Editing
If you have a children's story, photography, an essay, a novel, manuscript of any nature or poetry, which you would like to have published we can have it professionally, reviewed for marketability.
Page Design
The design of your pages has a profound influence on its readability and eventual success. Our professional page designers will provide you with an original design that is both aesthetically agreeable and suitable to your subject.
Cover Design
A smart cover design is fundamental. When people say they don't judge a book by its cover, they really do! We make it easy for you; it can be as simple as stylized typography in one color or a single black and white photograph. You can spend a lot of money on an awful cover, and you can spend a lot less money on a sensational cover. Our excellence is in our work and it shows with perfection at an affordable price!
Printing & Bindingn
Amica is a turn-key operation. Our entire production is initiated and completed under one roof! Amica specializes in providing high-quality multicolor custom and commercial Sheet-Fed printing a well as color separation services for both short and large volume runs at sizable savings to our clients. Amica uses only "state-of-the-art" equipment and the newest technologies in all our printing plants. Our graphics, graphic design department, color separation, Sheet-Fed printing, and binding capabilities are equivalent and surpass many of the largest printers and color separators in North America, yet saving our customers 25-40% on what they're currently paying for printing. Our facilities are equipped for embossing, foil stamping, spot varnishing, UV coating, lamination, die cutting, mylar re-enforcement, card insertions, wire-o binding, board conversion, binders, and slipcase manufacturing. Amica focuses on the printing of; Art and Photography books, Educational Textbooks, Children's books, Atlas, Travel guides, and large multicolor Pictorial Art (i.e. "Coffee-table" books), and magazines. Amica also produces Calendars, Corporate brochures, Catalogs, Greeting cards, Binders, Slipcases, Presentation folders, Posters and Poster books.
Binding
Most every type of binding you can imagine is available at Amica International. If you have an extraordinary binding requirement, please contact our production department to discuss it and receive a quotation. Each of our quotations is customized to meet our unique customer needs. Since our plants being overseas our prices are usually 25-40% lower than USA prices.
Hard Covern
Hardcover books are the most durable, attractive and priceless of all of our bindings. The page signatures are carefully sewn together, reinforced and attached to the cloth-covered hardcover with a specially designed mesh. This kind of binding adds longevity and value to your book, which is immeasurable for a high quality standard that you want to stand the test of time.
Perfect Binding
Perfect Binding is a basic paperback bookbinding. Our Perfect bound books are bound using hot, flexible glue and a wraparound cover also most are smythe sewn. It makes for a very strong, durable yet inexpensive and attractive binding. The book must usually have a minimum of 64 pages to be perfect bound.
Wiro Binding
Plastic Spiral Binding is an ideal binding for books that must open and lie flat, such as teachers' guides, MLM promotion, workbooks, cookbooks, or company manuals. Value added items such as additional pouches, calculators and pens are also available to enhance your product. We have many different styles of covers, leathers and textures, which will ad value, class and life to your binder.
Lamination
Our prices can include gloss or matte nylon lamination, embossing, foil stamping, Mylar re-enforcement, spot varnishing, U. V. coating, lamination, durable products with excellent scuff and scratch resistance.
Quality Control
Amica Internationals staff is available for press checks and the performance of rigorous quality control procedures throughout the production and manufacturing process.
Marketing & Promotion
We know that many authors and writers who self publish their books do it for the simple pleasure and satisfaction of putting their words and ideas on paper. Making a lot of money is not usually their primary motive. But there is nothing wrong with wanting to make money on your book, or at the very least wanting to recoup your investment. And we are convinced that if you are willing, with our help, to participate in the marketing and promotion of your book, your chances of walking away with a few dollars in your pocket are better than if you had gone with a trade publisher. How many dollars depends on how hard you, the author, want to hustle. We'll follow your lead and support your efforts in every way we can. And there are many ways we can. Remember, we are printers, so we can design, print and distribute promotional flyers and advance publicity reviews for our writers at a considerable savings. We will help with author press conference and book signings.
PUBLISHING HINTS
The Copyright
Amica stands ready to assist all of our clients with questions and fulfilling this process. All originals written works should be copyrighted, this is a must! To copyright your book, place a notice on the copyright page. Either the word "copyright" and/or the copyright symbol must appear along with the year of first publication and the name of the copyright owner (see the example). You can then elaborate on the "all rights reserved" phrase if you desire. Check other books for accepted variations.
Example: Copyright © 1999 by William Wordsworth, All rights reserved.
Registering the Copyright
Amica stands ready to assist all of our clients with questions and fulfilling this process. In addition, the Library of Congress Catalog Card Number & ISBN numbers Information is available. Amica stands ready to assist all of our clients with questions and fulfilling all of these processes. These numbers are issued prior to publication, and are reserved for books intended for distribution to libraries.
ISBN
If you plan on selling your book in a bookstore, you will probably need to obtain an ISBN (International Standard Book Number). Your ISBN in combination with a bar code is used by bookstores to order and track titles. If requested, we can furnish a bar code of your number at "no charge".
Marketing Your Book
We are ready to benefit our clients with Marketing. Amica has printed/published many books over the passed eleven years and transferred that publishing knowledge and expertise to our clients at "NO COST." Knowing how to prepare galleys, designed special promotional jackets, where and when to send your book for review and finding distribution channels are a few of the advantages which Amica offers to many of our printing clients. Marketing an unknown book by an unknown author can be a challenge, to say the least. Self-publishers generally do not have the contacts, information or the expertise to maneuver their books into the major book selling avenues.
Another stumbling block is quantity vs. cost. Printing 2,500 books is considerably more expensive per book than printing 10,000 books. Therefore, there is less profit in selling books from a short run. Yet gambling on being able to sell 10,000 isn't a good bet either. The general consensus seems to be, print a smaller quantity and hope to break even. Then go into a second printing if warranted. A second printing is less expensive because most of the setup and film costs have already been paid for.
Targeting your audience early will help you in your marketing efforts and goals. Consider whom your readers will be, as well as how many there are and where they may be located. It's often helpful to talk to bookstore owners about your project. They may be interested in handling your book and may have insights regarding the potential market in your subject area.
Some authors deal with subject matter that has a small field of interest. These books are sometimes easier to sell because it's easier to identify the market. For example, a book on rock hunting in Western Washington might be promoted by sending out flyers to rock clubs in the Northwest with better success than trying to work through a mass-market bookstore.
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