Publishing & Distribution
The stage of the book project nobody wants to do and everyone gets wrong. ISBNs, metadata, retailer setups, distribution channels, and the fiddly details that decide whether your book is findable on Amazon or invisible. We handle every piece of it.
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ISBN registration
We register an ISBN for each format — paperback, hardback, ebook, audiobook — so your book has the identifiers every retailer and library requires.
Metadata optimisation
Title, subtitle, description, BISAC category codes, keywords, and author bio. Metadata is the single biggest lever on Amazon discoverability, and we do not rush it.
Amazon KDP setup
Print-on-demand paperbacks and hardbacks, Kindle ebooks, and Kindle-specific metadata. We set it up in your account so you keep 100% ownership and direct payments.
IngramSpark distribution
Global wholesale distribution to bookstores, libraries, and international retailers. Your book becomes orderable from Waterstones, Barnes & Noble, and every indie bookshop that uses Ingram.
Ebook distribution
Apple Books, Kobo, Google Play, and Amazon — one book, every major ebook store, with consistent metadata across all of them.
Author copies and bulk orders
Set up for bulk author orders, speaking event copies, corporate gifting runs, and any special editions you want to keep in stock.
Sell direct, keep 2.5-3× the profit
Most business authors sell through Amazon and keep whatever thin per-copy margin Amazon decides to leave them. Quartz Press authors can do something better. Through our sister service Print Trail, you can sell your book directly from your own website and make two and a half to three times the profit per copy.
Direct sales also change who owns the customer relationship. When a reader buys your book on Amazon, Amazon owns the relationship. You never get their email address, their name, or any way to follow up. When they buy from your own site via Print Trail, the customer is yours — for your email list, for follow-up offers, for the consulting call that the book was meant to generate in the first place.
Print Trail also makes it easy to send promo copies to key leads and bulk-ship copies to speaking events, keynote venues, and conferences, without the Amazon ordering workarounds that most authors rely on.
You keep 100% of the royalties and every right to the book
Unlike traditional publishers, Quartz Press does not take a cut of your royalties or hold your rights. Quartz Press is the publisher of record, which means the ISBNs are issued by us and your book launches under a professional imprint — the same arrangement any traditional house would use. Everything else is yours: the copyright, the manuscript, the files, the cover, and every royalty dollar the book earns.
If you ever want to bring a second edition in-house or take the rights elsewhere, nothing in our agreement stops you.
Ready to publish your book properly?
Book a strategy call and we will walk you through the publishing and distribution setup for your book.
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