Frequently Asked Questions

No, as an internet based business we can take your emails from anywhere in the world. It is mainly through emails that we manage the series of steps needed to publish a paperback book or an eBook. Whether you're in London, New York, Tokyo or Timbuktu is irrelevant: once we hand-over to you at the end of our assignment, you have full control of your book wherever you are.

Professional editing of your text, publishing & designing services. We design your printed book interior & your printed book cover. We design your eBook & your eBook marketing image. We take your advice and suggestions. Printed books and eBooks are given an ISBN. We provide authors with a book ordering service from their own FREE web storefront: you can order single copies or as many as you wish at print cost plus P&P NOT the cover price.

Don't send a payment just yet - we discourage any payments from authors until they fully understand the services which we are supplying. To get that understanding, just send us your email address and any other questions you might have via our website - click on the contact link at the top of all our website pages. This means, once we have your email address, that we can send you various documents explaining all our services in more detail. As well as contacting us you can also study our publishing guides shown at the bottom of our web pages - just send us your email address and we'll email the documents right back to you.

For international transactions we accept PayPal payments using a link which we will email to you or you can send us a Cheque drawn on a British bank or a Postal Order or by a direct payment into our bank account from another U.K. bank.

As the author, you can order as many copies of your book as you wish using your web storefront at cost price and sell them for a price which you set yourself. Through the ISBN, your book will also be sold through online and high street booksellers: through these sales channels the difference between the selling price and cost price must be shared between the author (as royalties), the Print On Demand (POD) service and the bookseller. Notice that, for books ordered at cost price by the author, there are no royalties to be paid for these orders.

Yes, once you've made your final payment you can make requests for books at any time you want using your web storefront, all it will cost you is the price per copy plus the post and packaging charge.

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That's up to you and how deep your purse is and your judgement on how many copies you believe you can sell. I would think in terms of a maximum in the twenties or thirties to begin with. Remember that you can always make a new order once you've sold an earlier order.

There is a minimum charge of £35 to bring out an updated version of your book.

No - the language of communication with our authors is in English. Note that we only publish books in the English Language.

You do, a writer would be foolish to transfer the copyright on their writings to anyone and we have no interest in owning copyright.

No. The legal basis of our agreement (between the author and Rossendale Books) rests upon our Terms and Conditions which can be downloaded on this link. We regularly receive emails from authors who have a contractual basis with a publisher which binds the author to that publisher unless they pay an exorbitant release fee. Just recently, we received an email to that effect where the author would have to pay a release fee of 750 Euros - which is around £700.00 or $820.00!!! If you publish through Rossendale Books there are no hidden charges or release fees or exclusive agreements. WE DON'T TIE YOU DOWN LEGALLY and WE DON'T TAKE A PENNY from your sales or royalties.

As an independent self publishing company we have the time to treat our authors as someone special. We will go that extra mile to make sure you're provided with friendly and helpful advice at all stages of the publishing process.

For our eBook and Paperback publishing services (including ISBNs, cover, marketing image and storefront) the total cost would be £200.00.

No, the first payment is set at 50% with the remaining 50% balance being payable once the book is published. This means two payments of £100.00

For paperback book sales your storefront will receive the payments from your storefront provider. This applies to books sold directly off your storefront to customers ordering from anywhere in the world and also to books sold from the Amazon website or other online booksellers. Similarly for eBook sales, any sales direct from your storefront or sales on Amazon, Apple, Barnes and Noble or any other online site will be paid to your storefont. Notice that for both eBook sales and printed book sales, Rossendale Books does not receive a penny: our business is in providing self publishing services and not in 'creaming-off' from our author's payments.

For sales off your storefront, or sales of your work through other online resellers such as Amazon, you can choose to have the payments made directly to your PayPal account (from which they can be transferred to your bank account) or you can choose to be paid by cheque.

Unlike the big mainstream publishers, which only pay their authors yearly, self publishing companies pay their authors at more frequent intervals, often every three months.

For paperback book sales your storefront will receive the payments from your storefront provider. This applies to books sold directly off your storefront to customers ordering from anywhere in the world and also to books sold from the Amazon website or other online booksellers. Similarly for eBook sales, any sales direct from your storefront or sales on Amazon, Apple, Barnes and Noble or any other online site will be paid to your storefont. Notice that for both eBook sales and printed book sales, Rossendale Books does not receive a penny: our business is in providing self publishing services and not in 'creaming-off' from our author's payments.

Yes, we do. We provide a marketing guide on request and on publication day we email you with this comprehensive marketing guide dealing with many of the approaches which authors can take to market their book. Authors have found this to be a useful marketing tool and source of ideas

For sales off your storefront, or sales of your work through other online resellers such as Amazon, you can choose to have the payments made directly to your PayPal account (from which they can be transferred to your bank account) or you can choose to be paid by cheque.

Unlike the big mainstream publishers, which only pay their authors yearly, self publishing companies pay their authors at more frequent intervals, often every three months.