Short-Run Digital Book Production Specialist Now Offers Design Services

Publishers of all sizes are invited to visit JEM Services for Publishers at the London Book Fair on 5th-7th March (stand J650) to find out how their short-run digital book production services can be tailored to meet their specific needs for on-demand, advance or proof copy books.

On-demand digital book production is a hot topic and printers from all over the UK are endeavoring to acquire a piece of the action. JEM Services for Publishers is one of the few specialist short-run digital book printers that cater to all sizes of companies within the publishing industry, from the very large to the very small. JEM’s one-stop-shop service provides an easy, low cost route to market for self-publishers and offers larger publishers the ability to produce high-quality proof and advance copy books for market research and review.

With the cost of digitally printing a book starting from under just two pounds, JEM has a wide variety of publishers, charities and personal individuals who all regularly use JEM’s services.

An example of a publication which has been made possible through JEM Services for Publishers includes the Times Trust Young Hearts book of poetry. This book, written by children with ME, is used in some schools to teach children about the importance of understanding this disease. The book is supported by Terry Waite, who wrote the forward based on the suffering experienced by children with this disease, and is now available in a selection of national school libraries. Without JEM’s short-run digital printing capability, these children may not have been able to express themselves through this beautiful and informative work. Another example of the fast growing use of digital printing is by publisher Dilute To Taste who produces books on Medway and Kent’s poetry and history and utilises JEM’s digital printing capabilities to allow their local authors and poets the opportunity to see their books in print despite being too specialist in their subject matter to warrant long litho print runs.

JEM offers a fully integrated, end to end service. JEM’s pre-print services include proofing, typesetting and cover design to enable smaller and self publishers to achieve a professional product. Once ready for print JEM will print and bind in house, with a turnaround time of 5-7 working days, often faster, by negotiation, if possible. Following the design, print and binding, publishers can use BookFile, JEM’s shared mailing service to libraries and library suppliers or Schoolbag, JEM’s shared mailing service to primary and secondary schools, to promote their books direct to key buying groups. Through their group 50-seat customer contact centre, JEM can handle the responses resulting from publishers promotional marketing campaigns as well as providing storage and fulfilment facilities to manage distribution of products or literature.
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