From a single proof copy to a 20,000-run offset order, Oakbend Publishing handles typesetting, cover art, ISBN registration and distribution under one roof — so your manuscript arrives as a book worth keeping.
Get Quote Browse CatalogueTitles our readers keep coming back for — printed on FSC-certified stock and bound to last.
Four departments, one deadline. Take the whole pipeline or just the part you need.
Runs from 25 to 50,000 copies on uncoated, coated or cream book stock, with proof approval in 48 hours.
Perfect bound, sewn case, saddle stitch, spiral. Foil stamping, deboss, head & tail bands, ribbon markers.
Developmental editing, copyedit, proofread, interior typesetting and original cover art by our studio.
ISBN and barcode registration, metadata feeds, plus placement with Ingram, Amazon and independent stores.
Oakbend Publishing started in 1998 with one Heidelberg press and a stubborn idea: a small publisher should be able to make a beautiful book without a corporate budget. Twenty-seven years on, we still read every manuscript ourselves.
A short list, chosen slowly. Every one of them has an editor who answers the phone.
“We had been quoted six weeks by two other printers. Oakbend delivered 1,500 sewn-case copies in nineteen days and the colour on the jacket was dead-on to our proof.”
“I self-published my first two books and hated the process. This time an actual editor called me to argue about a chapter. That is worth the whole fee.”
“Our university department runs eight titles a year through Oakbend. Metadata goes out clean, distribution just works, and the royalty statements are actually readable.”
Notes on paper, process and the publishing trade.
Why the paper you pick changes how long a reader stays with a chapter — and what it does to your unit cost.
Thumbnails are the new storefront. Here is how our studio tests a jacket at 90 pixels wide before it goes to plate.
Net receipts, reserves against returns, and the three lines most first-time authors misread.
