Self-publishing
Australia.
Your book professionally published.
TRUSTED – AUSTRALIAN – QUALITY – PROFESSIONAL – PROVEN
Why publish with
Green Hill?
Green Hill Publishing has helped 1,000+ indie authors like you all over Australia achieve their publishing dreams.
Self-publishing your book In Australia can be easier than you might think. Tell us about your project and we will post you a copy of
The Little Book of Big Publishing Tips.
Make sure you get hold of our valuable help for authors. The Little Book of Big Publishing Tips will help you cut right to the chase by side-stepping all the hype and clutter.
This little book outlines the business and financial side of publishing, legal issues, design, editing, sales and marketing. There's even a section on how to identify a vanity-publishing scam.
Self-publishing your book In Australia can be easier than you might think. Tell us about your project and we will post you a copy of
The Little Book of Big Publishing Tips.
Make sure you get hold of our free help for authors. The Little Book of Big Publishing Tips will help you cut right to the chase by side-stepping all the hype and clutter.
This little book outlines the business and financial side of publishing, legal issues, design, editing, sales and marketing. There's even a section on how to identify a vanity-publishing scam.
Keepsake
- Suitable for the author that would like a straightforward, low-cost option to transform their manuscript into a beautiful keepsake or short-run of books for friends and family.
Professional
- Suitable for the author who knows just what they want and can market their book themselves.
Premium
- Suitable for the author that requires a market-ready book with online visibility. Our team of industry professionals will provide strategic advice for your book’s best chance at success.
Custom
- Our custom package is suitable for high-end illustrated productions such as cookbooks, artbooks, lifestyle and fashion books, and complex/illustrated reference books.
Do you have a quote from another publisher we can match?
Other Services
Childrens Books
- We have an extensive specialist childrens book service, including: Mentoring, design, print, and distribution.
- Get serious about childrens book publishing with mentoring by an award-winning successful childrens book professional.
Illustration
- If you need your childrens book illustrated you wil find our stable of talented and trusted illustrators. Simply choose an illustrator and we will help manage the process.
- Our illustrators and graphic designers can also help with imagery for all sorts of book genres, e.g. business books and academic works.
Editing
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- An edited book is a good book.
- When you start a project with Green Hill you are entitled to a complimentary assessment of your manuscript. One of our editors will read a portion of your book and provide a two-page assessment document showing how your book might be improved.
- Upon assessment you will receive a cost estimate for a full edit of your book.
Author Websites
- Price inclusive of design, set-up and first 6 months subscription fee
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- You can self-sell your book and avoid potential profits going direct to a retailer.
- Selling your book on Amazon is great but they will take a large slice of the potential profit. With your own shopping cart enabled website in addition to Amazon, you can reap the full rewards of your book.
Amazing Print Deals
Don't pay too much for print.
Green Hill has an unbeatable print solution on quality and price. You might have seen publishing companies offering crazy prices on production... but there's a catch... sky-high print prices.
This table details the printing prices for a standard size, 250 page paperback book, colour cover, mono interior, 200 copies. Please note the purpose of this table is to show relative prices and are not live or 'spot' prices at the time of viewing.
PRINT YOUR BOOK UP TO 25% CHEAPER
We offer great Print-on-Demand (POD), offset, digital toner and digital inkjet book printing solutions from an elite group of 'trade-only' book printers in Australia and Asia.
Frequently Asked Questions
For answers to the most important book publishing project questions please provide your details and we will send a free copy of The Little Book of Big Publishing Tips.
Are you based overseas?
No,
we are the Australian company.
We have a real office, a real design studio and a team of real book designers who work from the studio.
This is a question well asked because the last thing you need as an Australian author is to be trying to call Toronto at 12 noon Sydney time to discuss your book.
Many of the UK and North American companies do have a hole-in-the wall office in Sydney or Melbourne – but you won’t have any idea who your designer is. You’ll be speaking to an account manager/salesperson.
Do you help with marketing and sales?
Yes.
We are a full-service publisher and have capability in book distribution through retail outlets.
Online retail distribution is guaranteed but physical bookshop distribution depends on a wide variety of factors.
During the early stages of book production, we will assess its potential for traditional book shop distribution and provide strategic advice on how your book may achieve distribution through physical stores in Australia, New Zealand and internationally.
You don't seem to offer the range of services like overseas providers
No, we don’t.
We do everything that is critical to the success of your book, performing over 120 actions/tasks in making ready each title. There are simply too many of these to list.
But we don’t do the junk (and charge for it). This is because services like book stubs, book trailers, movie scripts, business cards and fake paid reviews are next to useless. Some of these can even have a negative impact not only on your hip pocket but on your reputation as an author. If you are enamored by the long lists of gimmicks offered by our UK, US and Canadian competitors (and you are prepared to pay their hefty price tag) then Green Hill is not the publishing option for you.
Having said that we can do anything if you ask for it.
We do offer professional digital marketing services, publicity, author websites, ebooks, audiobooks, illustration, book mentoring and distribution services.
And for the record, because we are committed to serving authors in any way, we can do book stubs and posters (if you really want)!
Do you take royalties from my sales?
No, Green Hill does not take royalties.
Unlike other publishing companies, Green Hill does not take a percentage of the sales made on your book. We are a fee-for-service business, so, once we receive the final payment for the production book, we transfer the control of the book distribution over to you and you can manage everything. By managing your own distribution, you cut out the middleman and reap more profit from each of your sales.
Who owns the rights to my book if I publish with Green Hill?
The answer to this is simple.
The author owns the rights to all of their own content right from the start.
Upon receipt of the final payment after the production process has been completed and your book is ready to be sent to the printers, Green Hill assigns the rights of the book design to you as well, but until this stage Green Hill owns the rights to the design. All of the written content and any images that our authors supply remains wholly theirs.
Are illustration and editing costs included in the publishing packages?
No, both illustration and editing are separate from the publishing package prices. Included in the packages is a complimentary editing assessment voucher and the brokering of illustration, but as Green Hill works with partnered editors and illustrators, each project is quoted individually by the partner and cannot be included in the packages.