Our initial, quoted pricing to you is based upon the assumption that what we're receiving is a clean, fully-edited manuscript—a final book, ready-to-go for formatting.  However, over the course of the years, we've found that fully 97.8% of our clients copy-edit after we've returned the eBook to them for review Now, some companies include a certain amount of editing "time" in their initial quotes—say, an hour or two.

We Don't Want Clients With Clean Files To Pay For Those Without Clean Files.

We don't believe that the clients who don't have 30 minutes of editing should be charged as if they do, so we charge our base price with the assumption that our clients will have 5 individual copy edits—and we include those 5 for free.  (A copy edit is a single edit—one typo, or adding a comma, not an entire revision pass).  When we say "copy-edit," we mean changes to the manuscript that were not in the book that we were given to convert, or, edits that have to be made because the manuscript was not cleaned properly by the publisher (for example, broken paragraphs from a scan or a conversion from PDF).  We are working in HTML, not Word or some other word-processing program, so copy-edits take far longer to do than they do in Word.

A single copyedit is any edit that can be completed in a single copy-paste operation, within a single paragraph. Whether it's one word, one sentence, or even the whole paragraph, if we can search for it, find it, and paste in the replacement text, in a single operation, that's one edit. We can't paste across paragraphs, so two paragraphs = two edits, and so on, if you change an entire page.  

We charge for copyedits after the first five.  What this means is that when it comes to edits, each client, essentially, sets the final price of their own book themselves, by how good a job they do with their manuscript clean-up, editing and proofing beforehand.  Revisions also affect turnaround time, obviously, as we have to make the edits and return a revised ePUB to you for review and approval.  So, just like pricing, you "set" the length of your turnaround time by how clean your manuscript is when you give it to us.

•Our first revision cycle pass is free, with no revision cycle fee, plus the cost of edits, at $1/1 edit or whatever our current fees are at the time.  

•A second revision cycle does incur a revision cycle fee (as of this writing, $25), plus $1/1edit.  

•A third revision cycle fee is $35.00, plus a $25.00 mobi rebuild fee.

•This is because MOBI files aren't like Word files—you can't open them, make a change, hit save and you're done. A MOBI file has to be built and tested at the KDP via a test upload. That means that each and every change to a MOBI, even a single edit, requires that rebuild and testing—at least 30 minutes' of time. We build in one rebuild, in our fees, but additional rebuilds incur the remake fee.  

PDF revision cycles are a bit simpler, in terms of the pricing—it's simply $45/hour.  

If you find mistakes, after we've done the eBooks for a Print on Demand pacakge—so you already have your "final" PDF, and we've now made the eBooks, revisions cost $35.00 plus the $45/hour for the edits to all three formats, PDF, ePUB and MOBI.  

The cleaner your file, the better the price and the faster the service.