Services

Book Cover Design

Professionally designed book covers are crucial to publishing a successful book. Contrary to the old adage, people do judge a book by it's their cover.

BookServ has extensive experience creating book cover designs for both self-published books as well as for large publishing houses. Providing unlimited concepts and revisions, custom illustration, image compositing in addition to free ISBN barcode creation as well as full print setup of your finished book cover files to the exact specifications required by your self-publishing company.

If you are are in the market for a cover design for your new book, trust BookServ to go above and beyond for you and create a book cover that will stand out in a crowded market.

Below is a listing of some of the services you can receive with our Book Cover design packages:

• Phone and email consultations with designer
• Unlimited original custom cover concepts
• Unlimited studio quality photography from our extensive image collections
• Custom illustration services (up to 2 hours)
• Image Compositing & Photoshop work
• Insert author photo supplied by author as digital file or scan photo original
• Unlimited Revisions as needed
• Final print-ready files setup for print for the self-publishing website of your choice

Additional Services available:

• Existing design alterations (if BookServ did not provide the original design)- $50/hr
• Existing design alterations (if BookServ did provide the original design)- $25/hr
• Photo scanning - $5 each
• Print-Ready files delivered on CD- $35

Book Page Layout Design

Readability and proper formatting is crucial to a successful book. BookServ will provide the perfect formatting and setup of your book contents. From image placement and image cleanup to text and paragraph formatting as well as detailed layout design techniques, BookServ can provide you with page layout services that will stand well above and beyond the average self-published book and give your readers a sense of quality and professionalism from your book while enjoying the fruits of your hard labor.

Don't shortchange your hard work and publish your book with a substandard layout. Choose BookServ for professional page layout and formatting services.

Below is a listing of some of the services can receive with our page layout packages:

• Phone or email consultation with Graphic Designer to establish book layout expectations and desires
• Creation of title page
• Creation of copyright page
• Creation of table of contents
• Layout of up to 280 pages of text with headings and page numbering created from your MS Word, TXT, InDesign, Powerpoint or QuarkXPress document
• Up to 40 photos
• Up to 10 call-outs or boxed sections
• Up to 20 tables
• Up to 20 bullet lists
• Up to 20 additional photos, call-outs or bullet lists
• Unlimited PDF proofs until design is perfect
• Unlimited revisions until finished files are submitted to printer
• Final PDF proof for approval prior to sending file to printer
• Final files setup to exact specifications and format of your desired self-publishing website
• Completed files delivered via digital download

Additional services are available at an additional fee. These services are listed below:

• Additional pages above 280 - $50 per 64 pages
• Photo scanning - $5 each
• Additional Tables - $5/ea
• Custom charts – Quoted separately based on $50/hour
• Call-outs or boxed sections - $2/ea
• Bullet lists - $2/ea
• Multi-level heads - $50
• Photoshop editing (image silhouetting, combining or altering images and image cleanup) - $50/hour
• Index - $75
• Print-Ready files delivered on CD- $35

Book Design Formatting

Even if you have already created your own book artwork, most times, your artwork will not be accepted by your self-publishing website. It could be as simple as file format requirements or as complicated as requiring bleeds, trim areas and advanced pagination. BookServ is experienced in dealing with the requirements of all self-publishing websites and can help you to get your design files setup and ready to be accepted by the stringent standards of any self-publishing website today.

A Listing of just some of the self-publishing websites we can help you format your book for:

• CreateSpace
• LightningSource
• Lulu
• BookSurge
• OutskirtsPress
• Xlibris
• SelfPublishing
• Most Private Publishers

Please Note: If you are having BookServ design your book cover or page layout design, your formatting services are included in your package.

Professional quality, superior customer service and fast turnaround are the standards we work by. Rest assured that your book is in the right hands when you trust BookServ for all your design layout and formatting needs.