As a boutique publishing platform, we build a close, collaborative relationship with our authors. Within one month of signing the contract, we hold a project kickoff meeting that includes key members of your publishing team: a dedicated project manager (Founder, Hannah Huber), editor, designer, and other members from our A-team that are needed to make your project a success. Here, you’ll also receive your customized book launch time-line to keep you on track. Then, we hold a series of milestone meetings to discuss in detail everything from your manuscript structure, design, distribution, and marketing. In between, we’ll send you material to review and comment on and reminders. We invite your questions and feedback any time along the way.

Typically, your book will be published 6-12 months after you’ve completed the manuscript. If you need something done on a rush schedule, let us know when you write to us. We’ll see what we can do!

We take a hands-on, personalized approach. You’ll collaborate with several different team members, including your project manager, editor, proofreader, designer, and marketing lead. Your project manager will be your primary contact, but you’ll work closely with every member of your team over the course of the project. We scouted and put together an A-team of professional freelancers who are experts in their respective field. Founder Hannah Huber has built a trusting working relationship with each team member and therefore knows they will help you realize your best possible work.

We ensure that your book gets up onto major online retailers (such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bol.com) and is distributed by the world’s largest book distributor Ingram Spark. In the Netherlands, we also work with several independent physical bookstores in Amsterdam, Amstelveen, Breukelen, and Haarlem. We also work with ABC Cluster Uitgeverij for distribution through Centraal Boekhuis (for Belgian and the Netherlands). That way all bookstores in NL and Belgium can order your book and it will be shipped from CB. ABC Uitgeverij handles the administration. We can also help you produce an ebook version and/or audio version of your book and get it placed on the major ebook and audiobook platforms.

Yes. We believe wholeheartedly that our authors should retain ownership of their IP, and we don’t license your rights to the book. We are a service-based business. You retain creative control in our process and make all final publishing decisions, but with a team of experts guiding you. Everything we create belongs to you, and you’re free to use the book content in keynotes, online training, and any other form that will serve you and your business. This creates a dynamic in which we’re both your partner and a service provider whose mandate is to deliver excellent service to you and your readers. We do ask that you give credit where deserved. For example: author photo, cover design mention, book layout on actual material and on social channels.

We have a talented team of marketing professionals who can handle many different types of marketing campaigns, depending on your needs and what resources you already have in place. At a base level, we develop the marketing strategy and campaign timeline with you, and give you one-on-one guidance on everything from preorder campaigns to how to keep the momentum going post-launch. We can also run digital advertising campaigns, media campaigns, and social media campaigns; we can help with websites, social media banners, and postcards; promotional videos, book events, and podcast interviews. For each book we help bring out into the world, we like to do a podcast episode with the author that we share on the Amsterdam Academy Press website and social channels. Our goal is to get the word out about your work to as many people as possible! We’ll also advertise your book on our website and help you set up your own payment channels so that you get paid directly for books you sell.

We are not a publishing house that has licenses on books but rather a service-based self-publishing platform. We quote a fee for our services and invoice on deliverables over the course of our work together. You receive 90–100% of net receipts on book sales. It’s an entrepreneurial model in which you invest in your work—and if the book succeeds, you stand to earn much more on book sales than you would in most publishing scenarios.

We’re a boutique publishing company that doesn’t work from templates or try to fit our clients’ books into pre-existing formats. Everything we do is custom-made to meet your needs. As a result, the fees we charge to produce a book vary depending on factors like the book’s length, complexity, marketing needs, and timeline. We can send you a service list that outlines our range of services and fees.

If your project sounds like a fit for us, we’ll arrange a (free) intake call with our project manager and Founder Hannah Huber. This meeting is a chance for her to learn more about your book, and for you to learn more about how Amsterdam Academy Press works. During this call you can ask any questions you like.

Please be prepared to share the following during your intake call, as we’ll be interested in learning more about:

*Your book concept

*Your target audience

*Your background

*Why you’re writing the book (your goals)

*What publishing success will look like to you

If it seems like we’re the right fit, we’ll prepare a proposal outlining exactly how we can help you, including a breakdown of services and fees.

You don’t necessarily have to be a writer to have your work published. However, we do uphold a certain quality standard and therefore always need to review the material at hand and discuss the project before signing off. We will be displaying the finished product on our website as well as conducting author interviews. We need to believe in the final product as much as you do in order to make it a success.

Although we believe AI can be handy for many things, no, we do not publish books largely AI-generated.