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. Having your title represented by sales agencies to key retailers globally and printed, as well as using the same distributors and printers that service the likes of Penguin Random House etc, means that self-published authors can benefit (therefore compete!) by using the exact same process that the big traditional publishers use.
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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 |
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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.
We also work with various translators, therefore, if you are looking to target certain countries, you may wish to have your book translated into the native language.
You can opt either to use traditional print and distribution for physical retailers, whilst using print on demand to service sales via Amazon, or you can use traditional print and distribution to service both. This is because some countries sell a lot of books via Amazon and others do not use Amazon at all, so it depends on what you are looking to achieve.
Our first hybrid title is set to be published in March 2025 and has a global PR, promotion and media campaign set up to reach almost 10 million people and aims to be sold into over 100+ countries at its launch.
We ensure that you still keep creative control, intellectual property and full rights to the book. Royalties are 80% to the author for sales via the traditional print and distribution model (and 65% for sales via print on demand).
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.
We also work with various translators, therefore, if you are looking to target certain countries, you may wish to have your book translated into the native language.
You can opt either to use traditional print and distribution for physical retailers, whilst using print on demand to service sales via Amazon, or you can use traditional print and distribution to service both. This is because some countries sell a lot of books via Amazon and others do not use Amazon at all, so it depends on what you are looking to achieve.
Our first hybrid title is set to be published in March 2025 and has a global PR, promotion and media campaign set up to reach almost 10 million people and aims to be sold into over 100+ countries at its launch.
We ensure that you still keep creative control, intellectual property and full rights to the book. Royalties are 80% to the author for sales via the traditional print and distribution model (and 65% for sales via print on demand).
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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