Print-on-Demand
Printers and Publishers
Book Marketing 105: Choosing a Book Distribution System - This vital mini-guide includes criteria for deciding how you will distribute your books. Also includes complete information on 30 distributors, 4 library distributors, 89 book publishers who also distribute for other publishers, 3 sales representatives to the chains, 27 bookstore wholesalers, 34 library wholesalers, and 23 Spanish-language wholesalers. Plus a sample book distribution contract. Ebook download, $30.00.
Top 700 Independent Bookstores - This database features 740 stores with address, book buyer, owner, event coordinator, phone, fax, email, website, and more! Cost: $40.00. This data file features an updated list of the largest indie bookstores that work with authors and buy books from indie publishers. The report comes as a data file download (your choice of Microsoft Access, Excel, or rich text format). The data files do require that you know how to use a database or word-processing program.
Top 101 Book Printers - V W
This page features a list of short-run and long-run printers who specialize in printing books. Many of these book printing companies allow you to submit requests for printing quotations from their website. Please note that this list is a work in progress. If you know of other book printers who should be added to this list, please email John Kremer. Please also let us know if you find any changes, updates, or additions. Thanks.
A listing of a book printer here does not imply an endorsement. Thanks for your support. - self-publishing expert John Kremer
Book Printers:
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Van Volumes, 155 Industrial Drive, Northampton MA 01060; 413-387-6051; 800-290-0462; Fax: 413-283-7884. Email: jerry@tigerpress.com. Web: http://www.vanvolumes.com. Now owned by TigerPress, a commercial printer. Focus on short run paperback books for small publishers and self-publishers.
Vaughan Printing, Howard Smith, 928 6th Avenue S, Nashville TN 37203; Howard: 615-255-0526; 615-256-2244; Fax: 615-259-4576. Email: HowardS@PollockPrinting.com. Web: http://www.vaughanprinting.com. A subsidiary of Pollock Printing. Prints books, catalogs, and magazines.
Versa Press, 1465 Spring Bay Road, East Peoria IL 61611-9788; 309-822-8272; 800-447-7829; Fax: 309-822-8141. Email: salessupport@versapress.com. Web: http://www.versapress.com.
Vicks Lithograph & Printing, Dwight Vicks III, President, 5166 Commercial Drive, Yorkville NY 13495; 315-736-9344. Email: dwight@vickslitho.com or gnelson@vicks.biz. Web: http://www.vickslitho.com. Offset and digital printing of books. Also content management and fulfillment/distribution.
Victor Graphics, 1211 Bernard Drive, Baltimore MD 21223; 410-233-8300; Fax: 410-233-8304. Email: pineapple@victorgraphics.com. Web: http://www.victorgraphics.com. Founded in 1983. Sales offices in New York, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Georgia, Ohio, and California.
Voices and Images, Kathleen Hughes, 1693 Pages Place, Bountiful UT 84010; 801-298-2264. Email: printing@voicesandimages.com. Web: http://www.voicesandimages.com. Offers technical support to prepare your manuscript for printing. Digital and offset printing from 1 to 1,000 copies. Lay-flat binding as well as soft and hardcover bindings in cloth, paper and leather, specialty coatings, and 4-color printing. Specializes in family histories.
Walsworth Publishing, 803 S Missouri Avenue, Marceline MO 64658; 800-369-2646; Fax: 660-376-3940. Email: commercial@walsworth.com. Web: http://www.walsworthprinting.com. Second plant at 1508 Chandler Road, Omaha NE 68147; 402-827-1170; Fax: 402-827-1174. Printer of yearbooks, paperbacks, hardcovers, and more.
Webcom, 3480 Pharmacy Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M1W 2S7 Canada; 416-496-1000; 800-665-9322; Fax: 416-496-1537. Email: webcom@webcomlink.com. Web: http://www.webcomlink.com. New York sales office; Susan Ginch: tradepub@webcomlink.com. Prints books, catalogs, directories, and technical documentation. Full service book manufacturer with complete in-house production, long-run web and short-run digital print as well as electronic publishing products. Offers Otabind lay-flat binding, specialty coatings, extensive paper selection (including recycled grades), and 4-color printing.
Webcrafters, 2211 Fordem Avenue, Madison WI 53704; 608-244-3561; Fax: 608-244-5120. Email: info@webcrafters-inc.com. Web: http://www.webcrafters-inc.com. Sales offices in Connecticut, Florida, California, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Madison. Second plant at 5487 N Blue Bill Park Drive, Westport WI 53597. Bindings: saddle-stitch, spiral, perfect-binding, and Wire-O. Can also do kitting and special packaging.
Whitehall Printing, Sandra Yeyati, Marketing Director, 4244 Corporate Square, Naples FL 34104-4753; 239-643-6464; 800-321-9290; Fax: 239-643-6439. Email: info@whitehallprinting.com. Web: http://www.whitehallprinting.com. Call for their standard pricing sheets. Among the lowest-cost printers in the U.S. since 1959.
Woodward Printing Services, Paul Gradian, 11 Means Drive, Platteville WI 53818; 800-348-5515; Fax: 608-348-2816. Verona plant: 133 Enterprise Drive, Verona WI 53593; 608-845-9559; Fax: 608-845-9550. Email: woodwardprint@wcinet.com. Web: http://www.woodwardprinting.com. "We provide non-heat-set web and 5/C sheet-fed printing as well as mailing services. We print catalogs, brochures, direct mail, books, annual reports, newsletters, forms, letterhead and envelopes."
Worzalla Publishing Company, Mike Tans, Sales and Marketing Manager, 3535 Jefferson Street, P O Box 307, Stevens Point WI 54481; 715-344-9600; 800-442-2463; Fax: 715-344-2578. Email: mtans@worzalla.com. Web: http://www.worzalla.com. This employee-owned printer specializes in short runs of full-color books, especially children's books (80% of their business). Since 1892. Major clients: Houghton Mifflin, Scholastic, HarperCollins.
ZHR Print Packaging and Printing, No. 11 Chuangye Road, Shailongzai, Shuitian County, Shiyan Street, Bao'An District, Guangdong Province, Peoples Republic of China; 86-755-84185978; Fax: 86-755-61641085. Email: support@zrhprint.com. Web: http://www.zrhprint.com. Prints four-color books, children's books, magazines, catalogs, flyers, posters, calendars, packaging, boxes, and more.
1001 Ways to Market Your Books, 6th Edition describes more than 1,000 ideas, tips, and suggestions for marketing books - all illustrated with real-life examples showing how other publishers and authors have successfully marketed their books.
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