Every service below is ordered separately and priced separately. Nothing is bundled in silently, and nothing happens to your manuscript that you did not ask for.
Devanagari, Roman and mixed-script setting, with proper handling of footnotes, endnotes, verse, tables, plates, glossaries, indexes and transliteration schemes. Academic apparatus set to academic conventions.
We work from Word, InDesign or clean PDF, and we fix the things that break in transit — broken conjuncts, dropped diacritics, tables that collapse.
Front, spine and back, designed to your brief, with the spine width calculated for the actual extent and paper stock rather than estimated. Barcode and ISBN placed correctly for retail scanning.
You see the direction at sketch stage, so disagreements happen before the artwork is finished.
A unique ISBN registered for every title and every edition, with correct bibliographic metadata so that libraries can catalogue the book and retailers can order it.
Paperback and hardbound, print-on-demand, no minimum quantity. Paper stock, trim size and binding chosen for the book rather than defaulted. Delivered to your address.
Conversion and listing on horizonbooks.asia at a price you set, with your written consent. Author's share is 70% of net receipts. Delisted within 48 working hours whenever you ask.
For institutions preserving traditional, archival or manuscript material: careful setting of older texts, plate reproduction, and editions built to be consulted rather than skimmed.
We don't touch an author's words on our own initiative. If you want editorial work, buy it — and if you don't, we set your text exactly as supplied, adjusting only what printing and file conversion technically require.
Editorial work is quoted per thousand words, and you see the scope in writing before it starts. For academic work we will tell you honestly which level a manuscript actually needs, including when the answer is "none of them".
| Proofreading | The final pass. Spelling, punctuation, typographic consistency, running heads, page references. No changes to your sentences. |
| Copy-editing | Grammar, syntax, consistency of terminology and transliteration, reference formatting, and flagging of anything unclear or contradictory. Your argument and voice stay yours. |
| Substantive editing | Structure, sequencing and clarity at the level of chapters and sections. Suggested rather than imposed — you accept or decline each change. |
| Content writing | Where you need material written rather than corrected — a foreword, a blurb, an institutional preface, catalogue copy. |
| Reference formatting | Bringing citations to a single style — APA, MLA, Chicago or your department's own sheet. |
| Indexing | A proper back-of-book index built from the final pages, not generated from a word list. |
Full volumes produced to a fixed seminar date, with ISBN, per-paper pagination, contributor certificates and institutional invoicing.
Multi-contributor books with a named editor, contributor consent forms circulated with your call for papers, and certificates issued on publication.
Ignited Minds journals — peer review with stated timelines, a named editorial contact, and reviewer comments passed on in full.
Textbooks, lab manuals, course readers and reference works produced for your own students, printed in the quantity a cohort actually needs.
Convocation souvenirs, departmental annuals, silver-jubilee volumes and institutional histories, produced to the same standard as our academic list.
Print runs for library accession, distribution to affiliated colleges, or supply against a purchase order, with GST documentation your accounts section will accept.
You get a single written quote broken down by line, so you can see what each part costs and remove anything you don't want.
The quote holds unless you change the brief. If something in your manuscript turns out to be more work than it looked — a hundred tables, an unexpected script — we come back to you before doing it, not after.
Send us the manuscript, or just the details: approximate word count, script, number of tables and images, formats wanted, and quantity.
We'll come back with an itemised quote and a schedule.
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Tell us about the book and we'll tell you what it actually requires — including the parts you can skip.
