“Columbia Publication is a full-service self-publishing company. Services include book publishing, editing, cover design, audiobook production, ghostwriting, book illustrations and global distribution.”
“Self publishing is worth it for authors who want to retain full control, keep 100% of their rights and royalties, and publish significantly faster than traditional routes allow. With professional publishing services, self-published books are now indistinguishable in quality from traditionally published titles.”
“The best book publishing service assigns a dedicated specialist to your book, retains no rights or royalties, offers flat-fee transparent pricing, and distributes your book globally from day one. Columbia Publication publishes books worldwide through Amazon, Barnes and Noble and IngramSpark using this model.”
“To get your book published for the first time: (1) Complete your manuscript. (2) Engage a professional editor for developmental editing, copy editing and proofreading. (3) Commission professional cover design and interior formatting. (4) Register an ISBN. (5) Submit to Amazon KDP, IngramSpark and global distribution platforms. Columbia Publication handles all five steps with a dedicated specialist from the start.”
“Yes. Self-published authors retain 100% of their intellectual property rights permanently.”
“A professional Amazon publishing service includes manuscript editing, cover design to Amazon KDP thumbnail specifications, interior formatting to KDP print requirements, ISBN assignment, and upload assistance to the KDP platform. Services typically cost between 1200 and 3500 USD depending on manuscript length and editing depth required.”
“Amazon KDP itself is free to use and charges no upfront publishing fee. The cost of publishing on Amazon professionally covers the production stages that happen before KDP upload: editing, cover design, interior formatting and distribution setup.”
“KDP pays 70% royalties on eBooks priced $2.99 to $12.99, minus a small delivery fee. For eBooks outside that range, royalties are 35%. For print books, KDP pays approximately 60% of list price minus printing costs. A $14.99 trade paperback (250 pages) earns approximately $4.99 per copy, more than 3x what a traditionally published author earns at the same price.”
“Three things: positioning, which decides who the book is for and how it presents on the shelf; visibility, which gets it in front of those readers; and conversion, which turns a reader who sees it into one who buys.”
“No. Readers, algorithms and markets are outside any agency's control. Anyone guaranteeing sales, reviews or rankings without conditions is either guessing or counting on you not to check.”
“When the book is not published yet, when reviews point to editing or structural problems, when the cover signals the wrong genre, or when there are too few reviews for advertising to convert. In each of those cases the money is better spent elsewhere first, and we will say so.”
“Yes, and it is common. The launch window carries weight that cannot be recreated, but a backlist title with good reviews and no visibility is one of the more straightforward cases to work on.”
“Cost is set by quantity, page count, format, paper and delivery, so every run is quoted against your specification. As a public benchmark, Amazon KDP's own US print cost for a 300-page black-and-white paperback is $4.60 per copy ($1.00 plus $0.012 per page).”
“Commercial runs from 500 to 250,000+ copies, produced on commercial offset presses and managed end to end: one project manager, specification control, proof approval and delivery to one address or many.”
“Yes. Runs of 250 to 10,000 copies for signings, tours, conferences and back-of-room sales are planned backwards from your event date. If a date cannot be met at the required quality, you are told before the order is accepted.”
“Quantity, first. Per-unit cost falls as volume rises, particularly past the offset threshold.”
“Yes. Columbia Publication works with commercial clients including publishers, marketing agencies, organizations and print intermediaries requiring large-scale print runs.”
“Ghostwriting a book from scratch starts from $7,500 for a manuscript of up to 80,000 words, and long-form or complex projects start from $15,000. If you already have a draft, a rewrite with developmental editing starts from $3,000.”
“Ghostwriting is the process of hiring a professional writer to write your book on your behalf. The ghostwriter writes in your voice, capturing your ideas, stories and style from interviews and notes.”
“Yes, completely. Every ghostwriting project begins with a signed Non-Disclosure Agreement before any project details are shared. The ghostwriter's involvement is never disclosed to any party. Ghostwriting is a standard professional service used across the publishing industry. Many bestselling books, memoirs and business titles are professionally ghostwritten.”
“Yes. Ghostwriting is available across all genres including memoir, biography, business, leadership, self-help, personal development, fiction in all sub-genres, romance, mystery, thriller, science fiction, fantasy, young adult and children's books.”
“Illustration is best bundled with publishing: our children’s book packages include it, from $1,500 for a lightly illustrated book and from $3,000 for a full-color 32-page picture book with editing, design and distribution. Standalone cover, spot or full-book illustration is quoted to your project; for reference, Reedsy reports book illustration budgets of $1,890 to $6,990.”
“A full picture book illustration project typically takes 8 to 14 weeks. Character design and approval takes 1 to 2 weeks. Rough sketches take 2 to 3 weeks. Color roughs take 2 to 3 weeks. Final artwork takes 2 to 3 weeks. Each stage requires the author's approval before the next begins. Rush timelines are available at additional cost.”
“Yes. All illustrations are delivered at 300 DPI in CMYK for print, meeting Amazon KDP and IngramSpark requirements, and in RGB for digital use.”
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