Everything a finished manuscript needs to become a book on sale.
Quoted flat after your free assessment
For the author whose manuscript is done and who wants it published properly, without buying services it does not need.
A book on sale is not a book that sells. This package adds the selling.
Quoted flat after your free assessment
Everything in Launch-Ready, plus:
For the author who wants the book made well and sold hard, with one team accountable for both.
The whole imprint behind one author.
Quoted flat after your free assessment
Everything in Bestseller Build, plus:
For the author building a body of work and a readership, not just releasing a title.
Every package starts the same way: a free manuscript assessment and one flat figure, in writing. Prefer a single service? Browse all twelve.
What “flat” means here
No royalty share
We charge for work performed, never a percentage of your book’s sales.
No hourly meters
One figure for the whole engagement. It does not change mid-project.
Quote in writing
The price arrives on paper with a dated schedule, before any work begins.
Valid 30 days
Take the quote away and decide without pressure. The number holds for a month.
Custom work & ghostwriting
Ghostwriting, co-writing, and unusual projects are quoted individually after a scoping call, because no honest flat price exists before we understand the book. The process is the same as everything else here: we listen, we put a flat figure in writing, and that figure does not move. NDA first, always.
Questions & answers
Most professionally produced ebooks cost $2,000 to $5,000 all in, and editing plus cover design take the largest share of that. A bare-bones release can be done for a few hundred dollars, but the corners you cut show up in reviews and returns. Caples Press quotes a fixed price before work begins, so the number you approve is the number you pay.
Yes. Copyright is yours the moment you write the work, and platforms like Amazon KDP take only a license to distribute, never ownership. Caples Press works the same way: you keep 100% of your rights and 100% of your royalties, and we never take a percentage of sales.
Once your manuscript is final, formatting, cover design and store setup usually take two to four weeks, and Amazon approves most new ebooks within about 72 hours of upload. Add professional editing and the full path from draft to on-sale typically runs eight to twelve weeks. A traditional publishing deal, by comparison, commonly takes a year or more.
Ebooks priced between $2.99 and $12.99 on Amazon KDP earn a 70% royalty, so a $4.99 ebook pays you roughly $3.49 per copy. Print editions net less after printing costs, usually 30 to 40% of list price. Either way it is several times the 10 to 15% a traditional contract pays, and you are paid monthly instead of twice a year.
Not on Amazon: KDP assigns your ebook a free identifier automatically. If you want your book in libraries, bookstores and wide distribution with your own name listed as publisher, buy your own ISBN so the industry record belongs to you and not a platform. We handle ISBN registration as part of every publishing package.
It depends on what your book has to do. If it only needs to exist, publish it yourself for free. If it needs to sell copies, win clients or build authority, professional editing, a category-correct cover and a real launch plan are the difference between a book that ranks and a book that sinks, and they cost a fraction of what a single lost year of sales does.