Q 1. What is special about Pragya Matth Publications (PMP) and what are the advantages of Publishing with Pragya Matth?
Ans. Pragya Matth Publications is a publication house established by authors to save authors/poets/ intellectuals/ writers from exploitative regime of commercial publishers. The advantages of publishing a book with us are many and enumerated below:
- Books are published with minimum time lag: usual within a month.
- We produce books at the lowest cost and with the best quality (please see the book quality in the "Books" link or purchase our books to feel it).
- No extra charges for cover design and layout. Service charges (package) will depend on the quality of the script and choice of services of the author.
- We have various packages in our "Business Model" to suit needs of the authors.
- We are flexible in our approach and try to accommodate every possible aspirations and needs of the authors.
- We pay 50% of the “net profit” on the book to the author.
- We assist and advice in writing and managing the script- free of cost.
- We have “all authors only” professional group to supervise all the work of productions for quality of contents and layout.
- We assist in enhancing the quality of the script.
- We are easily available and approachable to the authors, for personal guidance/assistance.
- Located in NCR that gives added advantage of connectivity.
- We guide authors, free of cost, even if they don’t want to publish with us.
Q 2. How Pragya Matth Publications is different from other publishers?
Ans. We publish book at the lowest cost and give royalty at the highest, even up to 50% of the “net profit”. We market every books on world class book selling e-platforms like Amazon, flipkart etc besides on our own website and through a network of distributors. We have our own vast peer group of book lovers.
Q 3. How much it costs to publish a book through Pragya Matth Publications?
- What is the subject and content of the book? What all features/services an authors is looking for or willing to pay?
- We produce books at the lowest cost and with the best quality.
Q 4. What are “costs calculation factors” to “self-publish” a book through Pragya Matth Publications?
- Length of the book (how many words the script has or how many pages it will spread/take).
- The book will be only in black and white or colored.
- Number of colored photographs (cover page and last page are not counted, as these are always considered colored).
- Whether hard bound or paperback.
- Number of charts, maps, tables, photos etc are to be inserted within the script.
- Number of copies to be printed.
- Dimension of the book (length and width).
Q 5. What a book will be called if it has no colored photos except the cover page and last page?
Q 6. What is a “colored” book in your definition?
Q 7. How much it costs to publish a “black and white” book through Pragya Matth Publications?
Q 8. How much it costs to publish a “colored” book through Pragya Matth Publications?
- Up to 100 pages- ₹ 60/- for minimum 500 copies. Every increase in a block of 1 to 50 pages will add ₹ 20/- per block. So if the book has 150 pages it will cost ₹80 (60+20=80. Likewise, a book of up to 200 pages will cost ₹ 100/- (60+20+20=100) , a book of up to 250 page will cost ₹ 120 (60+20+20=20=120, a book of 300 pages will cost ₹ 140/- (60+20+20+20+20). (All cost calculation is approximate. It will ultimately depend on cost factors prevailing at the time of calculation)
- Books having less than 300 pages are not recommended for hard bound. However, it depends on the needs of the author. Even 150 pages book can be brought in hard bound. There are no restrictions or technical hurdles.
- Hard bound is likely to increase the cost by ₹ 50/- per book (copy). So a “black and white” book of 300 page that costs ₹140/- in paperback may cost; ₹140+50=190 in hardbound.
- Please note this is inclusive of cover page design, layout and all other charges except service charges mentioned in the package at "Business Model"
Ans. If it is a mixed book where most of the contents is black and white and some color photographs are to be placed at beginning or in the middle or at the end, the cost of per photograph will be added to the “black and white cost” @₹ 4/- (rupees four only) per print page (it may contain more than one photo). However, a full color book will cost ₹ 3.00 per page. So cost of a book with 300 colored pages will be ₹ 900/- per copy.
Q 9. Does number of copies printed at the beginning affect the cost of production of book?
Ans. Yes “
The cost of books comes down by 20% when a book is ordered for print in the increasing blocks of 500 copies. So if initial 500 copies of a particular book are costing ₹50,000/- (rupees fifty thousand only), if 1000 copies are ordered it will cost only ₹40,000/-. However, further increase in numbers of copies may not have the same proportion of decrease in the cost per book. It may wary based on various factors.
The difference comes due to offset and digital printing, depending of number of copies.
Q 10. What is the business model at Pragya Matth Publications?
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Publish and Self-distribution (a type of self-publication) : In this model we create the book after cover design, editing, proof reading, layout, ISBN etc. So we charge the cost of the book (as described in our "Business Model"). This is a holistic package that gives plethora of services (please see our "Business Model" for services in various packages) besides creating the book, including listing at Amazon, flipkart and our own website. The promotion, distribution and sale etc are done by the author himself. So all printed copies are handed over to the author. Our task ends there. However, in this model we will charge Rs 20,000/-as service charges as our fee. - Publish and sale: The books that we publish and sell through our website or ecommerce platforms like Amazon/flipkart etc the sale is calculated quarterly at the end of the quarter (Mar, June, Sep and Dec) and royalty paid within a week (first week of Apr, July, Oct and Jan).
Q 11. How authors are paid at Pragya Matth Publications on “author paid” published books?
Ans. The author is paid 50% of the “ net profit” on every book sale. The profit is calculated on the formula: Profit= MRP –(production cost of the book+ retail charges). For example. If a book has an MRP of ₹ 100/- and production cost is ₹30/- the profit calculation will be as follows:
100- (30+50)=20. So ₹ 20/- will be profit per book. The cost of distribution and retail is charged by various platforms/distributors @50% of the MRP.
So out of ₹20/-, the author will get 50% (₹ 10/-) and Pragya Matth Publications 50% (₹10/-) per book. However, ultimately the author will get ₹40 (10 royalty and 30 cost of the book he had already paid). So on every book sold the author will get ₹ 40/-.
Q 12. How authors are paid at Pragya Matth Publications if the book is accepted and published on the cost of the Publication house?
Q 13. How and who decides the MRP of the book?
Ans. MRP is decided keeping in mind many factors. It is a fine balance among factors of profit, cost of the book and making available the book to the reader at lowest possible price. Since, invariably distributors and retailers/ selling platforms charge more or less 50% of the MRP, the author and publishers are left with only 50% of the MRP. This includes cost of the book and profit. So, invariably, the MRP is kept at 3 to 4 times of the production cost of the book to make it economically viable.
For example if the cost of the book is ₹ 50/- the MRP has to be between ₹ 150-200 else the book will not be economically viable. How?
Now let us take example that the book has MRP of 150/- (thrice the cost of production). So ₹ 75/- (50%) will be taken away by the distributors and retailers. Out of remaining ₹ 75/- the cost will be deducted (75-50=25). So the author and the publishers are left with only ₹ 25/-. With our model of 50% profit going to the author, the author will get ₹ 12.50/- and the publisher only₹ 12.50/- per copy sold, which is very nominal to the both. Then there are other expenditures too like, cost of transportation, packing, handling etc. Marketing and advt also need some pumping of money for wider reach.
If the MRP is kept at ₹ 200/- the calculation will be like this: ₹100 to the retailers/distributors and ₹ 100/- with author and publisher. Out of this ₹ 50 is the cost of production, so only ₹ 50 is left. Out of this ₹ 25 (50%) will go to the author and 50% to the publisher.
In Pragya Matth Publications, the MRP is decided by the author in consultation with the publisher.
Q 14. What is ISBN and who obtains it?
Ans. ISBN (International Standard Book Number) is a unique and universal book number recognized all over the world that gives unique identity and reachability to the book. For all books published by us, under any model, Pragya Matth will obtained the ISBN free of cost. No cost is taken from the author. As per rules separate ISBN are required for paperback and hard bound of the same book. ISBN is given to the publishers by Raja Ram Mohun Roy National Book Agency (under the Union Govt’s ministry of HRD) New Delhi.
Q 15. How to reach out to the managers and head of editorial board/ CEO of the publication,s house?
- 1. info@pragyamatthpublications.com
- 2. pragyamatthp@gmail.com
- 3. tripathi.saras@gmail.com
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