Customizable Price Estimator
Calculate Your Cookbook Price and Potential Profit
Base prices are for a standard cookbook.
Standard Features
- Our full-color front cover design with your title, OR your full-color press-ready cover design with continuous bleed
- Front cover lamination
- Your choice of our standard dividers (7/set), OR your full-color press-ready divider design (7/set) with continuous bleed on 80# silk text stock
- Helpful cooking information on the back of each divider (black ink)
- Durable plastic comb OR coil binding (up to 202 TOTAL** pages for coil)
- Your personal pages with black and white photographs or sketches
- Table of Contents
- One of nine recipe formats (eight formats available in Recipes Continued or Recipes Not Continued layout)
- 60# white text paper
- Recipe Notes, Fillers, Icons, and
- Sub-categories
- Twelve pages of nutritional information
- Alphabetical or numerical recipe index
- Contributor Index
- Personalized Order Form
*A page is defined as one side of a sheet of paper.
**Includes personal pages, Table of Contents (2 pages), recipes, indices, Nutritional Information Pages (12 pages), Custom Order Form (2 pages), and dividers (2 pages per divider).
Upgrade Options
While our standard features are popular, the upgraded options listed below allow you to showcase your style, and the costs can be recouped with a higher selling price!
Covers
Bleed
20¢ per book (Image extends to/beyond edge of cover)
Custom Inside and Back Cover Ink Options
- Black ink only @ 15¢ per cover per book
- 4/Color Ink @ 25¢ per cover per book
Binding
Imprint on Plastic Comb Binding
- 100-299 books @ $2.05 per book
- 300-499 books @ 85¢ per book
- 500 + books @ 55¢ per book
Dividers
60# White Paper Stock
- Black Front/Black Back – (include additional dividers over 7 in total page count)
80# Satin Paper
- Color Front/Black Back @ 21¢ per divider per book (for additional dividers over 7)
All Dividers on White Cover Stock
- Color Front/Black Back @ 25¢ per divider per book
- Black Front/Black Back @ 20¢ per divider per book
All Dividers on Ivory Cover Stock
- Color Front/Black Back @ 50¢ per divider per book
- Black Front/Black Back @ 40¢ per divider per book
All Tabbed Dividers on White Cover Stock
- Color Front/Black Back @ 30¢ per divider per book
- Black Front/Black Back @ 25¢ per divider per book
All Tabbed Dividers on Ivory Cover Stock
- Color Front/Black Back @ 55¢ per divider per book
- Black Front/Black Back @ 50¢ per divider per book
Other
- Divider Backs in color @ 20¢ per divider per book
- Bleed at @ 25¢ per book (Image extends to/beyond edge of divider)
Inside Pages
- White Satin Text @ 25¢ per book
- Crème Paper @ 25¢ per book
- 4/Color Ink on Text or Recipe Pages @ 4¢ per page per book
Design
When Cookbook Publishers types or designs your book or any part of your book, Design Fees will apply:
- Scan, crop and place photos/images and add caption @ $7 per photo/image
- Ad Pages Press-Ready:
- Inside Pages @ 5¢ per page per book
- Cover Pages @ 5¢ per page plus cover ink charge
- Ad Pages We Design:
- Inside Pages @ $44 per page
- Cover Pages @ $44 per page plus ink charge
- Custom Personal Pages @ $22 per page
- Custom Divider Fronts or Backs @ $22 per divider
- Custom Recipe Page Fillers @ $22 per order
Other Costs
- Full Proof (all components, mailed or e-proof): $38 per order
- E-proof of non-recipe pages: $28 per order
- Second proof (recipes or full e-proofs): $28 per order
- Corrections to 1-color or 4-color pages: $5 to $11 per correction
- Corrections to press-ready books: $11 per page
- Sort recipes if not submitted per guidelines: $55+ (varies) per order
- Paste-up recipes if not submitted per guidelines: $110+ (varies) per order
- Unlock Cookbook Creator® account after submission: $33 per occurrence
- Late Submission: $11 per item (material submitted or changes requested after order is received)
- Rush Fee: 10% upcharge ($220 minimum)
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