DGC Press is not your typical publisher. Somewhere in the mostly uncharted realm amid conventional publishers and subsidy publishers, DGC is the “happy medium” between the harsh extremes of conventional and subsidy publishing.

What’s so harsh about the extremes?

A conventional publisher will evaluate your manuscript and decide whether or not to publish it, based largely upon its sales potential. But as almost any new author who’s traveled this road can tell you, it’s unbelievably difficult to be accepted by one of these publishers. Even good books routinely meet with rejection, not because they lack quality, but because the publisher doesn’t feel they would be easy to sell. It’s a sad but true fact, these days, that a conventional publisher will not promote any but the most popular authors. And the bookstore shelf-life of a mid-list book is typically no more than a few months.

A subsidy publisher, on the other hand, will publish anyone, no matter how good or bad the work, no matter how great or poor its sales potential. These companies make money from charging you for the costs of publication. They don’t make money (or much, anyway) from actual book sales. One of the biggest problems with this route is that of respectability. When anyone with a few hundred bucks can publish a book, a lot of really bad books get published. Almost no bookstore will carry something published in this fashion, and almost no authors published this way even recoup their investments.

Knowing this, some authors opt for traditional self-publishing. But publishing is a business, and most authors are in the business of writing. They haven’t the expertise to properly publish a book, the business savvy to market it, or the willingness to devote precious writing time to publishing and marketing.

Enter DGC Press. We’re like a conventional publisher in that we will not publish just anything. A book has to be good! Sales potential is secondary to the quality of the book itself. We will reject far more manuscripts than we accept. And we will publish only certain types of manuscripts. But unlike a conventional publisher, we’ll actually help you with the promotion of your titles.

The author, however, absorbs at least some of the costs of publication, as with a subsidy publisher. However, we think you’ll find that with DGC Press, you’ll get far more bang for your buck than with our competitors. And unlike a subsidy publisher, we’ll actually work with you on making your manuscript, and finished book, as good as it can be. Think of us as your partner, who will hold your hand through the maze of publishing, marketing, and everything you need to bring your work into the world.

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Interested?  Please go to our For Authors page.