Step 1

We assign your book a worldwide ISBN number

When you publish with Schiel & Denver Book Publishers, you place your book in the world's largest and most comprehensive distribution channel available anywhere for independent authors today. Over 160,000 retail bookstores (including all the big stores like Amazon and Barnes & Noble) book wholesalers, library jobbers and college stores will be able to stock and sell your book. We assign your book a worldwide ISBN (International standard book number) and EAN barcode (see below).

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 provides you with a state-of-the-art printing network to meet orders from booksellers and wholesalers across North America and Canada. With our book publishing company, the whole process gets taken care of in-house, with U.S. book production technology, American staff and U.S. suppliers.

We never outsource overseas ensuring standards are kept high and our high quality printing methods produce books that look and feel great great, and exceed your expectations. Our books are equivalent in quality to traditional publishers' books selling in professional retail bookstores like Barnes & Noble and Borders. We guarantee you will be impressed with the quality. Our book publishing 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)

The technology we use matches economic supply with demand precisely, so each book is only printed after a new order is placed in a bookstore, which ensures that we don't over print thousands of books that end up being returned to the warehouse for pulping. Due to these environmentally friendly innovations, our book publishing company has been accepted as a member of the United Nations Global Compact.

Your book will never go out of print

For a low annual fee of $20 per year, you can maintain your book's production files in our printing servers across America and Europe. You therefore have control over how long you wish your book to stay in print and be orderable through our amazing distribution network. 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

Your book will go on sale at over 160,000+ online and traditional retail stores, in over 100 countries, across 4 continents. To ensure your book launch is highly organized, Schiel & Denver Book Publishers notifies all the bookstores in our international distribution network, at least one month before the publication launch date, that your book is coming onto the world market.

We send bookstores all the bibliographical and descriptive information about your book before it's published, which we then later market in our trade catalog, so booksellers have enough time and planning to integrate your book's launch into their busy retail pre-ordering systems. Self publishing companies fail time and time again in this important aspect, lacking the planning infrastructure and routinely underestimating the organizational importance of giving bookstores advance notice. With Schiel & Denver, stores will know all about your book before it's even published, and have all the advance details to order and sell copies - ensuring the launch goes without hitch.

Your book will be sold at leading bookstores across America and Canada, including to name a few:

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Books-a-million
• Target
• Borders, Inc
• Powells
• Chapters Indigo in Canada
• Waterstones & WHSmith in England
• and many more! Please browse 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 distributor in our international network, we route the order to our printing facility that is closest to them. 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 plane, road or rail.

For example, if a reader walks into a Barnes & Noble in New York or Chicago, the bookstore digitally sends the order to Schiel & Denver's Pennsylvania facility; orders from bookstores on the West coast usually go to our Tennessee printing facility; and orders in Europe to our British printing facilities. With 24 hour ordering capabilities, the bookstores receive your book order in the same amount of time, as if the book was stocked in their own warehouses; and the reader never knows the difference.

Better still for authors, our book publishing infrastructure means that you can reach a receptive new market of avid readers outside America, in Canada and Europe, with the same efficiency and speed as local book publishers in those countries.

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

Due to the speed and efficiency of our State-of-the-art facilities, books can be printed in quantities as small as a single copy or as many as as 1.1 million copies. Learn more about our printing quality control.

Open a new world of opportunities for your book

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

At Schiel & Denver, authors never worry about any of the shipping costs, taxes or packaging which get absorbed into our book production process. When your book is sold through an online store like Amazon.com, we ship the book to Amazon who then wrap it in their branded packaging - so the reader receives the book as though it has been sent from Amazon.

For orders to traditional bookstores, distributors and retailers, we bubble-wrap your book neatly in boxes and ship by UPS, USPS or FedEX with track and trace consignments from our PA and TN facilities, so distributors and wholesalers receive freshly printed copies in their warehouse on time, and your 50% royalty cut is not affected.

To supplement our book publishing infrastructure, 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 Shipping Methods & Costs.

Espresso Book Machine (EBM)

In 2009, Schiel & Denver partnered with On Demand Books, to make our authors work available through the Espresso 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.

Step 6

Author profits from every sale

With Schiel & Denver, you receive a 50% royalty on every copy sold through our network, which is one of the highest author royalties available in the book publishing services industry today. We provide you with outstanding book production services and the book publishing infrastructure to make a profit on every book sold. We have no interest in taking any rights to your work. You keep all the book publishing rights and copyright to your manuscript. There is also no obligation to buy copies of your book.

Schiel & Denver Book Publishing Company has brought about a fundamental shift in the way in which authors are bringing books to market and in turn, how booksellers in our network are selling them. Rather than having to estimate the demand for every title before it is printed, only when a book is sold, it is printed and shipped to the buyer. Our book publishing infrastructure is bringing books to bookshelves across America in a clean and environmentally friendly way.

Schiel & Denver's book publishing technology achieves some basic goals:

1. We enable American writers to reach new markets in Canada and Europe, and vice versa;
2. Our model drives more book sales for authors with a profit on each sale;
3. Our global infrastructure means that our authors don't need to worry about printing or warehousing fees - either in the U.S. or abroad;
4. We drastically reduce the number of unsold books that booksellers return to our warehouses;
5. Schiel & Denver Book Publishers is great for mass market bestsellers, but also works with obscure limited-interest titles that aren't usually stocked in bookstores;
6. Authors can quickly focus on making new editions of their work available in hardcover or foreign language editions
7. Our authors have the support of a professional publishing team with years of industry experience to guide them.

Step 7

An ethical dimension

Our book publishing company is happy because we reduce our carbon footprint to the minimum level, but at the same time ensure that our authors can compete with traditional book 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 book 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 is a member of the United Nations Global Compact

Schiel & Denver Book Publishers prepares annual written reports for the United Nations Global Compact, giving detailed case studies as to how our book publishing model is helping us meet our environmental objectives for cleaner, greener standards in global business. We are proud that our long term commitment to environmentally sound book publishing has been recognized by the UN. The company also plants 25 trees for every author we publish.