How can I find out who ordered my book?

We are unable to provide any specific sales information as to which bookstore, retailer or library purchased the book(s). Christian Publishing House is a private, family-owned company and sales information for the retailer or library who purchased the book(s) is proprietary information and cannot be shared. In reality, we do not even have access to it. What we receive from the distributors is what country they were sold in and how many sales there were, as well as the total royalties we received.

When do I receive Compensation Payments for books sold through Ingram's Global Distribution Network?

The sale of the book is given to us by the printer and distributor 90 days from the end of the month in which the book was sold. You receive the payment the following month. In other words, when your book first starts making sales, you will not receive your first payment for four months. However, when you do receive it, it will be a monthly payment in an arrearage of four months. For example, if you sold books in January, February, March April, and May, you would receive January sales in May, February sales in June, March sales in July, April sales in August, and May sales in September. All payments are made through PayPal, so all authors must have a PayPal account. PayPal is the safest way to make online payments, and it is instantaneous.

How can my customers order my book?

Customers can order your book through physical bookstores, online retailer websites, and through the Christian Publishing House Bookstore. We usually mark the book down by about $2.00 on the CPH website. But if you are marketing and advertising your book on social media, direct traffic to Amazon. Why? (1) They are the world's biggest bookseller. (2) They are a trusted name, and they have superb return policy or money back if the book does not show up. (3) Customers will literally pay more for a book from a known source that gets a discount from a less-known source. (4) You receive more royalties from Amazon than any other store.

How does distribution work?

With Christian Publishing House’s Print on Demand service, books can be purchased through physical bookstores, libraries, and, retail outlets. They can be purchased from any major online bookstore. The order prints, ships, and arrives at the customer or store within a few days.

How do stores know about my book?

The printer and distributor send a metadata feed containing all the information and pricing for your book to more than 39,000 bookstores, libraries, and retail outlets all over the world. Ingram's customers and Print-On-Demand distribution channel partners will upload the metadata for your book to their website and will decide if they want to sell the book through their website. A store can search for your book on Christian Publishing House's website or other websites and see the metadata linked to it.

How long does it take for my book to appear on websites?

During the title setup process, once we click the enable button to add distribution services to your book, it can take 2-6 weeks before appearing on retailer websites or on a distributor or retailer’s internal ordering system. Generally speaking, it will become live as follows.

• The Amazon Kindle eBook will be live within 6-72 hours once we hit publish and the Google eBook with 6 hours, while the FaithLife eBook can take 2-3 weeks.

• The paperback will be live on Amazon first within 1-5 days once we hit publish.

• The paperback in all other stores can take 2-6 weeks to become live.

• The paperback in the computer system of physical bookstores can take 2-6 weeks but can go as much as 12 weeks.

How can I find out who ordered my book?

We are unable to provide any specific sales information as to which bookstore, retailer or library purchased the book(s). Christian Publishing House is a private, family-owned company, and sales information for the retailer or library who purchased the book(s) is proprietary information and cannot be shared. In reality, we do not even have access to it. What we receive from the distributors is what country they were sold in and how many sales there were, as well as the total royalties we received.

When do I receive Compensation Payments for books sold through Christian Publishing House?

The sale of the book is given to us by the printer and distributor 30 days from the end of the month in which the book was sold. You receive the payment the following month. In other words, when your book first starts making sales, you will not receive your first payment for four months. However, when you do receive it, it will be a monthly payment in an arrearage of two months. For example, if you sold books in January, you would receive January sales in March, February sales in April, March sales in May, April sales in June, and May sales in July. All payments are made through PayPal, so all authors must have a PayPal account. PayPal is the safest way to make online payments, and it is instantaneous.

How can my customers order my book?

Customers can order your book through physical bookstores, online retailer websites, and through the Christian Publishing House Bookstore. We usually set the price of your book at the recommended retail price on the CPH website. See the chart above. But if you are marketing and advertising your book on social media, direct traffic to Amazon. Why? (1) They are the world's biggest bookseller. (2) They are a trusted name, and they have a superb return policy or money back if the book does not show up. (3) Customers will literally pay more for a book from a known source that gets a discount from a less-known source. (4) You receive more royalties from Amazon than any other store.

How does distribution work?

With Christian Publishing House’s Print on-Demand service, books can be purchased through physical bookstores, libraries, and retail outlets. They can be placed from any major online bookstore. The order prints, ships, and arrives at the customer or store within a few days.

How do stores know about my book?

The printer and distributor send a metadata feed containing all the information and pricing for your book to more than 39,000 bookstores, libraries, and retail outlets all over the world. Ingram's customers and Print-On-Demand distribution channel partners will upload the metadata for your book to their website and will decide if they want to sell the book through their website. A store can search for your book on Christian Publishing House's website or other websites and see the metadata linked to it.

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Policy Regarding Pseudonyms and Pen Names
Please note that our publishing house requires all authors to publish and operate strictly under their legal names. Administratively, managing multiple identities for a single creator—such as a legal name for contracts, a pseudonym for publication, and a different name or email for financial accounts like PayPal—creates severe logistical, tracking, and accounting challenges. To maintain accurate record-keeping, ensure seamless and secure payouts, and keep communication efficient, we do not accept pseudonyms. All manuscripts, contracts, and financial profiles must match the author's legal identity.

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Our Global Publishing Advantage

When you publish with Christian Publishing House, your book is not limited to a single format or a single market. We publish with a global strategy from the beginning.

Your paperback, eBook, and audiobook are launched together with translations into five major international languages: Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese. We also continue working to make qualifying titles available in additional languages.

Traditional publishing can involve long delays between the release of a print book, an audiobook, and foreign-language editions. Christian Publishing House is structured differently. We develop these formats and translations as part of the publishing process so that your book can reach readers in multiple markets without waiting years for separate foreign-rights agreements.

Combined with worldwide distribution and our straightforward $1.05 flat payment per qualifying unit sold, this gives CPH authors a simple publishing model designed for broad international exposure.

What Christian Publishing House Provides

Your publishing package includes:

• Softcover/Paperback Edition

• Hardcover Edition

• eBook Edition

• Audiobook Edition

• Spanish Translation

• French Translation

• German Translation

• Italian Translation

• Portuguese Translation

• Additional Languages As They Become Available

• Custom-Designed Book Cover

• Professional Interior Book Formatting

• eBook Style Formatting

• ISBN Number

• Editing For Spelling, Grammar, And Syntax

• Distribution Through Major Online Book Retailers

• Availability To Brick-And-Mortar Bookstores Through Our Distribution Network

• Worldwide Distribution In More Than 70 Countries

• Marketing Through Christian Publishing House Blogs

• Social Media Marketing

Your audiobook is produced in the language of the original book. An English book receives an English audiobook, and a Spanish book receives a Spanish audiobook. Ordinarily, a male author receives a male narrator and a female author receives a female narrator unless the author requests otherwise.

Audiobook And International Editions Are Part Of The Publishing Package

One of the most significant advantages of publishing with Christian Publishing House is that the audiobook and five principal foreign-language editions are not treated as distant possibilities that may or may not happen years after publication.

They are part of our publishing program.

Your book can therefore enter the marketplace in paperback, eBook, audiobook, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese editions, giving the work a much broader potential readership from the beginning.

Additional languages may also be added as our international publishing program continues to expand.

Simple $1.05 Flat Payment Per Book Sold

Christian Publishing House distributes books internationally across print, eBook, audiobook, and translated editions. International publishing ordinarily involves changing printing costs, retailer discounts, currency exchange rates, taxes, and different distribution expenses from country to country.

Rather than requiring authors to calculate complicated percentages based on changing net receipts, Christian Publishing House pays the author a flat $1.05 for every qualifying unit sold, regardless of format or country of sale.

That means:

1 paperback sold = $1.05 to the author

1 eBook sold = $1.05 to the author

1 audiobook sold = $1.05 to the author

1 Spanish edition sold = $1.05 to the author

1 French edition sold = $1.05 to the author

The same flat payment applies to qualifying sales of the other editions covered by the publishing agreement.

There is no complicated percentage calculation for the author to follow. The payment remains $1.05 per qualifying unit sold.

Promotional copies, complimentary copies, and copies purchased directly by the author at the author's special discounted price do not generate the $1.05 payment.

Why We Use A Flat-Rate Payment

Many traditional publishing agreements calculate royalties using percentages that can change depending on the format, retailer, wholesale discount, territory, or amount actually received by the publisher.

Christian Publishing House uses a simpler model.

If a qualifying copy sells, the author's payment is $1.05.

This makes royalty accounting easier to understand and gives authors a predictable amount for each qualifying unit sold rather than requiring them to determine percentages from changing international revenues and production expenses.

An Example Using A $12.95 Paperback

Consider a paperback with a retail price of $12.95.

Under many traditional publishing arrangements, the author's actual payment can be considerably lower than the percentage printed in the contract because the royalty may be calculated after retailer or wholesale discounts.

Under the Christian Publishing House model:

Retail Price: $12.95

Author Payment: $1.05 Per Qualifying Copy Sold

The author does not have to calculate printing expenses, retailer discounts, international currency conversions, or distribution charges to determine the payment on that sale.

How We Handle Books With Different Page Counts

Printing a 120-page paperback obviously does not cost the same amount as printing a 650-page book. Larger books require more paper, longer production runs through printing equipment, and greater manufacturing and distribution costs.

Christian Publishing House handles those changing production costs by adjusting the book's retail price according to its size and production requirements.

A shorter book might begin around $12.95, while larger books may be priced at $14.95, $19.95, $24.95, $29.95, or more, depending on page count, trim size, printing requirements, and other production factors.

This allows Christian Publishing House to absorb variations in production expenses while maintaining the author's contractual $1.05 flat payment per qualifying unit sold.

The author therefore does not receive less simply because a book has a higher page count and is more expensive to manufacture.

Worldwide Book Distribution

Christian Publishing House makes its books available internationally through major online book retailers and worldwide distribution channels reaching more than 70 countries.

Books are also made available for ordering by participating brick-and-mortar bookstores through the distribution network. This is an important distinction: bookstore availability means retailers can order the book through established distribution channels; it does not mean that every physical bookstore will automatically keep copies on its shelves.

Our objective is to give every published title the broadest practical distribution footprint available to us.

Professional Editing And Book Production

Christian Publishing House handles the major production work required to transform an author's manuscript into a professionally published book.

This includes editing for spelling, grammar, and syntax, professional interior formatting, eBook formatting, cover design, ISBN assignment, and preparation of the various publication formats.

For Christian theological and biblical works, CPH also maintains its established conservative biblical publishing standards. Manuscripts must remain consistent with the doctrinal and interpretive standards required under the Christian Publishing House publishing agreement.

Marketing Your Book

Publication alone does not guarantee readers. Christian Publishing House therefore supports its titles through its existing publishing platforms.

Books may be promoted through Christian Publishing House blogs, articles, websites, and social-media channels, providing authors access to an established audience interested in conservative Christian books, Bible study, biblical apologetics, theology, Bible translation, Christian living, and related subjects.

Authors are also expected to participate reasonably in promoting their own books. Publishing works best when the publisher and author both actively introduce the book to potential readers.

Ghostwriting Services Are Also Available

Christian Publishing House can also provide professional ghostwriting services when an author has the knowledge, research, ideas, teaching material, or book concept but needs assistance transforming that material into a completed manuscript.

Ghostwriting involves a professional writer preparing the manuscript for the credited author. The credited author remains the named author of the finished work under the terms agreed upon for the project.

Because ghostwriting requires substantial additional writing and development work, ghostwriting is priced separately and is not included in the standard publishing package.

A Seven-Year Publishing Agreement

The standard Christian Publishing House publishing agreement runs for seven years.

During that period, Christian Publishing House holds the publishing and distribution rights specifically granted under the agreement so that it can produce, distribute, market, translate, and maintain the various editions of the book.

At the conclusion of the seven-year term, the author may renegotiate or conclude the publishing relationship according to the provisions of the publishing agreement.

The author continues to own the copyright to the work while granting Christian Publishing House the contractual publishing rights necessary to publish and distribute it.

One Book—Multiple Formats—Worldwide Reach

Publishing with Christian Publishing House is designed to move beyond the traditional concept of releasing one paperback and waiting to see what happens next.

Our publishing model is built around a broader objective:

Paperback. Hardcover. eBook. Audiobook. Five major foreign-language editions. Additional languages. Worldwide distribution. Professional production. Marketing support. One straightforward $1.05 author payment for every qualifying unit sold.

That is the Christian Publishing House approach to twenty-first-century Christian publishing.

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Conservative Biblical Views/Positions. The Author(s) fully agree with the conservative biblical views/positions that lie below. The author(s) fully understand that if ever they drop any one of those views, the Author and his or her work will immediately be dropped by CPH and have their books publishing and distribution rights returned. If any view/position is not understood, it will be explained to the Author.

The Author affirms, fully agrees, and accepts the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy (ICBI)[2]

The Author affirms, fully agrees, and accepts the full or absolute inerrancy of Scripture in the original languages.

The Author further affirms, fully agrees, and accepts that literal translation of Scripture is the Word of God to the extent that they faithfully represent the original.

The Author affirms, fully agrees and accepts that the Bible in the original languages is infallible, authoritative, authentic, accurate and true.

The Author affirms grammatico-historical interpretation (i.e., plain-normal interpretation/“when the plain sense of Scripture makes common sense seek no other sense”) as the position of the Protestant Church since the Reformation.

The Author rejects historical-critical interpretation developed in the rise of the Enlightenment that seeks to dismiss or denigrate the plain, normal meaning of Scripture or apply a meaning foreign or contrary to the literal sense (allowing for figures of speech).

The Author affirms, fully agrees, and accepts that the critical text of Westcott and Hort of 1881, the Nestle-Aland and the United Bible Society (WH NU) is the preferred and trusted text in Bible translation. If wants this to be explained, the publisher will do so.

The Author understands that the Textus Receptus (TR), i.e., the Received Text as corrupt and untrustworthy. If wants this to be explained, the publisher will do so.

 

[1] https://christianpublishers.org/book-submissions

[2] http://www.christianpublishers.org/chicago-statement-on-biblica