Types of Publishing Comparison
| Momosa Custom Publishing | Traditional Publishing | Self-Publishing |
Your Upfront Cost | All costs | $0 | All costs |
Advance | $0 | $0 to $5,000 approximately | $0 |
Profits (royalties) | 100 percent | 6 percent (Your agent retains 15% of all you make.) | 100 percent |
Your Time Cost | writing, reviewing | writing, reviewing | You do all of the work! |
Number of Books Published | Our team has worked on thousands of books. | Thousands to tens of thousands, depending on the publisher. | One! |
Approval Process | We will review your book and let you know our decision within a week. We publish around 50% of the books submitted to us. | It takes 3-4 months for most traditional publishers to review a proposal. Often they don’t send rejections. Only 1 percent of authors are offered a traditional publishing deal. | It could take you a year or more to learn enough about the publishing process to self-publish your book. |
Time to Create Your Book | We create your book from written manuscript to finished book in 6 to 9 months. | It could take years for a traditional publisher to complete your book. | It could take you a year or more to learn enough about the publishing process to self-publish your book. |
Time to Receive Profits | Your profits are paid to you every 30 days by direct deposit from Amazon.com and IngramSpark. | Traditional publishers pay at 90+ days. | It would depend on where and how you sell your book. |
Creative Control | You have complete creative control. | The publisher has “bought” your book and now has control. | You do all of the work, so you have control. |
Editorial team | We have a highly experienced, efficient, effective professional team. | It depends on the publisher. | You have to do it yourself. |
Design team | We have a highly experienced, efficient, effective professional team. | It depends on the publisher. | You have to do it yourself. |
Marketing team | We create Momosa Publishing tools, including bookmarks, flyers, postcards, review request insert, and calendars and connect you with our vetted Launch Partners. | It depends on the publisher— likely little to no marketing work will be done on your behalf. | You have to do it yourself. |
Cover | Our highly experienced cover designers will design a professional book cover. | Traditional publishers would design a professional cover. | Most self-published books lack a professionally designed cover. |
ISBN, Bar Code, Library of Congress, Copyright | We secure these critical publishing tools for your book. | Traditional publishers do this. | Most self-published authors do not do this. |
Amazon Review Coordinating | We monitor your book’s Amazon.com page, like and comment to reviews, and send them to you to like, comment to, and share with your network. | It’s unlikely the publisher would do this. | You have to do it yourself. |
HARO (Help a reporter out) | We read daily expert interview requests for HARO and send appropriate media leads to you. | It’s unlikely the publisher would do this. | You have to do it yourself. |
Library pitching | We pitch your book to our 20+ local libraries and to your own local libraries. | It’s unlikely the publisher would do this. | You have to do it yourself. |
Amazon.com posting | We post for you. | The publisher posts it. | You have to do it yourself. |
Review PDF creation | We create two PDFs of your book: one for you to share with stores, libraries, and the media and one for our foreign rights agent to share. | Unlikely the publisher would do this. | You have to do it yourself. |
eBook creation | Our eBook partner creates the files for you and posts them to amazon.com. We link it to your paperback on amazon.com. | The publisher might create these for you. | You have to do it yourself. |
Audiobook creation | Our audiobook partner produces the audiobook for your review, posts it, and helps to sell it. They split profits 50/50 with you. We link it to your paperback on amazon.com. | The publisher might create these for you. | You have to do it yourself. |
Foreign rights sales | Our foreign rights agent partner works to sell the rights to publish your book to other countries | It’s unlikely other publishers do this. | You have to do it yourself. |
Time spent with you | 6-9 months | 3 months | It could take years for you to complete your book yourself. |