The Preservation Foundation E-Books

The Preservation Foundation was incorporated in 1976.  In 1997 we published our first story on our website.  Since then we've published more than 1,500.  

In 2001, we published our first paperback, A Curiosity of Cats.  Ten years later we published our first E-Book.  Actually, we published five - a series by 90-year-old Mary McIntosh entitled Mary's Diary, A Secret Journal of the 1930s.  The books cover the years 1935 - 1939, one volume for each year.  

You don't need a Kindle to read the E-Books.  You can download free apps from Amazon that will let you read them on computers, mobile phones of all types, or practically all other internet connected devices now available or to come.

In 2012 we added print-on-demand publishing of traditional books.  We have only just begun this program, but we currently have two available at Amazon.  Click here to see Jeremy of Kadesh by David Moore and here to see Much Have I Travell'd by Mary McIntosh.   You can also read sample chapters of these.

Why publish your manuscript as a traditional and/or E-Book?  Simple.  It will be sold by the world's largest bookseller - Amazon. Once published on their web site your book can be seen, bought, and read by almost anyone in the world on their computer, their mobile phone, or other internet connected device.  And you can be published soon, not years from now or never.

Do you need The Preservation Foundation as your publisher?  Couldn't you publish your own book?  The answer is yes and no. The programming for Kindle is a little daunting unless you are pretty good with computers.  I spend many weeks learning how to put Mary's books on Kindle before I was able to get a satisfactory layout completed.  It all took time and hard work.

After that I had to learn an entirely new process in order to convert the E-book files into files to be used for the production of the print-on-demand traditional books.

So, yes, you could do that for yourself and be your own publisher.  If you are familiar with HTML programming and have good computer skills then I'd say give it a try.

But if you don't have those skills or the time to acquire them then you will need a publisher.

So why choose us?  What makes us different?  

If you check the web for E-Book publishers you will find hundreds out there. Some are honest and charge a reasonable fee for their work. Most do a good job but be prepared to pay in advance for the time and expertise they give you. Others are just a new variety of Vanity Press that will promise the moon but deliver very little other than requests for money.  Don't get sucked in by empty promises.

We charge no fees for publishing your work.  We simply agree to accept a split of any royalties that may be earned.  The only up-front costs an author might have would be for an ISBN number ($125.00, but unnecessary in most cases) or any charges by a third party for copy editing or rewriting that the author can't or won't do for herself.  

Should you expect your book to earn lots of bucks?  Not unless you are willing to promote it or hire someone to do it for you.  No matter whether you publish it yourself or we do it for you, the promotion has to be done by you.  Maybe you'll get lucky and get a review that sparks great sales.  Or maybe we can convince a commercial publisher to take over the book.  It could happen.  But most books are going to have to depend on whatever help you can give them.  So sales may not be great.  Still, the satisfaction of having your hard work published and available for sale may be reward enough.  You'll have to decide that.

So we are willing to gamble that our time and expertise spent in making your book available to the world wide traditional and E-Book market will eventually pay off in royalties for us both.  We think some will do well and others may not.  If one doesn't then we are willing to take the loss.

Our fundamental reason for existing is to "preserve the extraordinary works of 'ordinary' people."

Nonfiction books, and especially biography and autobiography, are our primary focus.  Beyond that we will also publish a limited number of fiction books we judge to be outstanding.  We want to publish books that will help preserve for future readers the personal insights and wisdom of our fine family of writers. 

Now that I'm retired from my day job with Smith Barney I look forward to spending much of my time building a list of quality books for our traditional and E-Book line.  Maybe yours will be one of them. 

So if you have a book length manuscript that is ready for publication, write us.  Together we can decide if publication by The Preservation Foundation is a good fit for both of us.

Richard Loller
Nashville, Tennessee
March 15, 2012

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