RaasthalPublication

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Take one, take several, or take a package. Every price below is what you pay — there is no quote that arrives later with something added to it.

ISBN registration

₹399

The 13-digit number every retailer, library and distributor uses to identify your book.

An ISBN is how the book trade tells your book apart from every other book. Retailers order by it, libraries catalogue by it, and sales are reported against it.

Each format needs its own: a paperback, a hardback and an ebook of the same title are three ISBNs. We register yours and hand you the numbers with the title properly recorded against your name.

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Plagiarism check

₹499

Your manuscript checked against published work and the open web, with a similarity report.

We run the full manuscript and return a report showing anything that matches existing work, with the source alongside it.

Most matches turn out to be quotations, common phrases or your own earlier writing. The point is that you see them before a retailer, a reviewer or a reader does.

Proofreading

₹1,000per 10,000 words

The last pass before print. Errors, not opinions.

Spelling, grammar, punctuation, and consistency — that a character's name is spelled the same way on page 12 and page 200, that your chapter headings match, that nothing is doubled or dropped.

A proofreader does not rewrite your sentences. If you want someone to question how the book is built, that is development editing.

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Development editing

₹1,000per session

A working session on what the book is trying to do, and whether it is doing it.

Structure, pacing, character, argument. Whether the opening earns the reader's attention, whether the middle sags, whether the ending pays off what you set up.

This is a conversation, not a mark-up. You come away knowing what to change and why.

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Typesetting & formatting

₹1,000per 100 pages

Interior layout for print and digital — the part readers never notice unless it is wrong.

Margins, gutters, running heads, chapter openers, page numbers, and a type size that holds for three hundred pages without tiring the eye.

Special formatting — pull-quotes, verse, recipes, tables, anything that breaks the run of text — is quoted separately because the work varies so much by book.

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Cover & illustration design

₹2,0004 illustrations, 2 rounds

Four illustrations across two rounds of revision with you.

A cover has one job: make the right reader pick the book up. We design for the shelf it will sit on and the thumbnail it will be shrunk to.

Four illustrations, two rounds of changes, and print-ready files for every format you are producing.

Print services

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Paper, binding and finish — priced by specification.

Print pricing depends on page count, trim size, paper, binding and quantity, so there is no single number to publish.

The print page walks through the choices and what each one costs you.

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Marketing

Positioning, launch and campaigns — scoped to the book.

What a book needs to find readers varies so much by title that a price list would be dishonest. A children's book and a literary novel do not reach people the same way.

Tell us about the book and who you think it is for, and we will tell you what we would do and what it costs.

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