Options to enhance your book

Hardback binding

On-demand hardback formatting is now an upgrade option for your book. For an additional fee, your trade paperback can be produced as a library-quality hardcover for a truly professional look. You may choose to release the hardcover first, and then launch the paperback later to carry out the same publicity and distribution process used by traditional publishers.

Many readers, book collectors and libraries prefer hardcover books, so offering hardbacks in addition to a paperback version of your book could increase your sales potential.

Choose from the following hardcover styles:

Hardback binding is available for manuscript or print-ready PDF submissions.

Full-color printing

Our full-color printing option is ideally suited for children’s or artist’s books, cookbooks, portfolios or photography books—any type of book that lends itself to a large format and glorious full color.

Submitting a color manuscript for publication is just as easy as submitting a manuscript for a black and white paperback—you’ll just need to collect and prepare your image files. See our Author Guide for the requirements for graphics files.

Custom editing

Get the assistance of an experienced professional editor — before your manuscript is submitted for publishing — to help you make your writing polished and professional. We’ll do a thorough proofreading and copy-editing, checking spelling, punctuation, grammar and usage. We’ll also evaluate structure and flow, and make suggestions for rewriting, tightening or expanding passages, even adding or deleting sections to strengthen the impact of your work. You’re still in control — you decide which changes you want to accept.

Author’s website

Promote your book with your own website. We’ll register a domain name for you, using either your author name or your book’s title (or any other name you prefer), and provide two years of web hosting through our partnership with Draknet Web Hosting. Your website will be up to five pages, designed to match your book. Pages include a home page with promotional copy, a book excerpt, an author bio, and a “store” page linking directly to your book’s page on BookSurge. We’ll enroll your site in BookSurge’s affiliate program so that all sales that originate from your site’s direct links will earn an additional 10 percent royalty. Your site comes with email address, webmail access, and many more features.