Prices and Royalties

When you publish your book with Spire Publishing you don't have to worry about expensive print runs or the cost of warehousing books. All of our books are printed on demand. Books are printed only after both the order and the payment have been received, it is the purchaser who pays for the printing, not the author.

The Author's Price is how much it costs to print a single copy of your book. Authors can buy copies of their book at this price at any time.

Author's Price - softcover books:

No. of pages	UK price	CDN/US price
Under 200	£4.39	$7.49
200-300	£5.39	$9.29
300-400	£6.39	$11.29
400-500	£7.39	$13.29
500-600	£8.39	$15.29

Author's Price - hardcover books:

No. of pages	UK price	CDN/US price
Under 200	£8.70	$17.55
200-300	£9.70	$18.55
300-400	£10.70	$19.55
400-500	£11.70	$21.55

Author's Price - colour books:

No. of pages	UK price	CDN/US price
17-47	£4.95	$8.90
48-99	£6.95	$10.90
100-149	£9.95	$15.90
150-199	£12.95	$19.90

Bulk discounts - softcover books:

	Over 100 books	Over 250 books	Over 500 books
Under 200 pages	£4.00 $7.75	£3.75 $7.00	£3.45 $6.25
Under 300 pages	£5.00 $9.75	£4.75 $9.00	£4.45 $8.25
Under 400 pages	£6.00 $11.75	£5.75 $11.00	£5.45 10.25

Bulk discounts for hardcover and colour books are negotiated individually.

Getting paid. The important part

This is how we calculate royalties:

If you are buying books from us to sell yourself, for example from your own website or at a conference, then you get to keep all of the profit.

When you are selling through the book trade, from the net sale amount (this is the retail price less the 30% trade discount) we deduct the Author's Price (this is what it costs for your book to be printed) to arrive at the gross margin - and this is the amount of profit that you receive.

For example:

Retail price £9.99 deduct trade discount of 30% (£3.00) = wholesale price of £6.99. With an author price of £4.49 (200 page count or less) this will leave you with a profit, per book sold via the book trade, of £2.50

As we are printing books to order for each sale made, the author doesn't have to pay for book manufacturing after investing in the initial publishing package. Because traditional publishers allow booksellers to return unsold copies, they tend to pay royalties less frequently and for a period that ended between three to six months before the date that payments are made.

Sales and royalty statements are issued twice a year in January and July and include all royalties accrued during that period. All figures are compiled electronically from book trade sales (on-line and wholesale). Any payment due is paid shortly thereafter. Please note royalties payments are made upon amounts reaching £50.00 or more.

We prefer to use the paypal service to pay our authors. If you do not wish to use paypal we can pay you by cheque (Cdn dollars) or electronic bank transfer (fee will apply).