Red Paper Books

We sup­ply the same pro­fes­sional ser­vice to self-publishers that we do for pub­lish­ing com­pa­nies to help you in self pub­lish­ing a children’s book.
We use the lat­est pub­lish­ing soft­ware to design books, and can both source and com­mis­sion artists or pho­tog­ra­phers to illus­trate them. We send you pdf proofs at each stage of the design process. Finally, we pro­duce repro qual­ity PDF files for upload­ing to any of the usual self-publishing ser­vices. This means you can use the solu­tion of your choice with regards to the cost of edit­ing, print­ing and mar­ket­ing, with­out being lim­ited by their boil­er­plate design offer­ings. So if you have found a great deal at another site like selfpublishing.com, lulu, iUni­verse or book­sjust­books, etc, we slot right in to their require­ments for print-ready mate­r­ial to give your book a spe­cial look and appeal.

Because this is a cus­tom prod­uct the price and process involved depends some­what on the look and feel of the book itself. Our prices start where some off-the-shelf solu­tions leave off (£280/$399 gets you a basic children’s book design on lulu.com for up to 75 pages). We will agree a fee for each stage of the design process that is payable step-by-step via Pay­Pal. At any stage we will make avail­able to you our source files (usu­ally in Adobe InDe­sign for­mat), an exported text file con­tain­ing your lat­est edit of the text, and a pdf of the book. Because the artist or artists are a third party, their fees are payable in full in advance, but should you not be happy with their work an agreed rejec­tion fee will be given to them and the bal­ance returned or put towards an alternative.

Cover design is also a ser­vice we can sup­ply, option­ally using the same artist or pho­tog­ra­pher as with the pages of the book.

If you would like to enquire fur­ther about our bespoke design ser­vice you can use the mes­sag­ing bal­loon below. Please include a short syn­op­sis of the book, its prob­a­ble dimen­sions and page extent, as well as an indi­ca­tion of the tar­get age group.