Hybrid Publishing & Traditional Distribution
In A Nutshell
Hybrid publishing, as the name suggests, combines the best features of self-publishing with traditional distribution and sales representation. Unlike traditional publishing, where the publisher owns the rights and pays a royalty of between 10% and 20% to the author, in a hybrid model the author keeps the rights and receives royalties in excess of 50%.
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The price of this service depends on a variety of factors about your book including word count, number of illustrations included, level of formatting.
For an accurate quote for this service, please Contact Us and a Publishing Advisor will be happy to help. |
"Once again Rowanvale has come up trumps with my latest book, Darren's Dilemma. I have a few more in the pipeline and will be turning to Rowanvale again."
- John Davies, author of Captain Beany and the Meateorite, The Mystery of The Missing Vizsla and 12 other titles |
We are partnered with one of the UK’s leading book distributors as well as one of the top book sales agencies in UK and Europe. They lead a team of sales representatives to get books into key accounts such as Waterstones, Blackwells, WHSmiths and supermarkets.
We are also partnered with distributors and sales agencies globally, covering US & Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Asia, the Middle East, South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the West Indies. This means that your book can be supplied to and represented in over 100 countries.
Our first hybrid title is set to be published in January 2025 and has a global PR, promotion and media campaign set up to reach almost 10 million people.
Our hybrid publication model will follow a similar pattern to that of the phenomenally successful Fifty Shades of Grey series, which was initially self-published as an eBook before being taken on for traditional distribution and selling over 150 million copies. We will select titles that have been published under our imprint for hybrid publication, using criteria based on established track record of sales, commercial and literary potential of the book and also the motivation/attitude of the author.
With hybrid publishing, we ensure that you still keep creative control, intellectual property and full rights to the book, and the royalty share can be negotiated. This model also suits authors whose top priority is the quality of the book produced. This is because, via this model, considerably more options for print production are available than are offered via self-publishing models, which use print-on-demand technology.
We work with UK and global printing houses that service the likes of Pearson, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Scholastic, Walker Books, Oxford University Press and Bloomsbury Publishing. This means that your book can be printed by the exact same printers that the traditional publishing houses use! You will also have more scope for additional features not available via the print-on-demand method, including gold foiling, embossing and debossing, and more.
Depending on budget and level of commercial appeal, our hybrid model includes printing and warehousing of stock, sales representation for bricks-and-mortar stores (e.g. Waterstones in the UK, Barnes & Nobles in the US) and links with top PR companies for media and press coverage.
To discuss hybrid publishing more, please contact our Publishing Advisor Team.
We are also partnered with distributors and sales agencies globally, covering US & Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Asia, the Middle East, South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the West Indies. This means that your book can be supplied to and represented in over 100 countries.
Our first hybrid title is set to be published in January 2025 and has a global PR, promotion and media campaign set up to reach almost 10 million people.
Our hybrid publication model will follow a similar pattern to that of the phenomenally successful Fifty Shades of Grey series, which was initially self-published as an eBook before being taken on for traditional distribution and selling over 150 million copies. We will select titles that have been published under our imprint for hybrid publication, using criteria based on established track record of sales, commercial and literary potential of the book and also the motivation/attitude of the author.
With hybrid publishing, we ensure that you still keep creative control, intellectual property and full rights to the book, and the royalty share can be negotiated. This model also suits authors whose top priority is the quality of the book produced. This is because, via this model, considerably more options for print production are available than are offered via self-publishing models, which use print-on-demand technology.
We work with UK and global printing houses that service the likes of Pearson, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Scholastic, Walker Books, Oxford University Press and Bloomsbury Publishing. This means that your book can be printed by the exact same printers that the traditional publishing houses use! You will also have more scope for additional features not available via the print-on-demand method, including gold foiling, embossing and debossing, and more.
Depending on budget and level of commercial appeal, our hybrid model includes printing and warehousing of stock, sales representation for bricks-and-mortar stores (e.g. Waterstones in the UK, Barnes & Nobles in the US) and links with top PR companies for media and press coverage.
To discuss hybrid publishing more, please contact our Publishing Advisor Team.
Get In Touch
Learn more in our free publishing guide, which gives you a more detailed look at the process, or by speaking to one of our Publishing Advisors, who would be happy to walk you through all the details you need to begin the process.
“When I found Rowanvale, they seemed like the perfect publishing house for me and my books, almost like it was too good to be true! But they really are everything they say they are.” – D. Bishop |
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