Books

Book Project Pricing

How much will it cost to self-publish your own book? It has never been cheaper! The marriage of digital photography with digital printing and short-run binding technologies is resulting in a revolution in the economics of book production, and particularly for image-rich book projects. Prior to 2001-2002, it simply wasn’t financially feasible to even consider producing a small print run of a coffee table quality photography book. Now it is, as you will quickly find in these pricing guidelines.

Design Services Prices
Book design services are billed at $75 per hour. We will estimate the cost of design services at the time we quote your job. If extenuating circumstances or change of project scope require a re-quote, we reserve the right to do so, but will notify you in writing, if the price changes by more than 10%.

Book Production Prices
Many design and production variables influence the cost of printing and binding your book. You'll find a summary in our Sample Book Pricing document. While these are accurate guidelines, we will provide you a final written quote that takes into account the specifics of your custom requirements.

Sample Book Pricing

Binding set-up
Most books require some degree of time to calculate the cut sizes for the various components of the binding, such as book board, end sheets, and covering materials. We allow for a nominal amount of binding set-up in our base prices. (If your job is more complicated than “nominal”, we will include an additional charge for this process in our quote to you.)