Services for perfect books
Increase your book success through higher quality. With our "Professional Services" your book gets a professional kick!
The highlight: The cover and text designs are provided in our tools. If something changes in your book, our tools change the designs automatically. So you stay flexible for the future.
Cover design
That way, the eye stays glued to your cover:
The cover is the first impression people get of your book. This brief moment is one of the deciding factors in your book's success. With an individual cover design, you stand out from the crowd. Our design professionals will create one or more cover designs for you in the tredition Cover Designer.
Only here You can still customize the design yourself without any previous graphic knowledge and test other variants. This way you stay flexible.
Only here You get the cover design for all book types: softcover, hardcover, large print and e-book.
Only here You can adjust the features such as the paper type or the binding type later without having to revise the cover design.
Only here Save the design as your own template and use it for future publications. This way you can build your own book kingdom design and create a 'brand'!
| Cover design with tredition template | Layout in Cover Designer | 299,00 € |
You choose a cover design from dozens of templates. The exclusive premium cover templates from tredition are all designed by multiple award-winning book designers. Then we start our work:
- Customize your chosen premium template for your book and genre
- If you want: Integration of your images on front and back
- Integration of individual texts such as blurb, author portrait, press reviews, etc.
- Creation of all elements of the design
- Barcode placement and integration (for print book type)
| Cover design completely customized   | Layout in Cover Designer | from €399.00* |
If you want your book cover to be completely individual and exclusive, this is your thing! We start on a blank sheet and develop your design based on your ideas. That makes it special:
- All services of "Cover designs with a tredition template" and additionally:
- Implementation of the mood of your book in the cover design
- Individual conception of all elements: fonts, style elements, decorative elements
- Editing graphic elements
One design (399,00 Euro)
You will receive a draft for your cover design.
Two variants (599,00 Euro)
You will receive a draft and another variant for your cover design.
Three variants (749,00 Euro)
You will receive a draft and two other variants and then have three cover designs to choose from and use.
| Image research for a cover image | Search and optimization | 149,00 € per picture |
If you do not have your own graphic or photo for your cover, we will be happy to select something suitable for you according to your wishes (briefing):
- You will receive three images as a suggestion from image databases such as shutterstock
- You decide which one you want to use
- We acquire the appropriate image license for you so that it may be used for your e-book and printed book
*depending on the number of variants you order
Text check
Get the most out of your text: Our editors work through your text with an external and objective eye, improve errors and make stylistic suggestions for improvement. For a professional book publication and your book success, this is a must-have!
| Proofreading | Find the last small errors | 0,02 € per word |
Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees. You can read through your book carefully several times. Nevertheless, it is almost impossible to avoid spelling mistakes. Unfortunately, readers usually notice them quickly and criticize them accordingly. Our proofreading service helps with checking and correction of
- Spelling
- Grammar
- Punctuation
| Editing | Wordily improve the style | 0,04 € per word |
It took you a long time to write your book. You planned the plot precisely and formed the characters. It can happen that illogical descriptions or chronologically staggered details lead the reader astray, because the reader gets to know a main character only gradually. However, you have the entire character in mind.
With specialist, non-fiction and guidebooks, you are the expert on your subject. An editing professional helps you to convey your expertise to your readers in the best possible way.
You will receive these services in the proofreading department:
- everything from proofreading and in addition:
- Generally understandable expression
- content readability and good reading flow
- simple presentation of complicated facts/action instructions
- Errors or discrepancies
- appropriate sentence structure
- incorrect word reference
- correct use of tenses
- frequent repetition of words
- unnecessary filler words
- optimal wording
- Spelling, grammar and punctuation
- Logic
- uniform writing style
Text design
Professional design for your text:
For the text design, i.e. the professional typesetting of your text, we do not have our own freelancers at tredition, but if you are interested, we will be happy to put you in touch with designers who provide this service. We have been working with some of these service providers for years and can recommend them to you with a clear conscience.
If you would like to get in touch, please feel free to contact us. We will then make the contact for you.
The minimum order value for the services is € 149.00
The procedure
Select service project
How would you like to improve your book? Select the appropriate services.
Fill briefing
The better you describe what you want, the better the results of our freelancers will match your ideas.
tredition mediates
We get started! Based on your briefing, we look for the right service provider(s) for your service project.
Freelancer gets going
Wanted - found! Then we get started! As soon as you have paid the invoice, the service provider(s) will start working on your project.
Completion in the project editor
We make the result available to you in our tools. With it you can independently make final changes. Your design will be updated automatically!
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