Brochure
Digital Legend Press is a full service publishing company dedicated to the idea of bringing a wide and diverse array of thought-provoking and exciting new titles to market. Digital Legend is a bit of a departure as conventional publishers go. Why? Because when other publishers say, "no way" we say, "why not?"
No, we are not a "self-publishing" house, but we do sincerely consider all manuscripts for possible publication. We are also fundamantally different from a traditional publisher in that we operate on a near-zero inventory basis at any given time. As a result, you will never see Digital Legend titles on the "fire sale" rack at your local bookseller. We never have too many or too few books in stock. How is this possible? We leverage the full power and flexibility of one of the nation's top on-demand print providers. This allows us to print only the books that are needed and wanted based upon actual buyer demand, not upon our inventory pressures.
"Real-Time Publishing" opens up new possiblities, such as personalizing each and every copy of a book or publication.Think of that for your gift-list this year. A book that has the recipent's name printed into the cover on on the interior of the book.
Digital Legend supplies you as an author with everything you need to get professionally published. A team of skilled editors, designers and typesetters will work with you to get your manuscript polished and print-ready quick and inexpensively. Once the book meets DLP's stingnet quality standard and is print-ready, Digital Legend will publish your book through an array of innovative channels. One of the keys to your success is Digital Legends' unique ability to print, bind and ship ONE-BOOK-AT-A-TIME and still be able to pay a handsome royalty to the author all while avoiding excess inventory! That translates into maximum publisher flexibility and no heavy cash outlay for either party.
How will your physical media (book/card/CD/DVD/sheet music, etc.) reach the market?
Digital Legend is designed and optimized for web-based Real-Time ordering and direct distribution. This means that you can leave the work of order-taking, printing, marketing and distribution to us!
Orders are received through the internet (sales continue 24x7 as you sleep, work, vacation, travel. etc.).
How does the Digital Legend experience work?
In the exact moment a customer orders a book from your website, the last keystroke sends a print-signal to our state-of-the art Digital Press (fully automated Book Factory. The individual book is e-tagged and submitted as a live print job. Your work is printed, bound and trimmed with virtually no human intervention. Once complete, your book (or other publication), is packaged, labled and shipped directly to the end-user, all within 24-48 hours of the order being received!
As an author, you get a monthly sales statement and a royalty check at the end of every quarter.
Costs
In a real-time digital print paradigm, middle-men are removed from the supply chain. This means book proceeds are split among fewer people. So it is not appropriate to compare print price alone. Vegetables are cheaper on the farm but nobody complains that the grocery store charges more than the farm because of the convenience the grocery store offers. It is appropriate to compare that which matters most to you (the author/creator) and that is royalty-per-copy. With Digital Legend, you get much higher royalties, period.
One-time set-up fee starts as low as $399 The set-up fee includes a free proof-copy (including overnight delivery), mastering fees for your virtual book, a free listing on Amazon.com, your own private BookLink URL and integration of your title into our virtual print-on-demand library. Or we can integrate with your own webpage and shopping cart so that after you collect the funds a signal will be sent to our digital press which automatically prints, binds and ships each order as it comes in.
Deluxe Publishing packages that take your manuscript from text to a print ready published book begin as low as $500.
Our Business model assumes one-book-at-a-time fulfillment. Most printers/publishers are not interested printing just one copy of your book and then mailing it to your customer! They only want to deal with heavy hitters, out-of-the-park home-runs and grand slams, unfortunately it is nearly impossible to know in advance exactly which titles are going to be best sellers and vice-versa. Of course, when best sellers arise we are fully process capable of switching over to a "hybrid" model that supports a combination of offset runs for the bulk of the orders (filling a national supply chain for example) and then filling the long tail with POD books off our presses. Bulk orders receive deep price reductions (those costs are available upon request).
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Choose from numerous Digital Products, including case bound books, greeting cards, book-marks, photobooks, calendars, posters, post cards, mailers, you name it, we print and fulfill it all in real-time.
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What about Capacity and Turnaround?
Digital Legend's Print Partner, ColorCentric Corp. is considered to be one of the most advanced Real-Time print providers in the North America. They print an average of 150,000 to 300,000 books per month out of their Rochester, Reno, Calgary and Oregon based operations. DLP's relatively small volume joins with their large scale business, resulting in our remarkably low costs and rapid turnaround. Statistically, 95% of all orders are out the door in less that 48 hours from time of order.
If Digital Legend's innovative approach to publishing and printing fits your style, please contact me by e-mail with the particulars of your project (book binding style; size-format; # of pages and marketing plans, etc.) to boyd@digitalegend.com and we will be happy to reply by e-mail or phone with a more detailed quote. I will also work with you in person to guide you through the often times confusing process of getting published in today's high-tech and rapidly changing world.
Boyd J. Tuttle
President
(585)703-8760
