| Book publishing services are usually just | | | | iUniverse Inc. and Xlibris offer specialized services |
| self-publishing companies that do the legwork for | | | | at every stage of book publishing like researching |
| a fee. But in a nutshell, the publishing industry | | | | topics and assisting authors. They also offer |
| includes the development, marketing, production | | | | editing services, designing the layout, artwork and |
| and distribution of news and non-fiction magazines | | | | photography, cover layout, bar coding and the |
| and books, literary works and other works dealing | | | | final printing and distribution of books. Each service |
| with dissemination of information. Although | | | | has a fee and can be customized according to the |
| newspaper and magazine companies often own | | | | client's need. |
| printing presses and binderies, most of the book | | | | A number of publishing service companies offer |
| publishing companies outsource the production and | | | | counseling services to help self-publishers. They |
| development work to smaller companies and only | | | | include theme planning, book formatting, business |
| control the advertising and marketing tasks. Some | | | | plan advice and copyright information. Other |
| of the publishing companies sub-contract the | | | | specialized services include manuscript evaluation |
| editorial work as well. These companies offering | | | | and critiquing, as well as suggestions as to how to |
| specialized book publishing services are also an | | | | develop the manuscript and make it "saleable" in |
| integral part of the ever-growing publishing | | | | the market. The publishing services also include |
| industry in the US. | | | | ISBN acquisition and CIP data acquisition that are |
| Some of the book publishing services companies | | | | mainly used to assign a unique number to the |
| like Cader Books, Benchmark Productions, | | | | published books and to help catalog the books. |