Open Books Press publishes quality trade paperbacks and eBooks worldwide, including adult nonfiction and fiction for all ages.

Open Books Press is a traditional-hybrid imprintâ€”no author fees, but no royalty advance. We welcome hearing from you at any point in your writing and publishing process. When you're ready to publish, we'll need your finished (final-edit) manuscript and marketing platform.

Most of our agreements include trade paperback and eBooks, but we try to be as flexible as possible. Our royalty percentages range from 30â€“50% of our net proceeds (wholesale price minus book printing for POD, or the amount we receive from the sale minus any direct expenses), with the higher percentages as certain sales volumes are reached or for self-published work (see Pen & Publish for publishing services).

We want to give authors every chance to prove their ability to reach their audience. We are incorporating crowdfunding (Pubslush.com) and/or advance orders into our process to help un- or little-known authors with advance promotion. This provides flexibility to publish more authors with quality work we want to invest in. We will allow authors the option to crowdfund direct or use our Pubslush account.

Open Book Press is an imprint of Pen & Publish Inc. founded in 2005 to serve schools and nonprofits. Our book-publishing mission is to serve each individual or organization by offering them a choice of services to fit their objectives. Each project and person is unique and deserves to be treated fairly and communicated with honestly, even if it means sending them elsewhere for services. While we strive to be efficient, we will never adopt a factory model to crank out books in mass. We will not hide costs and information, or violate our ethics.

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