What are the costs?
What are the costs?
To give you an idea of what it costs to self-publish with Staging Post, here are a few standard book sizes typical for the fiction, general non-fiction, children’s and cookery/photography genres.
These are intended as estimates only. Please fill in the questionnaire below and contact us for an itemised quotation specific to your book. We’d love to know more about the kind of book you’d like to make. Download enquiry questionnaire here.
The total costs of creating your book includes:
PRODUCTION SERVICES
These costs are ‘fixed’ for your project as they remain the same irrespective of the number of copies printed.
COPY-EDITING
COVER DESIGN
INTERIOR LAYOUT AND DESIGN
PROOFREADING
E-BOOK CONVERSION (E-PUB)PRINT SERVICES
Print costs are ‘variable’, as they are dependent on the number of copies you choose to print.
The specifications indicated with each option indicate the inclusions.
ADD TOGETHER THE PRODUCTION COST AND PRINT COST OF THE RELEVANT NUMBER OF COPIES
FOR THE TOTAL PRICE.
FICTION BOOK (Novel)
Cover: Soft, Matt
Size: 212mm x 136mm
Number of Pages: 200
Images: None, Text only
Production Costs: R55 000
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Print Costs
50 COPIES: R3 800
100 COPIES: R5 700
250 COPIES: R12 800
500 COPIES: R22 500
COOKERY/PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOK
Cover: Soft, Glossy
Size: 255mm x 190mm
Number of Pages: 200
Images: Full colour with up to 150 images
With Index and cover flaps
Production Costs: R55 000
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Print Costs
50 COPIES: R6 500
100 COPIES: R11 600
250 COPIES: R28 600
500 COPIES: R53 900
CHILDREN’S BOOK
Cover: Soft, Glossy
Size: 260mm x 190mm
Number of Pages: 32
Images: Full Colour illustrations, one image per page
Production Costs: R30 000
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Print Costs
50 COPIES: R3 600
100 COPIES: R5 700
250 COPIES: R11 900
500 COPIES: R22 300
NON-FICTION BOOK (full-length)
Cover: Soft, Glossy
Size: 235mm x 135mm
Number of Pages: 264 pages with 8 page one full colour image section (Up to 32 images – 4 per page)
Images: Full Colour, four images per page
With Index
Production Costs: R83 000
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Print Costs
50 COPIES: R6 200
100 COPIES: R10 300
250 COPIES: R22 200
500 COPIES: R42 000
NON-FICTION BOOK (pocket-size)
Cover: Soft, Glossy
Size: 235mm x 135mm
Number of Pages: 200 pages – With Index
Production Costs: R41 400
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Print Costs
50 COPIES: R3 800
100 COPIES: R6 200
250 COPIES: R12 200
500 COPIES: R22 500
NOTES:
These prices do not guarantee project costs.
Any variation from the specifications indicated here will result in changes to the cost.
Services not mentioned above are excluded from the cost.
Some services included may be affected by exchange and inflation rates, and can fluctuate without notice. Print costs are only valid for one month.
For the options above which include images or illustrations, the costs are dependent on those being supplied to us in a high-resolution (300 dpi or more) digital format (open InDesign files or JPEG, TIFF or EPS files only). If you are providing hard copy/physical copies of your photographs or illustrations to us, they will be subject to a scanning fee.