These are traditional publishers creating books for a consumer readership. While the internal company structures and organization of conventional trade publishers vary, each generally publishes books in a broad variety of formats hardcover, trade paperback, mass market paperback, e-books, audiobooks , and a wide selection of topics and genres.
Note that some trade book publishers are parts of larger media entities that may also own textbook publishers. While there are many trade publishers in the United States, the major ones are referred to as "the Big Five " book publishers.
Book packagers are companies specialize in creating books to be published under the imprint of a trade publisher. Another way to look at is that the publisher "outsources" the development of their book.
In adult publishing, packaged books often involve a lot of photography or illustration, and the publisher finds it more cost-effective to buy the books already produced than to develop and produce the volumes themselves.
Some young adult fiction series are also packaged. The book packager develops an idea for a book or series of books and then sells the concept to a publisher.
The packager then does all of the editorial and production work for the publisher with publisher approval at key junctures of the process and generally ships the finished books directly to the publisher's warehouse. In some cases, the packager provides the files, and the book publisher prints and binds the books. While the name of the book packager is usually unknown to the consumer buying the book, there's typically an indication of the packager somewhere on the title page.
The authors of packaged books are generally contracted as "work for hire;" that is, they are paid a flat fee and do not get paid royalties on the book sales. An example of a book packager is the San Francisco-based Weldon Owen.
These publishers create low-cost books and book-related products such as calendars or activity kits that include books for the "bargain" section of the bookstore. Revising manuscripts Factsheets. Techniques for novelists Factsheets.
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