Step 1

We assign your book a worldwide ISBN numberWhen you publish with Schiel & Denver Book Publishers, you can dictate your book's distribution territory - i.e., in which global regions you want your book to be distributed and sold. Unless you want to publish privately, your book will automatically be given a worldwide ISBN (International standard book number) and EAN barcode.

An ISBN is required for your book to be handled by bookstores, libraries and other retail outlets. Your book will be registered with the international ISBN agencies, Nielsen BookData and Bowker Books-In-Print, free of charge.You retain all the rights to your work, and can cancel at any time. If you are publishing a hardcover edition of your work, you will get a separate ISBN number.

Step 2

State-of-the-art book printing facilities in USA, Europe and Australia

Schiel & Denver Book Publishers employs state-of-the-art and environmentally sound digital print-on-demand facilities for small orders, and offset print runs for orders over 1500 copies.

The company operates printing and distribution centers in the following locations:

• United States of America (TN, PA and ME)
  • Lavergne, Tennessee
  • Nr Bangor, Maine
  • Allentown, Pennsylvania
• England (Two printing facilities)
• Melbourne, Australia (Offset print runs only)

As a member of the United Nations Global Compact, we are proud to use technology that matches economic supply with demand precisely. With print-on-demand, each book is only printed after an order is placed, which ensures that there is no waste.

With our exemplary quality control, we ensure a bookstore quality product. Both you and your readers will be satisfied with the look and feel of the book, that is equivalent to any softcover or hardcover book found in a retail bookstore, with all the trimmings.

Annual $20 digital maintenance/storage fee

You pay us a small annual fee of $20 per year to maintain your book's production files in our printing servers. Therefore, you control the information that you disseminate and how long you wish your book to be in print. If you desire, your book will never go out of print. We waive this fee for the first year in all our publishing packages.

Step 3

Your book on sale at thousands of bookstores worldwide

Prior to publication, we send bibliographical and descriptive information relating to your book to our international distribution network, which includes thousands of distributors, wholesalers and book retailers.

Your book will go on sale at over 160,000+ online and traditional retail stores, in over 100 countries, across 4 continents. This includes the following leading bookstores in North America and England:

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Books-a-million
• Borders
• Chapters Indigo
• Blackwell
• Foyles
• WHSmith
• Waterstones

and many more, please refer to our international distribution network

Step 4

When an order arrives for your book...

When an order arrives for your book either from a bookseller or trade book distributor in our international book distribution network, we route the order to the printing facility nearest the customer. This book publishing process is called 'electronic routing', and it means your book can be fulfilled immediately, without having to be shipped to it's destination by road or rail.

All U.S. and Canadian orders from bookstores like Barnes & Noble and Amazon, are securely routed to the US facility for intra-American book publishing, printing and distribution. German and Scandinavian orders are routed to either the English or French facility.

• Paperback turnaround is 5-7 Days
• Hardback turnaround is 10-14 Days

Due to the speed and efficiency of print-on-demand, books can be printed in quantities as small as a single copy or as many as as 1.1 million copies. A 500 page book can be printed in under a minute.

International Market Access

The Schiel & Denver model enables authors in the Southern Hemisphere to reach their readers in the Northern Hemisphere, and vice versa. For instance, Spanish writers can now sell their books to the Hispanic community in Latin America, and American writers can reach readers across the Atlantic in Europe and beyond. With successful authors and book publishing partners all over the world, Schiel & Denver Book Publishers has grown into a truly global book publishing operation.

• Learn more about Schiel & Denver's greener environmental policies

Step 5

We take care of all local shipping, packaging and taxes

After Schiel & Denver has printed your book nearest geographical printing facility, we simply use Local Ground shipping with  UPS or U.S. Postal Service in the United States, to deliver your book to the distributor/wholesalers' warehouse or as the case may be, the end-customer (i.e. your readers)

Schiel & Denver operates two warehouses, one in Denver, Colorado and one in Surrey, England, to meet the needs of larger orders from our network partners.

• Learn more about Schiel & Denver's Local Shipping Methods & Costs

Expresso Book Machine (EBM)

Schiel & Denver has partnered with On Demand Books, to make our authors work available through the Expresso Book Machine channel. The EBM is like an ATM machine for books, where readers can walk into stores and have their book printed while they wait. We believe this is the future of book publishing.

Step 6

Author profits from every sale

Print on demand has brought about a fundamental shift in the way in which authors are bringing books to market and in turn, how booksellers are selling them. Rather than having to estimate the demand for every title before it is printed, digital technology is powering a revolution - a revolution in which a sale of a book is made before a copy even exists. Using print on demand, when a book is sold, it is printed and bound as fast as a book can be picked off a book shelf -- either using traditional or point of sale print on demand.

Here are a few ways our authors are benefiting from us combining print-on-demand technology with a streamlined globally distributed print model:

1. Furthering international strategies by entering new markets and extending distribution and fulfillment reach;
2. Driving more book sales for authors with a profit on each sale;
3. Reducing warehousing needs;
4. Using print on demand to mitigate returns;
5. Revitalizing sales with valuable backlist content
6. Facilitating the "long tail" - the practice of allowing consumers to find obscure titles not usually stocked in bookstores.
7. Repurposing existing title lists to drive new revenue streams with large print and alternate languages
8. Providing universal and instant access to a multitude of books
9. Removing supply chain costs from our business model

As the book's manufacture has already been paid for by the buyer, the process is very efficient and you are guaranteed to receive your 50% royalty on every copy that is sold through our international distribution network.

With S&D, you receive some of the highest author royalties available in the publishing services industry today. We provide you with outstanding book production services and international market access, and our authors make a profit on every book sold. We also have no interest in taking any rights to your work. You keep all the book publishing rights to your manuscript. There is also no obligation to buy copies of your book.

Step 7

An ethical dimension

We are happy because we reduce our carbon footprint to the minimum level, but at the same time ensure that our authors can compete with traditional publisher's titles and are not in any way disadvantaged. Our service is fast, reliable and efficient.

We guarantee your readers will also be impressed by speed and high standards of your book, that meet all required industry standards in publishing. We see digital printing as helping the environment by reducing waste. Less books are pulped because they failed to sell, and therefore the number of forests cut down for profit is reduced.

Schiel & Denver prepares written annual reports for the United Nations

Schiel & Denver Book Publishers is a member of the United Nations Global Compact, and using print-on-demand helps us meet our environmental objectives for cleaner, greener standards in global business. Each year we present the UN with a special report called a Communication-in-progress which details Schiel & Denver's policy methods to meet UN guidelines.

If you'd like more information about Schiel & Denver's international printing process, please feel free to contact us. Thanks for taking the time to read this information.