Coedition is an agreement between CBH Books and the writer. We take care of the reading, editing, correction, design, illustration, production, promotion, shipping and handling costs of the work. The author only provides part of the printing costs.

Coedition is NOT self-publishing. Books printed without editing can have typographical errors, inconsistent grammar, and style, not to mention no copyright protection or ISBN, and no backing from a publisher. Furthermore, printers do not always recommend the appropriate stock, weight, and binding for the genre, volume, and other characteristics of your particular book.

Coedition means that a publishing house publishes your book, lending the support of its prestige. Therefore, the publisher does not publish all books that are submitted for coedition, but selects only those with a level of quality that merits publication. Others are given recommendations for individual services if they have future possibilities, and those of poor quality are turned down.

The publisher does not assume all the risks of publication, but asks the author to cover part of the costs. You will keep the majority of the copies of your book, as well as receive 100 percent of the profit from the books you sell. Compare this to the 5 or 10 percent in royalties typically given by publishers who cover all costs. Read more about the advantages of this innovative method for which so many famous authors have opted.

The list of famous authors who have chosen coedition is quite long. Why did they do it? They wanted:

With good reason, Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, Alexander Pope, Stephen Crane, Lord Byron, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and many other writers, chose to publish their first books on their own.