By Authors, For Authors

 

Abela Business Consulting trading as Abela Publishing

Sandhurst, Berkshire, UK

Registered in England and Wales Co. No. 3866324

Publishing

 

Things you should know about publishing before you start

 

In the publishing world there are two kinds of publishing houses; the Traditional “do it all” publishing house (e.g. Harper-Collins, Penguin etc.) and the Self Publishing, or DIY, publishing model.

 

Traditional Publishing Houses

Should you have been fortunate enough to have a contract with a traditional publishing house, your publisher would have arranged the supply chain, which includes:

 

What you should know is that within this (traditional) model, at every link in this chain, everyone takes their cut and you, the creator of the work, usually ends up with a miniscule royalty while everyone else profits off your hard work.

 

Self Publishing

Within the Self Publishing model the publishing house will (usually) arrange your ISBN, basic or limited graphic design and printing – and charge you for it – and that’s about all you can expect. It will be up to you, the author, to arrange editing, warehousing, distribution, promotion, marketing and sales - all at cost to you and to be done in your own time. Even then the publishing house will still expect you to pay them a commission on every copy sold because they have “published” your book - and as my son would say - Yeah right!

 

 

The Abela Publishing Model

Abela Publishing has positioned itself between these two publishing models. Instead of the high cost traditional publishing model or the desert like self-publishing model, Abela Publishing offers a hybrid of the two - a partnership - in which you, the author, comes first.

 

We offer a hybrid in which we take self-publishing to a new level offering you, the author, a full book editing, printing, publishing and promotion programme for self-published authors.

 

We will not pretend this will not be without investment by you. But we will put in place the wheels and mechanisms that will get your work recognised, published and promoted across the world!

 

 

 

 

 

Without your work we could not exist, and without us, you would find it very hard to publish your work.

 

The only way we can succeed

Is if you succeed