The description of the various fields are given below
- Title: Book Title
- Interior File: Your finally formatted, ready to print Interior File. If your Interior and/or Cover Files are not yet ready, do not submit the book. First prepare the files. The specifications for preparing interior file is here.
- Cover File: Your print ready Cover file prepared according to our specifications.
- Binding Type: Saddle Stitch Binding is center pinning. Perfect binding is usual soft cover binding you see in book stores. Hardcover binning in case binding, with cover pasted (not dust jacket). Saddle Stitch Binding is available for 64 or lesser number of pages. Perfect Binding is available for 50 or more pages. Hardcover binding is available for 150 or more pages. Select accordingly.
- Color Scheme: Whether the interior of your book should be printed in black and white or colored. Please note that the book can be priced according to either all pages colored or all page black and white. Selected pages can not priced as colored. If even one page is to be printed in color, it will have to be priced as a fully colored book.
- Orientation: If the binding it to be done along the long edge, you should choose portrait orientation. Most books fall under this category.
- Size: This is the page size of your book. It must correspond with the page size of your interior file.
- Paper Type: This is for selecting interior paper type. Between Plain Paper and Coated Paper, Plain paper would be good for most books. For gift books or for colored books coated paper can be chosen.
- Lamination: How do you want your cover lamination to be? You can select between glossy and matte.
- Preview Range: 10 or more consecutive pages from the interior that should be shown as preview. Please keep in mind the following
- Minimum 10 pages must be specified
- The Preview must begin from an odd page.
- Only consecutive pages can be shown in the preview. Pages from different places in the book can not be used.
- Author: Author's Name as it appears on the book. This will be listed as it is. So, if a pen name has been used in the book, the same should be filled here too. If there are more than one authors, use the + sign to add more.
- MRP: The price of the book.
- Subtitle: Optional subtitle of the book.
- Who can buy? Select "Only Me" if you want to keep the book private. Select "Everybody" if you want others to be able to buy a copy.
- ISBN: If you have an ISBN for the book, please fill it here. It is optional, but once entered it should not be changed. Different editions of the book and different formats (paperback, hardback, e-book) should all have different ISBNs. Do not use an ISBN that doesn't belong to you and is not being uniquely used for this book. It can create problems in listing your books on various retailers.
- Can ship to: If you have a higher-priced edition outside India, or for any other reason do not want us to ship outside India, you should select "Only India" as the option. Else, you should select "Everywhere".
- Language: Language of the Book. You can select up to two languages, if your book is multi-lingual.
- Category: Genre of the Book. You can select up to two, if it belongs to multiple genres.
- Publisher: If somebody other than author is the publisher, fill up the name here. DO NOT use our name as the publisher.
- Book Description:About your book. You want to write something that will entice the readers to buy it.
- Author Description: About the author.