BookDesign.ca

1040 Springboard Place
Victoria, BC    V9B 3E1
CANADA

Jim Bisakowski
Phone: (250) 478-5111

Call or email if you have questions,
or would just like to talk about publishing.

email: bookdesign@shaw.ca

Get A Free Estimate

ost publishing projects are unique and costs can vary
substantially. Our fees are based on $75/hr. See this link for payment methods.

If you would like a free cost estimate for your self-publishing book project, e-mail the details and I'll get back to you that day or the next.

For your guidance and to help me better estimate the cost, some items that have a bearing on costs are listed below. You can copy this text and place it directly into your email.

1. What is your book about?      
   

2. Approximately how many pages?      

3. What is the physical size of your book?      

4. Inside pages - color or all black ink?    
   

5. Inside paper color - (white, crême, ?)

6. Cover - soft paperback or hard cover (with
   dust jacket or case laminate)?

7. Do you have a cover design in mind?      

8. Photos or illustrations supplied? How many?      

9. Any charts, tables or graphs? How many?      

10. Will it have an index, bibliography, footnotes,
    endnotes, or glossary?      

11. Will all text be supplied as an electronic file?      

12. Will the file be provided in MS Word using
    Word's paragraph styles feature?      

13. Do you plan also to produce it as an e-book?      

14. When would you like the finished product?      

15. Who will be printing your book?
    

16. How many copies do you plan to print?

17. What is the ISBN?

18. What price will you want on the back cover?     

19. Where are you?     

Send Big Files

Sending files as attachments to your emails is probably the easiest way to upload files to BookDesign.ca, but if you have very big files that your e-mail server can't handle (bigger than 15MB - 20MB), you may want to use the easy and free wetransfer service.

Click on the wetransfer link above, then select the ? for easy instructions when the wetransfer web page appears. (Skip the ad page if it comes up first)

If you have many files or a whole folder of files you wish to send, they can be compressed into one .zip file. If you need help in compressing files or folders into zip files, have a look at  this page.