. You have to find a way to distribute it yourself. This works well for people outside of London. Company-backed books according to your needs are what the sponsored books for companies and charities are providing all about. The company or charity will pay the bill for publishing and distribution. The Book Guild Publishing Company is the first to introduce a “middle ground between self publishing and mainstream.”
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