Morgan James Publishing

Morgan James Publishing offers you the advantages of traditional publishing as well as the time-to-market benefits normally associated with self publishing.

We allow you to maintain your creativity of your book without demanding the rights to it. We produce high quality books, each with a custom cover. We make your book available everywhere readers buy books.

Morgan James Publishing has physical book store distribution and detailed title listing in our US distribution partners and provides coverage to over 90% of all retail bookstore outlets in the US and Canada. With channels like Ingram Publisher Services (IPS), Borders, Bertrams, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Baker & Taylor, BookSource, etc. and detailed title listings provided to our International distribution partners.

The Morgan James Process is simple.

Your business, self-help, health manuscript, or inspirational proposal will need to be reviewed by Morgan James Publishing and an author interview will need to take place.

Your manuscript proposal will be accepted, rejected or referred by Morgan James Publishing or one of our many imprints.  Please note that Morgan James receives approximately 4,000 manuscript proposals each year, but only publishes an average of 130.

If your manuscript is one of those 3% accepted, our professional staff guides you through the publication process. We don't charge a huge price for services, and our costs are clear so you know exactly what you are getting prior to submitting your manuscript. After publication, we offer marketing support that helps you find the audience for your book.

We offer the very best distribution for your book. Our extensive distribution network ensures your book is available for order at thousands of bookstores across the country. With channels like Ingram Publisher Services, Borders, Bertrams, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Baker & Taylor, BookSource, and many, many more, it's no wonder Morgan James Publishing is so in demand!

We help you make your book stand out by providing a professionally-designed custom cover. People do judge a book by its cover. Make a great first impression with a professionally designed custom book cover. All Morgan James Publishing books receive a unique cover that incorporates your ideas in order to give your book a custom look, all without additional charges.

Plus exclusive contracts, Paperback, Hardcover, eBook and Audio options, and one-on-one publishing support to guide you through the publishing process. Why would you want to publish any other way?

What you get with Morgan James Publishing:

World Wide Distribution: Your Book will be assigned a unique ISBN number, as well as inclusion in RR Bowker's "Books in Print", the industry's most up-to-date listing of book, spoken-word audio, and video products. Your book will also be available via online retailers like Amazon.com, Borders.com, Target.com, VirginMega.com and Waldenbooks.com and customers can purchase your book at thousands of traditional bookseller worldwide through channels like Ingram Publisher Services, Borders, Bertrams, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Baker & Taylor, BookSource, etc.

Morgan James Publishing sells your books to booksellers and leading wholesalers via Ingram Publisher Services (IPS) at an industry leading 45-55% discount. Why is this important? The leading book wholesalers in the US and Canada (Ingram and Baker & Taylor) and in the UK (Bertrams and Gardners), are involved in roughly half of the trade book sales in the United States and United Kingdom. The new deeper wholesale discount means that Ingram and Baker & Taylor will resell your book to thousands of retailers at discounts of 45-55% off this list price. The deeper discount gives book retailers more incentive to sell your title. The discount and margin book stores receive is similar to traditionally published titles. They can order replacement copies from their favorite wholesaler-whether that's Ingram, Baker & Taylor, or any other major wholesaler.

Authors with Morgan James Publishing are placed in the Ingram Advance Catalog upon release. The Ingram Advance is a monthly catalog that is distributed to booksellers and libraries around the world.

When books are first released through Morgan James Publishing, Ingram will produce a short paragraph describing the title. Retail pricing information and a black & white cover image will also be included. 

Authors with Morgan James Publishing also benefit from a unique relationship with Google.

Morgan James Publishing opens your book to the worldwide Google audience that's searching for them. The Google Print program enables us to add your book to Google's search results and increase your books' visibility, attract new readers and boost book sales.

Clicking on one of your titles in the Google search results will lead users to the page from the book on which the search terms appear, as well as links leading to online booksellers. When a user does a Google search, books that contain their search terms—will show up in the search results. Each Google Print search result listing will show the book’s title and author, a short excerpt containing the highlighted search terms, and the excerpt’s page number.

Clicking on your book on a search results page takes users to a Google Print content excerpt page–the scanned page from your book that contains their search terms. Users will be able to view information like the book’s author, publisher and cover image. There's also an easy way to do searches within your book, and the 'Buy this Book' links take users directly to leading online booksellers.

Users get a taste of your book—but only a taste. We allow Google to scan the full text of your book because we want people to be able to search all its content. But users can only access a limited portion of any given book each month. They can also only browse two pages backward and forward from any page where their search term appeared.

All the books we send to Google are hosted on Google servers and protected by the same security as Google.com’s search data.

To further protect your book content, printing and image copying functions are disabled on all Google Print content pages.

For example take a quick look at the backend of the new Google Print program by clicking here.

Morgan James Publishing and Google - Partnering for your success!

Morgan James Publishing offers even more with...

Generous Royalties: Our publishing agreement allows you the benefits of traditional publishing while enjoying a generous 20% royalty - higher than industry standards. 

One-on-one Author Support: Our one-on-one author support means you get the expert assistance you need throughout the publishing process.

Custom Cover: Your book will have a custom-designed, four-color cover, created with your input, by our professional book designers. We welcome your ideas - and you can even submit your own pictures or graphics if you wish.

Author Purchases: Since our inception, Morgan James Publishing continues to stand out from the crowd of small publishers. In a world full of self-publishing companies, or vanity press printers posing as publishers, with goals seemingly set on selling you as many copies of your own book as you can or can not afford, Morgan James Publishing rose above with its policy against marketing to or requiring you to purchase any copies of your own book.

It is rewarding to see your words in print, but we want to help you make publishing a financially rewarding experience too. With this in mind, we offer our authors fixed pricing on book purchases. Not a discount off retail price.

Rapid Availability: Your book will be made ready for sale in just 120 days or less; months faster than industry standards. With strategic launches that maximize your exposure and profits.

Manuscript Submission Process and Policies

The process that will transform your manuscript into a printed and bound book is launched at what is called The Entrepreneurial Vision™ Mastermind. In this mastermind, the people who will be working diligently to guide your book successfully through the production process, including the creative director (who is primarily responsible for The Entrepreneurial Vision™, design and schedule) and the designer (who is primarily responsible for cover art, typesetting, and proofs), discuss such matters as the entrepreneurial aspects the manuscript needs, exactly how cover art should be handled, whether any essential items from the manuscript package are missing, and the design of the published book. Soon after The Entrepreneurial Vision™ Mastermind your Author Relations Manager will contact you, in order to ask any questions we might still have about the manuscript and to tell you what the production schedule is going to be.

At this point the creative director will have the designer prepare the cover layout, and will be closely monitoring his or her work. Depending on the extent of any recommendations, the swiftness of the schedule, and several other factors, you will receive a cover proof to review.

Just about the time we are finalizing the cover of your book, you will get the page proof of the front matter (which includes the title page, Contents, Preface, etc.) to review.

The next step in the production process is typesetting. The resulting page proof, which will look pretty much like a published book, is sent to you for a thorough review, as well as to an experienced freelance proofreader. The proof may be sent in stages, and you will have a week or so to scrutinize each stage.

You will return reviewed page proof to the production supervisor, who will oversee the generation of revised proof, which will contain any changes you marked as well as typos and design errors discovered by the proofreader.

While the page proof is being checked, the index must be prepared, if desired, either by you or by an experienced freelance indexer. (If a freelancer prepares the index, you must pay for it.) At an early point in the production process, the creative director will discuss the index with you, and can give you guidance if you decide to do it yourself.

Within a few weeks of this, your completed book will be sent to the printer, and about a month later, printed and bound copies will start being shipped to our warehouse and thus will be available for purchase. You are now a published author. Congratulations!

What Morgan James Publishing and it's Imprints Publish as listed under the BISAC SUBJECT HEADINGS:

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
    BUS000000    BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General
    BUS012000    BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Careers / General
    BUS075000    BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consulting
    BUS092000    BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General
    BUS090000    BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / E-Commerce / General
    BUS025000    BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship
    BUS079000    BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Government & Business
    BUS080000    BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Home-Based Businesses
    BUS030000    BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Humor see HUMOR / Topic / Business & Professional
    BUS040000    BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Mail Order
    BUS043000    BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Marketing / General
    BUS050000    BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Personal Finance / General
    BUS054000    BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate
    BUS058000    BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Sales & Selling
    BUS060000    BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Small Business
COMPUTERS
    COM064000   COMPUTERS / Electronic Commerce
    COM065000   COMPUTERS / Electronic Publishing
    COM060000   COMPUTERS / Internet / General
EDUCATION
    EDU000000    EDUCATION / General
HISTORY
    HIS000000     HISTORY / General
POLITICAL SCIENCE
    POL000000    POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
RELIGION
    REL000000    RELIGION / General
    REL006000    RELIGION / Bible / General
    REL070000    RELIGION / Christianity / General
SELF-HELP
    SEL000000    SELF-HELP / General
    SEL021000    SELF-HELP / Motivational & Inspirational
    SEL031000    SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General
TECHNOLOGY
    TEC000000    TECHNOLOGY / General

What Morgan James Publishing Won't Publish

Morgan James Publishing will not publish books that violate or infringe upon any personal or proprietary right, including, without limitation: copyrights, trademark rights, trade secret rights, contract rights, privacy rights, or publicity rights of any other persons.

In addition, we will not publish work that is defamatory or pornographic or obscene to a degree that it would not be carried by a traditional trade bookstore.

Books cannot, in any other way, be illegal or include any recipes, formulae, instructions, or recommendations that may be injurious to any reader, user, or third person.

Works in the Public Domain

Morgan James Publishing will not typically republish works in the public domain.  However, under our imprint Knowledge Exchange Press publishes selected public domain works, provided the works have been cleared by our Public Domain Attorney.  Public domain works are subject to additional fees.

Book Pricing

The book price is set jointly by competing titles, the Author and Morgan James Publishing once the manuscript has been submitted and has gone through our Entreprenuerial Vision Mastermind. The following table provides you with an estimate of what your book price should be. This table doesn't guarantee that your book will fall within this range, however, you'll know once your manuscript has been submitted and gone through production.

Manuscript Word Count           Page Count*           Recommended Price Range*  
20,000 (or less)                       75 (or less)              $8.95-$10.95
40,000                                     120                          $10.95-$13.95
60,000                                     180                          $13.95-$16.95
80,000                                     240                          $15.95-$19.95
100,000                                   300                          $17.95-$21.95
120,000                                   360                          $20.95-$23.95
140,000                                   420                          $22.95-$26.95
160,000                                   580                          $25.95-$29.95
180,000                                   540                          $27.95-$31.95
200,000                                   600                          $29.95

* Estimated page count and book price.

If you would like to increase or decrease the price of your book for competitive reasons, please contact your Author Relations Manager.

Choose Morgan James Publishing

Morgan James Publishing gives you the muscle to succeed. We provide you with the tools and the one-on-one assistance to give your book the best chance at success.

Morgan James Publishing is committed to our authors' success. Get Published Today!