Infinity Publishing Reviewer's Comments

If you're looking for an inexpensive publishing package and you're good at doing your own marketing and promotion, then our #3 pick and "TopTenREVIEWS Bronze Award" winner, InfinityPublishing.com is a perfect match. The Infinity Publishing paperback package offers basic publishing services, superior bookselling reach and comes standard with a bookseller return program.

Although competitively priced, Infinity Publishing's general lack of marketing and promotional services kept it from beating out iUniverse.com and Authorhouse.com for our top spots.

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Publishing Package:  

When publishing through InfinityPublishing.com, it takes an average of six to nine weeks to work through the entire process. And, when you sell books, you'll receive a 30 percent royalty of the cover price on books purchased directly from Infinity Publishing and a 15 percent royalty of the wholesale price for all books purchased from third-party retailers.

Basic publishing also gives you manuscript layout and formatting, ISBN number assignment, barcode creation, and original cover design. We also take our hats off to Infinity Publishing, as they include a bookseller return program as part of their basic package, a deal which allows authors to guarantee retailers returns on unsold books, a condition that most book retailers require.

By purchasing this service, InfinityPublishing.com will send out copies of your book for critical review, provide you with author discounts and gives you three author copies of your book. This service also signs you up for the company's monthly newsletter, which contains articles on writing and book marketing and informs you of writer's conferences, seminars and writing contests.

However, this service does not come with a free editorial evaluation, Library of Congress Control number assignment and ebook formatting-interior image placement and CD ROM archiving is available at an additional fee. Website domain registration is also not included in the price of the package, nor is there creation of a customized sales sheet or the facilitating of author interviews.

Bookselling Reach:  

InfinityPublishing.com, established in 1997, has published over 3,000 titles. For book distribution, this service uses Baker & Taylor, Inc, making their published authors available to over 20,000 retail outlets.

Infinity Publishing also offers its authors one of the broadest number of online retailers through whom to sell books, including their own bookstore at Buybooksontheweb.com and at Amazon.com, Borders.com, Waldenbooks.com, Buy.com, Booksamillion.com and BarnesandNoble.com. In all, this service has helped its authors sell over 170,000 of their books to date.

Additional Paid Services:  

For an additional price, you can receive copyediting services, original art and illustrations created for your book and expedited publishing. Infinity Publishing is the only print-on-demand publisher we found that offered audio book formatting.

For promotional purposes, you can purchase how-to, book-marketing literature and receive co-op advertising through Forward Magazine. This company also offers a paid service where they will create full-color posters, single-sheet flyers, business cards, bookmarks and postcards to use while promoting your book. Infinity Publishing also hosts not-for-profit conference, focused on helping writers to become more successful at selling their books.

Help/Support:  

InfinityPublishing.com received a perfect score from us for help support as they offer toll-free phone and email support, a brief FAQs section. This service also offers a bulletin board where its authors can get together and discuss publishing topics.

Summary:  

If you're looking for an inexpensive, print-on-demand service that focuses on helping you sell books through retail outlets and you don't need marketing services, then Infinity Publishing is right for you.