On this page we answer this and many other questions about book publishing, and essentially the differences between commercial and self-publishing. Zaccmedia aims to provide for authors a balance between these two types of publishing, to maximise their book’s potential. Read on for further explanation.

What is Bridge Publishing?

Commercial standard self-publishing for independent authors
We welcome all manuscript submissions with a Christian ethic
Distribution to retail outlets around the world
Flexible non-exclusive contract for authors
Zaccmedia bridges that gap between commercial rejection and self-publishing fear or hassle.


Who we are
Is Zaccmedia a Self-Publisher?
The answer to this question is yes and no. Zaccmedia is a bridge between commercial publishing and self-publishing. Hence our term “bridge publishing”.
Our goal is to try and give all our authors a commercial experience with their books, working hard to get them recognised and seen both by the commercial book trade and the end user/buyer. For many authors, it is impossible to secure a commercial contract with a mainstream publisher, but they are also wary or intimidated by the complexity of self-publishing and worry if their book will be of sufficient quality and be available to shops. Many times, authors will create outstanding work, but their working niche means it has little commercial appeal. Yet, the author feels compelled for the world to see it – whether it’s a life call, a passionate dream or a compulsion to communicate a message the world needs to hear. Zaccmedia aims to fulfil that purpose.
It may just be a very niche work of information that a small group of enthusiasts would love to have access to, and a publisher is needed to make the book a reality and available. Zaccmedia bridges that gap between commercial rejection and self-publishing fear or hassle. Just because a commercial publisher has rejected a work, it doesn’t mean it should not be published. Far from it.
There is a self-publishing element to what we do, in so much as we try to give the author as much flexibility as possible as to how their book is created. Zaccmedia offers the author choices throughout the process of publishing, but will equally make those choices as best as possible for the author, based on our experience, if the author wants a trouble free process. The financial investment is also made by the author, as seen in our excellent package prices. Our package prices are very reasonable, based on our high quality services. As a publisher of the book, we take a small percentage of each sale, with the author taking the greater percentage of the sale. This means both parties have vested interests in the wide and successful sale of the product, motivating the book’s promotion and sale. In that sense, Zaccmedia and the author have a commercial working partnership. Zaccmedia can be regarded as a bridge publisher, rather than merely a self-publisher. You get the best of both worlds.

We welcome all submissions, from amateur authors that wish to publish a family memoir to more experienced authors hoping for commercial success.


How we work
Does Zaccmedia publish anything?
We welcome all submissions, from amateur authors that wish to publish a family memoir to more experienced authors hoping for commercial success. We service both. Like a commercial publisher, Zaccmedia does have a process of selection over what books it chooses to publish. Based on Christian values, Zaccmedia will only publish materials that do not compromise our morality, convictions and creed. We also want to ensure that the book is publishable and for its niche market, has sufficient depth and potential to generate sales. Zaccmedia reserves the right to turn down proposed books. To this end, we have commercial and moral standards that should encourage all our authors who come on board with us.
About Distribution
About Zaccmedia Publishing
Book publishing services have improved dramatically over recent years with technology enabling high quality digital printing comparable to traditional offset print quality. With these print technologies combined with traditional publishing services, such as editing, typesetting and cover design, the modern author has a solid platform for producing his/her own book at economic prices. Economic, because digital print-on-demand enables the author to buy as many or as few books as required, without having to commit finance to long print runs of a 1000 or more books.
Zaccmedia provides distribution as part of the publishing package, meaning your book can be ordered from over 30,000 retail outlets around the world, via Ingram, one of the world’s largest book distributors. Ingram also own the print presses we use, meaning there is superb integration when printing to meet the demand of the distribution channel. Your book never, technically, ever goes out of stock. If it has been ordered at a retail outlet, it will be printed and sent out straight away.
Distribution channels do not equate to sales. It is essential that you understand that distribution channels are tools in your hand. It is up to the author to market and publicise the book to generate interest. The distribution channels are there to ensure the book is available, whenever it is ordered. Sales won’t happen by magic. But having a distribution channel is a major part of successful publishing and will get you on to Amazon. We do provide some marketing tools to help get news of your book out, and can be found in our Z-Launch Marketing Package.



Your book can be ordered from over 30,000 retail outlets around the world, via Ingram, one of the world’s largest book distributors.
professional ebooks
Kindle eBook Conversion and Amazon Distribution
We include professional eBook conversion as part of our Print & eBook Distribution Package, publishing to Amazon’s Kindle platform. We no longer sell or distribute eBooks to other platforms. To date, Amazon accounts for over 70% of the eBook marketplace, with remaining sales very thinly spread over a wide variety of other platforms at a cost that is no longer sustainable as an eBook distribution model. Kindle represents your best opportunity for eBook sales. However, we do offer the possibility of selling “open” ePub eBooks via our Bookstore. By open, we mean it is possible to sell eBooks from Zaccmedia’s store as a download, but they won’t be encrypted with anti-copy software. If that doesn’t concern you (and to many, it doesn’t), then we can make an eBook available for download to anyone’s device. If you would like this additional option, please contact us.

Zaccmedia is positioned between commercial publishing and self-publishing.
Other reasons authors self/bridge publish
Control
Some authors like to be in total control and hold exclusively on to the rights of their own material, giving them total freedom in how, where and when their book is published. The internet has made mass self-promotion a possibility, and the potential for generating sales without any restrictions as to how and where to make those sales is appealing.
Commercial alternative
An author has tried to secure a commercial contract with a mainstream trade publisher, but has thus far been unsuccessful. The author believes in his/her book and just wants to get that story, message or fact across to the world. The author needs help with the nuts and bolts of putting a well presented book together and would love for it to be available through bookshops and Amazon.
