Project Pricing Guide

Standard eBook Cover

Description: Uses stock photography with up to 3 hours of photo-manipulation. Uses standard fonts (no custom fonts) available from free-use font sites (such as fontfreak.com). No custom photography, no custom graphic design.
Includes: eBook cover in multiple sizes and output (JPEG, PNG) and also includes audiobook version of the ebook cover
Price: $150 (additional graphic design and custom artwork at $40 per hour)

Standard Print Book Cover

Description: Front cover, spine, and back cover. Uses stock photography with up to 3 hours of photo-manipulation. Uses standard fonts (no custom fonts) available from free-use font sites (such as fontfreak.com). No custom photography, no custom graphic design.
Includes: Print cover in multiple outputs (JPEG, PNG, PDF); eBook cover using same front cover artwork in multiple sizes and output (JPEG, PNG); and also includes audiobook version of the ebook cover
Price: $200 (additional graphic design and custom artwork at $40 per hour)

Standard Dust Jacket Cover

Description: Front cover, spine, back cover, and front and back inside flaps. Uses stock photography with up to 4 hours of photo-manipulation. Uses standard fonts (no custom fonts) available from free-use font sites (such as fontfreak.com). No custom photography, no custom graphic design.
Includes: Dust jacket cover in multiple outputs (JPEG, PNG, PDF); eBook cover using same front cover artwork in multiple sizes and output (JPEG, PNG); and also includes audiobook version of the ebook cover
Price: $250 (additional graphic design and custom artwork at $40 per hour)

Standard Tee Shirt Design

Description: Single sided tee shirt design, up to three colors, vector image. Up to three hours of vector graphics creation.
Includes: Printable file output in multiple formats (PNG, JPEG, and PDF)
Price: $120 (additional graphic design work at $40 per hour)

Book Layout and Design

Description: Interior layout and design for books. Uses standard fonts (no custom fonts) available from free-use font sites (such as fontfreak.com). Does not include custom illustrations for interior.
Includes: Printable file output in multiple formats (MOBI, EPUB, and PDF)
Price

    • eBook Only: number of words X $0.002
    • Print Book Only: number of words X $0.003
    • eBook and Print Book Only: number of words X 0.004 (will get two versions of the file, one for print and one for ebook)

Specialty Formatting: An additional $15/hour (custom fonts; extraneous uses of special character formatting, such as bold, italic; alternate font selections for special characters; adding in existing illustrations, etc.)

Note: number of words equals the number of words in the delivered manuscript (including chapter titles, chapter numbers, footnotes, etc.), plus the words in the front matter (dedications, author notes, tables of contents, etc.), and any back matter (biography, preview of next book, etc.).

Example: a 70,000 word manuscript, with 480 words in the front matter and 320 words in the back matter, would have a total word count of 70,800 words. If the customer is looking to have an eBook created, the standard format design and layout would cost 70,800 x $0.002 = $141.60. The same content would cost $212.40 for the print only layout (70,800 x $0.003). If the customer wanted both the eBook and Print layout combined, it would cost $283.20 (70,800 x $0.004).

Advanced Design Work

Advanced design work is for anything above and beyond the standard design options listed above, along with custom projects that fall outside the definition of the standard design packages.

  • Basic Research for Cover Elements: $15 per hour

Note: this includes any research the client hasn’t done but needs to be done for visual)

  • Stock Photography Research: $15 per hour
  • Idea Sketching: $20 per hour
  • Photo Manipulation: $40 per hour
  • Photography: $60 per hour
  • Photo Setup: $20 per hour
  • Prop Creation: $30 per hour (plus raw materials cost x 1.1)
  • Standard Text/Font Selection: $15 per hour
  • Custom Font Design: $40 per hour
  • Vector Graphic Design/Conversion: $15 per hour
  • Basic Layout: $15 per hour