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.
Take a virtual tour of Friesens’ state-of-the-art book printing facilities in Altona, MB!
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.
Expanded Retailer Metadata
(powered by Bookmanager)
Expanded Retailer Metadata boosts FriesenPress authors’ book visibility among a network of key North American retailers — including McNally Robinson.
Included in all Publishing Paths, Expanded Retailer Metadata populates essential metadata (like your cover art, book description, and about the author) at 500+ booksellers who rely on Bookmanager’s bibliographic database. Combined with Bookmanager’s data-driven insights for retailers, your listings’ enhanced accuracy, professionalism, and discoverability help maximize your sales potential.
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.
Returns Management Program
First Year: $399 | First Two Years: $499
Subsequent Yearly Renewals: $249 per year
For physical and many online bookstores to stock your title, it must be sold with a ‘returnable’ status. A standard practice with traditional publishers, returnability gives retailers valuable peace of mind of knowing they have the option of returning a book down the road. This means they are much more likely to take a chance on a new author.
FriesenPress’s Returns Management Program is a safety net that both protects you and makes your book more appealing to the booksellers and retailers interested in purchasing it.
After enrolling in our Returns Management Program, your title will appear with ‘returnable’ status through Ingram Book Company – the largest book wholesaler in North America. Over the course of your one or two year agreement, FriesenPress ensures that retailers are reimbursed for the print and shipping costs of all returns of your books*. Our custom royalties dashboard also makes it easy for you to see the channels through which your books are being sold and returned.
Returns Management can be renewed yearly and is included in Signature, Ever After, and Masterpiece Publishing Paths.
*Royalties earned on returned books will be deducted from future royalty payments.
