Tools for Publishers

Key Links 

• Nominate a title for SPD's monthly SPD Handpicked
• Optimizing your Metadata: A Quick Guide
• Tips for Reading SPD's Sales & Royalty Reports
• SPD and Ebooks (FAQs)
• BISAC Code Primer
• PrePublication Timeline for Publicity 

SPD's Preferred Printers

These five printers are the ones most commonly used by SPD publishers. We recommend getting quotes and samples from them all and are happy to recommend them and/or talk about them. 

• Bookmobile
• Spencer Printing
• McNaughton & Gunn
• Publishers' Graphics

Additional Publisher Information from SPD

• Important Numbers!:  ISBNs, Books-in-Print, Bar Codes, Library of Congress
• Publisher Guide to Review Media
• Kevin Sampsell at the Center for Fiction on Starting a Micro-Press

Key Book Industry Sites for Publishers

• Publishers Weekly
• Bookwire

Key Service Organizations for Publishers

• Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP)
• Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA)
• Small Publishers, Artists & Writers Network (SPAWN)