Three publishers share their experiences of how using Publisher's Choice™ has helped their businesses

Salt Publishing, publishes award-winning poetry, fiction and literary criticism from around the world.

Chris Hamilton-Emery, Publishing Director, is completely sold on Publisher's Choice:

"Publisher's Choice lies just above the print on demand model. It looks at using digital printing to supply batches, with a carefully determined market operating from 100 to 750 units for mono printing, and built on rapid reprints, with a range of papers, including a decent bookwove, and a wide range of trim sizes. The hardbacks are a triumph. Quality is first rate for non-illustrated black and white books.

I think this is a fantastic model for frontlist development, and it can be dove-tailed into a print on demand service as a title ages, declines or changes trajectory in sales pattern.

Bluechrome is an independent publisher of poetry and literary or experimental fiction. They have developed a reputation for spotting interesting and unusual fiction alongside a growing list of high quality poetry.

"Since we moved our book production to Biddles and took advantage of Publisher’s Choice, we have been pleasantly surprised in many ways. We’d always used digital printing and so were well aware of the beneits of short runs, but the sheer quality and attention on to detail Biddles have brought to this arena totally surpasses anything we’ve seen before.

The ability to place orders on-line via Press2Book 24 hours a day is especially useful when you are a small business, and there are too many good things to mention, but the fact we can for the first time produce hardbacks, the online ordering and tracking system and the fact that Biddles staff have been never less than helpful and more importantly informed, has made a massive difference to our business.

Personally, I’d recommend Publisher’s Choice to anybody, apart from perhaps our competitors!”  Anthony Delgardo

Elastic Press is a small independent publishing house of short story collections

"I’m very happy to endorse Publisher’s Choice which we started using in 2006. Since we gained a distribution deal a few years ago we have been struggling to make money on our books that we sell through the bookstores because of the discounts that are required.

However, with Publisher’s Choice we have actually halved our printing costs which now means we profit on any of our titles, whether sold directly or through the stores. This has allowed us to consider expanding our operations, and the flexibility of the programme also means we can structure our orders according to pre-sales and reprint as and when necessary rather than incurring warehouse costs or having to pulp titles because we may have over-ordered. I can honestly state that without Biddles we might no longer be in business.” Andrew Hook