Apricot Books is a Short Run Book Printer
Apricot Books takes your manuscript and prints your book with either perfect bound or wire bound.
We use modern, digital presses and proprietary binding process that allows us to deliver books in as little as three working days.
"Apricot Books Makes
Self-Publishing Easy"
Small Runs done Economically with Apricot
Self-Publish Your Books with Apricot
Apricot Books will economically print up to 500 books on our digital press. And you can have your books in as little as 3 business days.
Choose between perfect bound or wire bound.
Are You an Author?
Fiction or Non-Fiction, from tales to technical: Apricot Books can get you into print.
Whether you are writing memoirs, histories, stories, or the ever popular how-to books, it is wonderful to finally get your manuscript published as a real book.
Traditional publishers need to print and sell thousands of copies, but with Apricot Books self-publishing, you can economically print runs of anywhere from ten copies to hundreds of copies of paperback or wire-bound books.
So whether you want to print just a few books for family and friends, or if you want to strike out into self-publishing, Apricot Books is the solution for you.
Easy As 1 2 3
- Request a Quote
- Make your manuscript print ready
- Upload your files to our system
What is Self-Publishing?
A traditional publisher will effectively handle all aspects of your book, from editing to distribution. The publisher will also own the books that are printed. But all of these services come at a price. Typically, the author will give up a lot of rights in the process.
With self-publishing, the author undertakes the publishing function. Apricot Books will get your book into print and you will own these books. You are then responsible for promoting and distributing your book. But you also keep all of your rights.
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Short Run Book Printing
Short run book printing is producing a small number of books quickly and affordably.
For authors that want to profit from their book, short run printing means that there is a lower financial outlay, lower risk, and lower inventory levels. You can fully test your book's sales potential with minimal investment.
For many other authors, short run printing is the best way to self-publish and preserve your work.
Apricot Books will get your book into print quickly and affordably.
Word, PDF, or In-Design
Just give us your manuscript in either Word, PDF, or In-Design format and you can have your book published.
If you need additional help, Apricot Books can assist you with your layout design, your cover design, image editing, and more.
Authors Keep Their Full Rights
Self-Publishing means that you retain full rights to your work, Apricot Books provides just the printing function and other services to get your book done right. The great thing about Apricot Books is the freedom authors have.
Apricot Books Printed Books Feature:
- Our standard book sizes are: A6, A5, and A4
- Smooth white or recycled paper
- Brilliant glossy colour book cover
- Options for wire bound
- Full Colour Inserts
How To Self-Publish Your Books with Apricot Books
Apricot Books helps authors self-publish their books quickly and economically.
Apricot Books will help you to get your book into print.
Editing
Your book should be properly edited before submitting it for printing. There are a number of options available: a friend or family member, a student from a local college or university, or hiring a professional editor. Although Apricot Books does not offer an editing service, we do refer qualified editors upon request.
Page Layout
Page layout describes the way in which text, photos, charts, and other elements are situated on a page. A page layout which contain no photographs, tables, charts, bullets, or indexes can be created by Apricot Books at minimal charge. If your page layout is more advanced, we would be able to provide a quotation to have our designers create your page layout.
If you are creating your own page layout, then you may need to adjust the page layout of your book. The page layout of your book should be adjusted to look exactly the way it should for printing. This includes choosing the font for the text and headers, as well as the margin size and location of the page numbers. This is something that you can do yourself using a basic computer and software such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, or Adobe InDesign.
Please be sure to include the fonts that are used in your document.
Cover Design
The cover design is the single most important marketing tool used to sell your book. Apricot Books can provide a professional custom book cover design for you. If you have illustrations or photographs you would like to include in your book cover design, our designers will incorporate these images into your cover design.
How To Submit Your Files For Printing
Files may be submitted in a variety of ways. The most common is by regular email (for files under 5 megabytes in size). Our email address for file submissions is info@apricotprint.co.nz. Files larger than 5 megabytes (usually containing photographs) can be sent using our ftp site. An ftp site is a simple way to transfer large files quickly and easily. To send your files by ftp, click here. Files may also be copied to a disk and sent to our location.
It may be necessary to print out one copy of your book from your computer's printer. A printed copy is useful when submitting a Microsoft Word file. We use the printout you provide to compare with the files stored on the disk to ensure the files were not altered in any way while transferring from your computer system to ours. A printed copy is not necessary when sending a PDF file. PDF is an acronym for "Portable Document Format". Once a file has been into a PDF, it can be opened on any computer without problems such as text or photograph shifting. You can create your own PDF file with the proper software.
You may provide a short biography (approx.100 words) and good quality photograph of yourself. If supplied, your photograph and short biography will be incorporated into the design of the back cover of your book at no additional cost.
You may supply good quality artwork or photo image to be incorporated into the book cover design by our graphic designers. This may be in the form of a photograph, negative, print, or high-resolution scanned image (300-600 dpi).
High-quality short-run self-publishing is our specialty. We print runs from 10 books to more than 500 copies, it's no problem.
Your book will be of the same high quality found in the high-street book stores.
From start to finish, Apricot Books can handle the entire self-publishing process for you:
- Layout and text design
- Scanning and digital photo editing
- Copyright registration
- ISBN
- Bar Code Generation
- Cover design
- Custom paperback or wire bound binding
We are your complete self-publishing solution.
Self-Publishing can be easy to do and Apricot Books will be there every step of the way.
Our experience reduces the amount of time and money you spend getting your book into print. Contact us today and learn how you can get your ideas published.
Getting started
1. Prepare your manuscript
We need just your text in a word processor file. Microsoft Word or Word Perfect work fine. Don't spend a great deal of time setting up fonts and formatting... all we need are your words. Provide both a final copy of your text on disk and printed on paper.
Paperback books and books with dust jackets need cover art, including a short summary and author's biography and photograph.
2. If you will be including photographs in your book, please do not embed your photos and images within your word processor file.
- You can scan the pictures as 300-dpi.
- Label each picture with a sticky note and give them a unique file name.
- Write the picture number or file name in the margin of your printed manuscript.
- Write all captions in a separate file with the picture number or file name clearly associated with the caption.