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What Publishing Actually Involves, and Where Professional Help Matters
Publishing a book is a production process, not a single action. A manuscript has to be edited, then designed, then converted into files that meet the specifications of every retailer you intend to sell through. Metadata, categories, ISBNs, trim sizes, and cover dimensions must all be correct before the book goes live, because errors at that stage appear in the finished product. Authors often seek help because the learning curve is steep and mostly irrelevant to writing. Learning it well takes months, and it only applies once per book.
Liberty Book Publishings handles that production work for authors who would rather write. Some arrive with a rough draft that needs editing before anything else. Others have a polished manuscript and only need a cover, correct print files, or distribution set up. Both are normal starting points, and there is no requirement to buy the full process. What stays constant is your involvement: you approve the edit, the cover, the layout, and the proof, and nothing goes to a retailer until you have signed off on it.
- Manuscript reviewed and prepared to professional publishing standards
- Editing matched to what your draft genuinely needs
- Cover and interior designed for your genre and format
- Files built to each retailer's exact technical specification
- Distribution set up across print, digital, and retail channels
Choose the Support Your Book Actually Needs
A children’s picture book and a business memoir need almost nothing in common. One needs illustration and full-colour print files; the other needs a clean interior and strong metadata. Below are the publishing services available individually or in combination, depending on what your manuscript already has and what it still requires.
Self Publishing
You become the publisher of record, keeping your rights, your pricing control, and your royalties. Suited to authors who want independence without doing the production work themselves. Matters because the alternative, signing with a traditional publisher, means giving up rights for a decade or longer.
Amazon Book Publishing
Setup through Amazon KDP for eBook, paperback, and hardcover, including file preparation, cover sizing, categories, and listing metadata. Relevant to almost every independent author, since Amazon accounts for the bulk of independent book sales. Getting categories and keywords wrong is the quietest way to be invisible there.
eBook Publishing
Conversion into properly reflowable digital files that hold their formatting across Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play, and Kobo. Necessary for any book with images, footnotes, tables, or a linked table of contents. Exported Word documents break in ways readers notice immediately and mention in reviews.
Print Book Publishing
Interior layout and cover files built to exact trim size, margin, bleed, and spine specifications for paperback or hardcover. For authors who want a physical book, whether for retail, events, or personal copies. Print has no undo, which is why the technical detail is worth paying attention to.
Book Publishing
Guidance on how copies are actually produced: print on demand for zero inventory and no upfront run, or offset printing for a lower unit cost at volume. Useful for authors selling directly, supplying retailers, or ordering author copies. The right choice depends on quantity, not preference.
Book Distribution
Making your book orderable where readers look for it, from Amazon and the major digital storefronts to bookstores, libraries, and international wholesalers through IngramSpark. Important for authors who want reach beyond a single retailer. Distribution decides availability, and availability quietly limits everything else.
Not Sure Which Services Your Book Needs? Let's Find Out
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How a Manuscript Becomes a Published
Book, Step by Step
Publishing runs in stages, and each one depends on the last being finished properly. Editing before design, design before file preparation, file preparation before release. What holds the sequence together is communication: you approve each stage before the next begins, so nothing moves forward on assumptions.
1
Free Consultation
Tell us about your book and goals.
2
Manuscript Review
We review your manuscript or idea.
3
Proposal
You receive a clear plan and quote.
4
Writing / Editing
You receive a clear plan and quote.
5
Design
Cover and formatting are created profesionally.
6
Publishing
Your book is published in print and digital formats.
7
Marketing
Promotion helps your book reaching to readers
1
Free Consultation
We talk through your book, your goals, and what stage your manuscript is at.
2
Manuscript Review
Our team reads your work to assess what it needs before publication.
3
Proposal
You receive a written scope of work, timeline, and cost with nothing hidden.
4
Writing / Editing
Your manuscript is edited or developed further, depending on the scope you approved.
5
Design
Cover, interior layout, and formatting are built for your chosen print and digital formats.
6
Publishing
Files are prepared to specification and your book is set up on your selected platforms.
7
Marketing
Launch and promotional work begins, if you’ve chosen to include it.
Guided
Where Your Book Can Be Published,
Sold, and Discovered
No single platform reaches every reader. Amazon dominates independent sales but does not supply bookstores or libraries. IngramSpark reaches retail but is not where most readers browse. Apple, Google, and Kobo cover audiences that never open the Kindle app. Which of them are worth setting up depends on your format, your genre, whether physical retail matters to you, and where the people who read books like yours actually shop.
Google Play Books
Google’s eBook and audiobook store, available across Android devices and the web. It reaches readers internationally, particularly in markets where Android is the dominant platform.
Apple Books
Apple’s eBook and audiobook store, built into every iPhone, iPad, and Mac. A meaningful digital channel for readers who stay within Apple’s ecosystem rather than buying through Amazon.
Amazon KDP
Amazon’s self-publishing platform for eBooks and print-on-demand paperbacks and hardcovers. It reaches the largest single book-buying audience online, which makes it the starting point for most authors.
Barnes & Noble Press
Barnes & Noble’s publishing platform for print books and Nook eBooks. Useful for authors who want a presence with a major American bookstore chain alongside their Amazon listing.
IngramSpark
A print and distribution platform that supplies bookstores, libraries, and wholesalers worldwide. This is the route to take when you want your book orderable through retail and library channels.
Kobo Writing Life
Kobo’s eBook platform, with strong readership in Canada, Europe, and through library lending services. Often overlooked, and worth including for authors publishing digitally.
Goodreads
A reader community for reviews, recommendations, and book discovery — not a publishing platform. You cannot publish a book here, but an author profile and listed title help readers find and discuss your work.
The right combination differs from one book to the next. A short conversation is usually enough to narrow it down.
Different Books, Different Requirements,
Different Publishing Paths
A cookbook needs full-colour print files and a layout that survives a kitchen counter. A memoir needs clean typography and careful editing. A children’s book needs illustration before anything else. The titles below reflect that range, and the work involved in each was decided by the book, not by a package.
The Orange Truth
Lane Pipes
Deep Context
Christopher Dewey
Riverstone
Michael Brods
Becoming Her
Erica Fratus
Love Sex Sins
Jasemine Larena
The Orange Truth
Lane Pipes
Cover design, interior formatting, and print publishing setup.
Deep
Context
Christopher Dewey
Manuscript editing and proofreading ahead of eBook and paperback release.
Riverstone
Michael Brods
Full publishing support: editing, design, and distribution across print and digital.
Becoming
Her
Erica Fratus
Original illustration and layout for a full-colour children’s picture book.
Love Sex
Sins
Jasemine Larena
Cover design and typesetting for a print-only hardcover edition.
This Ain't
That
Estella M. Jhonson
Publishing setup and distribution for an existing, previously edited manuscript.
The full portfolio covers more genres and formats. Look for something close to your own book.
Happy Authors Describe What Publishing
With Us Involved
Deciding who to trust with a manuscript is difficult from the outside, and a services page can only tell you so much. In these short videos, authors we have published talk through their own experience: what they arrived with, which parts of publishing they needed help on, and how the work went.
Rick Ainsworth's
Author of American Dictator
Worked with our team on editing, cover design, and Amazon publishing setup.
Debrah Sharpe
author of Bobcat Territory
Came to us with a finished manuscript needing cover design and print formatting.
Rosaria Rizzolo
author of An Italian Girl’s Struggle
Guided through the full process, from manuscript review to print and eBook release.
Before choosing a publishing partner, it is worth hearing from authors who have already been through it.
What Authors Ask Before Starting
the Publishing Process
Most of these questions come up in the first consultation, so it makes sense to answer them here instead. If you are new to publishing, the areas worth understanding before spending anything are cost, timeline, ownership, and what a publishing service can honestly promise. All four are covered below.
1. What are book publishing services?
Book publishing services are the professional stages between a finished manuscript and a book available for sale: editing, cover and interior design, file preparation to retailer specification, ISBN and metadata setup, printing, and distribution. Unlike a traditional publisher, a publishing services company performs this work for a fee without acquiring rights to the book. The author remains the publisher and owner.
2. How much does it cost to publish a book?
Cost depends on the project rather than a fixed rate. The main variables are word count, how much editing the manuscript needs, whether the book requires illustration, whether you want print, digital, or both, and how many platforms you distribute through. Liberty Book Publishings provides a written estimate after reviewing the manuscript, so the scope and price are clear before any commitment.
3. How do I publish my first book?
Finish the manuscript, have it professionally edited, get the cover and interior designed, prepare the files to each platform’s specification, then publish and set up distribution. Most first-time authors publish independently through Amazon KDP, often adding IngramSpark for bookstore and library availability. Each stage can be handled for you if learning the technical side is not how you want to spend the next few months.
4. What does a book publishing company help with?
A publishing services company handles the production and technical work most authors have no reason to know: assessing what a manuscript needs, editing, design, formatting for print and digital, trim and spine calculations, ISBN registration, metadata and category selection, platform setup, and distribution. Marketing support is often available as well. The author keeps decision-making authority throughout.
5. Can you help publish my book on Amazon KDP?
Yes. Amazon KDP setup is handled routinely, covering eBook, paperback, and hardcover editions. That includes preparing interior files to Amazon’s specification, building the cover to the correct trim and spine width for your page count, and completing the listing with accurate metadata, categories, and keywords. The KDP account is set up in your name and royalties are paid directly to you.
6. Do I keep copyright ownership of my book?
Yes. Authors retain 100% copyright ownership. Liberty Book Publishings provides services for a fee and does not acquire, license, or share any rights to your work at any stage. This is the structural difference from traditional publishing, where a publisher typically takes rights for a defined term in exchange for covering production costs. Here the rights never leave you.
7. How long does book publishing take?
Timelines depend on the manuscript and the services involved. A book needing a full edit takes considerably longer than one arriving print-ready and needing only a cover. Design revisions, your own review and approval time, illustration work, and each retailer’s own processing period all affect the schedule. A projected timeline is included in the written proposal, based on your actual scope.
8. Can you help with editing and formatting?
Yes. Editing and formatting are among the most commonly requested services, and many authors arrive with a complete draft that has never been professionally edited. Proofreading, copy editing, and grammar and consistency review are available, alongside interior formatting and typesetting for print and reflowable formatting for eBooks. A manuscript review determines what level of editing the draft genuinely needs.
9. Can you publish print books and eBooks?
Yes, and most authors do both. Print and digital editions require separate file preparation: print needs fixed layout with correct trim size, margins, bleed, and spine width, while eBooks need reflowable text that adapts to any screen or font size. Once the interior is designed, producing both formats adds relatively little to the overall scope.
10. How does book distribution work?
Distribution makes your book orderable through retailers. Publishing through Amazon KDP reaches Amazon customers. Bookstores, libraries, and international wholesalers are generally reached through IngramSpark, which supplies the retail and library supply chain. Broader digital availability comes from listing with Apple Books, Google Play Books, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble Press. Which channels are worth setting up depends on your format and genre.
11. Do authors keep their royalties?
Yes. Royalties are paid directly to you by each platform, into accounts held in your name. Liberty Book Publishings takes no percentage of book sales at any point and has no ongoing claim on earnings. Payment is for the services selected, quoted upfront. This distinguishes a publishing services model from both traditional publishing and royalty-sharing arrangements.
12. Do you guarantee book sales?
No. Sales, rankings, review counts, and bestseller status cannot be guaranteed by any publishing service or traditional publisher, and any company promising specific numbers is describing a hope rather than a service. What can be controlled is the book itself: clean editing, a cover that competes in its genre, readable interiors, accurate metadata, and availability in the right places.
If your question is not above, it is probably specific to your book. That is worth a conversation.
