Our Publishing-Platform “publish-Books”

Comprehensive Business Solution for Self-publishing Service Providers

The self publishing market is the fastest growing segment in the book industry. Unfortunately, becoming a service provider to authors normally requires huge investments and a lot of time. But times are changing and that’s coming to an end, thanks to “publish-Books” by tredition. This “white-label” solution gets self-publishing websites up and running within just a few days.

With our white-label publishing solution, you can start your own self publishing business immediately.

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What is publish-Books?

publish-Books is the comprehensive white-label solution to run a self-publishing platform. publish-Books is web technology for the author’s independent publication of books as well as production and distribution services from one source. With publish-Books, our customers can implement an individual self-publishing offer with their own brand, their own prices and royalty conditions. tredition, as the service provider does not appear anywhere in the value chain of publishing, production, distribution and payment but will handle all tasks for the self-publishing platform.

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Easy integration of the publish-Books app

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Paperback, Hardcover and eBook with one click

Authors can publish all three book types in a single publication process.
Book covers and interiors do not need to be uploaded for each book type.

Create cover templates with your coporate design

Easy creation of cover templates for authors to use.
Corporate designs can be set very hard or leave all freedom to the author to change and adapt.

Detailed online royalty account

Receive detailed sales information on all books published through your system.
Royalties to you and your authors are paid out every month.

Intuitive cover designer for authors

WYSIWYG cover designer with comfortable drag&drop fuctionality.
Uploading of images, changing fonts and sizes, adapating colors of layers and sections and much more.

Epub-to-print – like never before

You (or tredition) provide the templates for the interior of the book.Authors upload their epub.
publish-Books automatically converts it into a print book interior with perfect typesetting - with your coporate design.

Royalty calculator reflecting your offer to authors

Your royalty schemes are embedded in publish-Books.
You can set the schemes individually according to your business model.

Individual webdesign and layout

Change the look and feel of publish-Books to your needs.
Any button, any font, any color can be easily changed.

Important features and benefits

Your own brand – with or without your own ISBN

Establish your own brand. All books will be available at stores under your brand or imprint name.
You decide as to whether or not you wish to use your own ISBNs or provided by tredition

Long-term or project related

No long contract duration or long notice periods. publish-Books can be used for a long term self-publishing offer or be project related, e.g. for literature competitions.

High flexibility

publish-Books can be individually suited for any self-publishing model. Almost every detail can be specified.
You can use your own content management system and integrate publish-Books as a plugin or use it as a stand-alone website.

Template designer for cover

With the integrated cover template designer you can offer your authors the use of individual cover designs and comfortable customizations online.
You determine to what extent authors can customize your cover designs, in order to ensure compliance with a corporate design, where applicable.
Provide your own individual designs or take advantage of our professional cover designs

Individual price and royalty system

You can implement your own individual business model. You determine the amount of royalties per book sold for both you and the author.
Should you wish, you may charge a publication fee or determine a minimum purchase
Combine the publication of paperback, hardcover and eBook as one package or as individual services
Offer your own services for the publication such as e.g. promotion of the books

Three books in one step

In only few steps, the author can publish his book as paperback, hardcover and eBook – all in one publishing step
The intuitive process ensures immediate success

World-wide distribution

All output formats (paperback, hardcover and eBook) are available world-wide
tredition works together with both leading book dealers and wholesalers all over the world. All printed books are printed locally, e.g. North America, therefore books are delivered to each book store within 24 hours.

Level of authors support can be chosen freely

You decide if you would like tredition to administer author’s support or provide this yourself. This includes answering author’s emails, phone calls and letters, etc.
Experienced support team for authors

Professional print & eBook production

Printed editions are available in store after only three days. eBooks are produced in four different formats and usually take up to a week, due to the production process.
Printed editions are exclusively produced at leading print companies such Imgram’s Lightningsource.
eBooks are produced in the common formats (epub, mobi) ensuring comprehensive quality control.

Book review before publication

Our professional tredition team thoroughly reviews layout, structure, orthography, print and image quality as well as the content of each submitted book based on pre-stipulated quality criteria.
tredition provides individual proposals for improvement should quality flaws be identified, so the work can swiftly be corrected by the author.

Automated typesetting and print PDF

Integrated online converter which helps to easily create the appropriate interior book format.
Upload the book interior as a word document (.doc or .docx) or ePUB-file.
Creation of printable PDF via publish-Books

More about the automated typesetting

Daily turnover overview and royalty accounts

Authors and publishing clients are given access to a sales and distribution account which is updated on a daily basis. This way their (self-) marketing can be evaluated instantly.
tredition administers royalty settlements to the authors. Royalties are paid monthly with a detailed royalty statement as soon as the commission exceeds USD 25 (in the US) or GBP 25 (in UK)..

Visually Customizable Interface

publish-Books can be adapted to your own corporate design or web presentation. Not only can all colors, font types, buttons etc. be changed as well as the entire layout.
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Easy integration into your website

publish-Books has been designed for easy integration to your website
Numerous possibilities including iframe and popup are available. The process is completed by one click and knowledge of programming is not required.
There is a plugin available when using WordPress as content-management.
The system can also be operated alone without your own website.

Comprehensive tools for analysis

Link to your own Google Analytics/Adwords-Account
Numerous statistics
Easy analysis and Excel-downloads

Own bookshop

Processing of all transactions and orders
Higher margin as no retailers are involved
Customizable shop homepage
Integrated payment methods (Credit card, PayPal, direct debit)

Metadata-management for high visibility

Comprehensive metadata-management
Additional information going beyond ONIX-standard
Processing typical information requirements for book sellers

Continuous development

Since 2008 continuous further development
Regular updating with comprehensive extensions
Constant adjustment to market condition
Current version at all times

Professional support

Technical support via e-mail or telephone
State-of-the-art server structures for optimized response
Extensive support during all phases (installation and operating)

Systems for USA/Canada, UK and Euro-area

Available in several languages (growing)
Considering regional differences (cm/inch, gram/ounce)
Settlement/Account in US-Dollar, GBP and Euro (growing)
Regional online-payment systems
Regional hosting for an extremely fast response time

Marketing content from authors

Authors can upload marketing measures themselves
Reading, trailer, news
Valuable SEO-content
Attractive author’s homepage

Web services for importing your own CMS

All contents can be imported to your own CMS
Flexible web service
Support of your own domain with content

Please contact us for an individual offer