May 9, 2008

 Publishing
 Services

We are unable to publish:

• Generally, manuscripts with fewer than 10,000 words or more than 300,000 words. Manuscripts with fewer than 10,000 words may be published in our Basic, Professional, and Custom services at the discretion of Xlibris.
• Manuscripts with more than 60 interior graphics
• Manuscripts that require color interior graphics
• Manuscripts with embedded images
• Scanned images of less than 300 dpi
• Manuscripts with more than 20 tables or charts
• Manuscripts written in foreign languages
• Manuscripts that employ True Type fonts
• Manuscripts with manual footnotes, manual headers/footers, or manual page numbering

Furthermore, we are unable to publish hate literature, books that are pornographic or nonsensical, or material that infringes upon another's legal rights. Please see our Author Agreement for details.

A Note About Interior Formatting: Manuscripts that require extensive text formatting stretch (and sometimes break) the boundaries of our interior templates, and therefore require extra work and quality assurance from our staff. These manuscripts can usually be published in the Custom Service, depending upon the type and extent of the formatting involved. Examples of extensive formatting include the use of subheads, screenplay format, end notes, repeated indented quotations, and so on. Occasionally Xlibris will need to evaluate your manuscript and recommend the Service level required to execute your manuscript.
Due to the formatting required:

• Plays, screenplays, and cookbooks cannot be published in Basic, and may be published in Professional or Custom at Xlibris' discretion.
• We cannot publish any manuscript that requires special, highly page-specific formatting such as columns, text boxes, or sidebars. Examples of these types of books include encyclopedias, dictionaries, how-to books, workbooks, etc.

We're always happy to learn about your needs and discuss possible solutions. If you have any questions about these requirements, please contact an Xlibris Associate toll-free at (888) 795-4274.