Book Binding

There Are Book Binding Services To Make Your Book A Reality

Not everyone is writing a book to be a national best seller. Many of us are writing the kind of book that has a very limited market, like our families or members of an organization. We only want 20 or 50 or 200 copies. No major publisher is going to do that for us. there are companies that offer book binding services for small quantities of volumes. Use the the publishing programs available for any computer and get your manuscript ready to bind. Then send it to book binding services. You can even have your book bound in leather.

After you spend years getting together your families history to pass down to your children and other family members, you want to do it right. No punched holes and three ring binders for you, or at least we hope not. Maybe you are a great cook who likes to invent your own recipes. Now is the time to put them all together in a great cook book for your daughters and friends. Your organization might have a great history to tell and also need a fund raiser what better project than to write the history in a book with photos and drawings and have it bound to be sold for the fund raiser. All you need are a few members with writing and editing skills and a good computer publishing program.

Most book binding services have both hard and soft cover binding available to meet different needs and budgets. Single copies are more expensive to have bound than multiples. The more copies you want bound, the less each copy will be. Single copies go for around $12.00 soft cover and $18.00 hard copy, but when you want 51 to 100 copies each book is $4.00 to $7.00. you need to figure out how many copies you will need and call or go on line for a quote from the book binding services you are considering

You will want to try for a standard size of 8 1/2 inches by 11 inches to make home publishing easier and binding less expensive. You can get custom size book binding at higher prices. Most book binding services will give you a set of book binding preparation guidelines to follow. When you are ready to order your books, you go to their web site and select your cover, quantity,  and title imprint. They will send you an order confirmation e-mail to check out and a shipment instruction notice. Then you pack up and ship your manuscripts per instructions and wait for the finished books to come back in about three weeks.