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About ArcheBooks Publishing
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Click this button for FREE eBooks ArcheBooks is the Registered Trademark of ArcheBooks Publishing Incorporated. All material on this website is Copyrighted by ArcheBooks Publishing Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. No portion of this website, any of its content, descriptions, graphics, logos, book samples, images, or any other content may be used without expressed written permission. First of all it's pronounced "Ar'-kah-books" as in "Archetype" or "Architect," not "Archie-books" (for you comic book fans) nor Arch eBooks, nor Arch Books. It's one compound word, not two. "Arche" is the Greek root for the word "First" as in First Editions, i.e. original works.
To truly understand what ArcheBooks is, it's also very important to understand specifically what we are NOT:
Our Hybrid Production Strategy For a Small, Independent Press to serve a global market, ArcheBooks Publishing employs both traditional high-volume offset printing as well as state-of-the art small-run digital Print-On-Demand printing (both of which are manufacturing methods, not business models). Offset printing is best suited for the high-demand periods of a book's lifecycle, and digital printing is best suited for low-demand periods, such as initial market introduction for a new author with no preexisting audience base, and later during the book's sunset period to keep it available and in-print long-term. Digital printing is also best suited for online consumer markets and foreign markets, which effectively eliminates the need to stock and manage inventories for those important market segments. "Hybrid Production" literally means two different manufacturing methodologies working in parallel employed to produce one title -- with identical results with respect to the finished product, same cover, same interior book block, same specifications for everything. This dual manufacturing approach is responsible for ArcheBooks Publishing enjoying a Return rate far below the appalling industry average of nearly 50%. That, combined with computerized drop-ship logistics from our multiple printer partners in the US and abroad, our own proprietary e-commerce system, this feature-rich website, and a host of other information technology innovations, are precisely why ArcheBooks Publishing has not only survived its first year in business (a noteworthy accomplishment for any start-up venture), but is thriving in a very competitive and mature industry. Candidly, the one downside to this production and distribution approach is more of a "cultural" issue rather than anything based on facts. Due to the proliferation of author-exploiting Vanity Presses exclusively employing Print-On-Demand printing technology (due its relatively low set-up costs and no need to invest in large inventories), their poor publication standards--stemming from lack of acquisition quality to lack of professional editing and book design, etc.--have sadly served to malign the production technology instead of the publishers who are the ones responsible for producing poor quality books. As a consequence, many booksellers have adopted internal policies to shun "POD" printed books across the board, regardless of their quality and the professionalism of their publishers. Exacerbating this issue is the fact that the major books distributors apparently lack a means to distinguish titles that are printed via more than one method. Thus, if a book is printed On-Demand at all, that's the way the book is classified in their databases, and thus negatively "tainted." It is our fervent hope that through proper education, this ignorance held by many in the retail bookseller community will abate over time. Think about it. In the final analysis, when either a bookseller or a consumer is holding a finished book in their hands, if that book has been published well and can be sold at a fair market price, what difference does it make which manufacturing technology was used to produce it?
All accepted and contracted manuscripts are published in cloth-bound Hardcover First Editions with full-color dust-jacket as well as in digital eBook format (Adobe Acrobat Reader, PDF). Publication will be inclusive of:
Hardcover First Editions will be featured on the ArcheBooks website, which can be purchased via our ArcheBooks Direct service, and are also linked directly to the corresponding purchase page at Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com for purchase and shipment. The Hardcover titles are available to bookstores, libraries, and other retail outlets via Ingram Books' or Baker & Taylor's wholesale databases/catalogues in the USA, or via Bertram's in the UK. Booksellers can also offer our Hardcover editions in their stores by ordering them directly from ArcheBooks via our Publisher Direct program. Upon manuscript acceptance a formal contract will be issued for signatures. All business activity will take place between ArcheBooks and the Author's designated Literary Agent of record, and not with the Author directly. All royalty payments will be made via Literary Agents only for distribution to their respective Authors. Royalty payments due the author are fixed at a flat fee of $2.00 per copy sold for small print run Hardcover production and eBooks, with an accelerated royalty schedule for hardcover titles printed in bulk offset print runs of greater than 1,000 copies. Literary Agent commissions are to be deducted by the Agency as appropriate to your clients from that amount. Royalty payments will be issued monthly for the previous month's actual reported sales. No fees of any kind will be charged to the authors or to the Literary Agency. Author Royalty Advances are per negotiated contract. For questions regarding ArcheBooks Publishing, please email publisher@archebooks.com.
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Mr.
Gelinas worked in the high-tech industry, specifically in Networking and Network
Security for over twenty (20) years. With an Applied Science Degree in
Electronic Systems Technology, he began his career in 1980 as a network
architect for the US Air Force, working his way up from the technical
Engineering and Consulting ranks, through many years of successful field sales
and marketing positions, ultimately to Executive Management roles, working for:
Motorola-Codex, Network Systems Corporation, Storage Technology, CyberSafe,
AXENT Technologies, SAIC-Global Integrity, CyberGuard Corporation, and iCrypt,
Inc. 
Co-Founder
of ArcheBooks Publishing, Ralph Wolf
has extensive
experience in marketing, sales and business development spanning over thirty
(30) years. He has held various senior management and executive positions in
Sales and Marketing, including Principal of his own consulting firm of RTJ &
ASSOCIATES, INC. Los Angeles, CA, and VP of Sales & Marketing for CKA Group,
Inc./Rollson Industry, Inc. His consulting company has provided marketing
services and business development planning services for various Internet
start-ups (B2B, ASP and IBSP space) and "E" businesses.
Sandy
Lender began writing stories as soon as she learned to string
words together on the page. As a child, she entertained the
folks in her great grandmother’s apartment building in Southern
Illinois with tales of squeaky spiders and mice picking berries,
and then won contests and awards with short stories and writing
projects as she moved through the elementary and high school
systems all over the St. Louis area.