https://publishing.booklocker.com/
BookLocker is a slightly different type of publishing platform. You must submit your book for their approval. Your book may not be approved. They have a non-exclusive publishing contract with the author. They offer print on demand paperbacks, hardcover, children's books, and ebooks.
Cost: They have a list of services you purchase from $199 to $1350. They have service packages. There is a further fee for inclusion in the Ingram catalogue. Ebooks are listed at no additional charge. There is an annual fee ($18) to keep your book listed on their print-on-demand service and through Ingram.
There are fees to change and re-upload files. A 25% cancellation fee applies to all fees that were paid. However, if any file transmissions have occurred, or work has begun on your book or cover art, no refunds are permitted.
The expedited plan includes original paperback cover design and gets a book to market within 2 weeks of the author submitting their final file to them. You can request the hardcover add-on at a discount with the program but black-and-white-interior paperback is the only format eligible for the Expedited program.
Rights: BookLocker does not include copyright and library registration. They provide an ISBN and bar code or you can use your own in your print book. You retain all rights.
However, authors using the Payment Plan Program agree to only sell their book through BookLocker until their balance is repaid. Those authors can, of course, purchase print copies at their author discount, and re-sell those.
You can terminate your contract same-day by contacting them through your author account. Payment Plan authors need to reimburse their balance to the company before their book can be terminated. You own the rights to the production files.
Distribution: BookLocker's home page directs traffic to 30+ advertised titles. If you pay the fee, the book is submitted to Ingram. Print books are currently listed on Amazon, Barnes&Noble Press, Booksamillion online, Indigo, and many other smaller, online bookstores across the globe. Ebooks are on Amazon, Barnes&Noble, Apple, Kobo, Overdrive (which sells ebooks to more than 40K libraries and schools in 70 countries), and BookLocker.com. They do not have a physical store or reading app.
BookLocker offers a distribution database listing, custom cover, ISBN, set-up, and internal/external layout. They offer interior formatting and cover design.
Authors are responsible for promoting their own books. All authors are provided with a free copy of their how-to-market booklet. BookLocker does not offer promotional and marketing add-on services but they will happily advise authors on a one-to-one basis in these areas.
Payment: Only available to USA clients. Print Royalties are 35% of the list price for public sales of print books sold through BookLocker.com and15% of the list price for print books sold through other distributors/retailers/etc.
Ebooks earn 70% of the list price for ebooks priced $8.95 or higher and 50% of the list price for ebooks priced under $8.95. Third-party Ebook Royalties (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple and Kobo) are 65% of the net amount. BookLocker.com is paid for each ebook priced $10 or higher and 55% of the net amount. BookLocker.com is paid for each ebook priced under $10.They pay royalties on the fifth business day of the month to authors with an unpaid royalty balance of $40 or more on the last day of the previous month. You can access your account at any time. Their sales dashboard includes all sales for which they have been paid, BookLocker.com-direct sales are credited instantly, and a list of all payments made to the author within the last 24 months.
Next week we look at Blurb.
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