After pouring your soul and countless hours into your work, you need to be sure the printed copies of your book are top-quality and available wherever fine books are sold.
Our relationships with Friesens and Ingram provide our authors with a dynamic range of powerful printing and distribution options with professional results.
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Print-on-Demand
Ingram is the world's largest and most trusted print-on-demand (POD) book manufacturer. Printing with Ingram’s print-on-demand process grants you access to the biggest book distribution network in the world.
POD provides efficiency, economic feasibility, and logistical ease as authors never have to worry about stocking and storing massive quantities of books. Ingram is the perfect option for small print runs and fulfilling individual orders your customers place directly at bookstores.
All FriesenPress Publishing Paths include worldwide print-on-demand distribution to over 50,000 booksellers through Ingram.
Bulk & Custom Print Runs
FriesenPress is part of Friesens Corporation — Canada's largest independently owned printer. They have been in the print business for over 100 years and are experts in book manufacturing.
Printing your books with Friesens means there are essentially no limits to the printing options available to you – all of which provide industry-leading quality. For authors requiring large print runs, Friesens is able to offer exceptional bulk order discounts, in addition to editions with considerable customization features. You can create a custom edition in tandem with your print-on-demand book, or you can focus exclusively on an heirloom book, collector's or limited edition, or high resolution cookbook or art book.
Lifetime eBook Distribution
We believe publishing a book is a feat that should be celebrated not just for a year or two, but forever. That’s why every FriesenPress Publishing Path includes Lifetime eBook Distribution*. eBooks are distributed for life to the FriesenPress Bookstore, Amazon, Google Play Books, Apple Books, and our Expanded Distribution channels: Barnes & Noble Nook and Rakuten/Indigo Kobo.
* Authors may, at their discretion, opt out of book distribution channels. Lifetime distribution is subject to each distribution channels’ terms of service.
Custom printing options available with Friesens
Exterior Features
Dust jackets for trim sizes outside of the standard options available through Ingram.
Embossing or debossing (raised or depressed sections into an otherwise flat cover)
Foil or spot gloss (metallic or shiny finish to sections of a cover)
Die cut covers (cut-outs that reveal content beneath the cover image)
Unique finishes to the cover (for both texture and colour)
Slip covers or book boxes (including hinged boxes, two-piece boxes, or three-sided covers for finished books)
Interior Features
Variable data (such as 1/100 limited edition text, or personalized names in each individual copy)
Glossy interior paper
Full colour inserts into black & white books
Photo inserts on glossy paper into matte finish books
Fold-outs
Deckle paper (rough edges to the paper)
Heavier weight paper and full colour endpapers
…and more!
Friesens facilitates large book orders ideal for organizations, providing copies to friends and family, fulfilling perks from a fundraiser, or working with retailer contracts to supply books to the general public. And if you’re unable to store high quantities of books, Friesens offers fulfillment services for storage and delivery of quantities of 50 or more copies.
For a custom Friesens printing quote, contact us at 1-800-792-5092.
Book Return Insurance
First Year: $299 | First Two Years: $399
Subsequent Yearly Renewals: $149 per year
For bookstores to stock your title, it must be sold to them with a returnable status. This is standard practice with traditional publishers. On-demand publishing services, however, typically sell books as non-returnable since their books only get printed after a sale is made. This approach, although very cost effective for authors, provides a disincentive for bookstores to stock copies of your book.
In order to counter this disadvantage, particularly if you plan to promote your title heavily in the media, you may want to take advantage of our Book Return Insurance service. For a yearly fee, we will list your book as returnable with our wholesaler, thus levelling the playing field with traditional publishers.
Your title will appear with a status of “returnable” with the Ingram Book Company, the largest book wholesaler in North America. This will occur within 3 to 4 weeks from your book being listed for sale with our distribution channels, or, if you have already published your book with us, 3 to 4 weeks from the time you submit your signed Book Return Insurance agreement and payment. Please note that when this service is added post publication, it may take several months for large bookseller chains to update their internal databases to match Ingram's updated ordering information. As a practical matter, we encourage our authors to purchase this service along with their publishing package to eliminate the possibility of lengthy delays later on.
You will be contacted three months prior to the expiration of your agreement to inquire whether you wish to renew your participation in our Book Return Insurance Program for another year.
Book Return Insurance is included in Signature, Ever After, and Masterpiece Publishing Paths.
