Red Hill Digital offers a range of ebook services, from the conversion of your book into the leading ebook formats through to the distribution of ebooks into international online stores (including the Amazon Kindle Store, Sony Ebook Store, Scribd, Smashwords and many more).
We also have a New York office to manage rights on the other side of the Pacific and this also offers our clients taxation advantages over those who choose to conduct their business directly with North American etailers and distributors.
Kindle format, EPUB, Mobipocket, Adobe Digital Editions (PDF), we’re format agnostic – although we hope the industry settles on a standard post haste (EPUB anyone?).
If you own the electronic rights to your book and would like to make it available as an ebook, please give our digital team a call and we’ll chat through your requirements.
Conversion fees start at A$50 per hour with a ’standard’ trade paperback taking about 4-6 hours to process; most of that time is allocated to ensuring document formatting is retained in the conversion process. So as a guide, A$200-$300 can get you your very own digital edition.
However, if the book has a large number of images and/or unconventional interior design that you wish to maintain in the digital edition, the conversion process could take significantly longer and cost upward of A$1,000 per format.
We now outsource the conversion of digital editions. Our conversion rates range from A50 cents per page for 'standard' trade titles to A$1 per page for more complex works (those with multiple indents, various inline styles, mathematical/scientific formula, and so forth).
A note regarding conversion fees: each ebook format you choose requires its own conversion, so if you want to convert your book into epub, MobiPocket or Amazon’s proprietary AWZ format you will need to budget $50 per hour A50 cents to A$1 per page, per conversion.- How to open an ebook distribution account
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Opening an account with Red Hill Digital is a simple five step process:
- 1. Read the page 'Ebook distribution account fees and charges' to make sure you understand our fee structure.
- 2. Read and understand our Post-publication Distribution Agreement (PPDA).
- 3. Complete our online account application.
- 4. Pay the account application fee.
- 5. Send us your converted files, we'll invoice you per the formats you want to distribute and we'll get to work taking your ebook to the world.
That's all there is to it. If you have any queries please touch base using our online contact form and we'll be glad to help you out.
- Ebook distribution account fees and charges
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Account establishment fee1 $100
Per format placement fee2,3 $50
ISBN allocation4 $50
Distribution royalty5,6 20%
All fees and charges exclude 10% Goods and Services Tax (GST); applicable only to Australia-based businesses. All fees and charges are in Australian dollars (AUD).
1. The account establishment fee is a once only administration fee applied to setting up your account with Red Hill Digital. We do not charge annual account keeping fees.
2. We charge distribution fees on a per format basis rather than per store; given the vast number of online stores, we believe this to be the most economical solution for all parties. So by way of example: if you wanted to make your ebook available for sale in the Amazon Kindle Store (Amazon's AWZ format or MOBI), Sony ebookstore (EPUB) and on Scribd.com (PDF), you would pay a total of $150, being $50 per format. Those formats could also be distributed to the many other etailers and our account with Mobipocket reaches over 80 ebook stores, including Amazon.
3. If you request distribution services into an online store with which Red Hill Digital does not have an existing distribution agreement, we will subject such considerations to financial analysis and you may be required to pay additional fees.
4. If you do not already have an ISBN allocated to your digital editions (ebooks) you can use one of ours for a nominal fee. Otherwise, you are welcome to provide your own.
5. Per our Post-publication Distribution Agreement, you keep eighty (80) percent of net receipts received by us from our retail and distribution partners; we retain twenty (20) percent for the term of the license.
6. Net receipts vary as each store offers different deal structures. For example: Sony's Ebook Store offers a 50/50 split; Scribd.com an 80/20 split (author/store); Amazon a 35/65 split (author/store).
All fees, charges, third party royalty rates, terms and conditions are subject to change without notice except as otherwise stipulated in the PPDA. - Post-publication Distribution Agreement (PPDA)
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This is a 'plain English Agreement', which we hope makes your decision about working with Red Hill Digital relatively easy and inexpensive. But of course if you are unsure about any aspect of this Agreement you should seek independent advice.
- This Agreement is entered into between You, being the person whose name appears on the Post-publication Digital Distribution Account Application (“Account Application”), and Acute Communication Pty Limited t/as Red Hill Digital (“RHD”) and concerns your Account Application.
- You are located at the address nominated on the Account Application and RHD is located at 11 Barton Street, Bardon QLD 4065 Australia.
- You are a publisher, author or distributor of literary works and RHD is a distributor of literary works in electronic formats.
- You agree that You want RHD to distribute a digital version of Your book – let’s call it a Digital Edition – the title and ISBN of which You will include with any and all distribution ready files provided for the purposes of distribution.
- This agreement does not impose any other obligation upon RHD, its parent company or employees other than the distribution of Your Digital Edition per this Agreement.
- If this Digital Edition does not yet have an ISBN allocated, RHD will allocate one of its ISBNs at a cost of A$50.
- You agree that You own the rights to allow RHD to distribute this Digital Edition.
- If it transpires You don’t own the rights to allow RHD to distribute this Digital Edition, You agree to be held entirely liable for any breach of any other party’s rights and hold RHD immune from any prosecution.
- You grant RHD the right to exclusively distribute this Digital Edition (and only this Digital Edition) of Your book throughout the World for ten (10) years.
- RHD agrees that it does not have the rights to any other version of Your book, digital or otherwise.
- You are responsible for providing files compatible with the stores into which You want RHD to distribute Your Digital Edition.
- You keep all Your other rights – such as copyright – except for our right to distribute this Digital Edition.
- You agree to pay all fees associated with the distribution of this Digital Edition in advance of RHD distributing this Digital Edition, including the Account Application Fee.
- You will retain eighty (80) per cent of all monies received by RHD – more commonly known as ‘net receipts’.
- RHD will retain twenty (20) per cent of all monies it receives from its Retail and Distribution Partners.
- RHD will account to You every three (3) months – we call it an Accounting Period – showing for that period how many copies of this Digital Edition were sold and how much money You have earned.
- RHD will pay You no later than ninety (90) days after the end of each Accounting Period.
- If you are an Australian resident and do not provide an Australian Business Number (ABN) on the Application Form, RHD will withhold the legislated tax from any payments made to You.
- All monetary values in this Agreement exclude Goods and Services Tax (GST). Acute Communication Pty Limited as RHD's accounting entity is registered for GST and GST will be applied where required by law.
- Acute Communication Pty Limited t/as RHD reserves its right to transfer the rights herein to its North American trading entity Red Hill Publishing LLC, a Delaware LLC.
- You may terminate this Agreement by written notice if RHD fails to pay You as promised in point 16 and 17, or, if RHD fails to pay you the right amounts as promised in point 14.
- This Agreement shall automatically terminate in the event that Acute Communication Pty Limited becomes insolvent or bankrupt, at which time all rights in the Digital Edition will revert back to You.
- Even though this is a plain English Agreement, it is the entire Agreement.
- RHD reserves its right to change this Agreement without notice except for changes involving money – such as points 14, 15, 16 and 17 – where any such changes will be in writing.
- This Agreement is subject to the laws of the state of Queensland, Australia.
- By completing the Account Application you agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement.
- This Agreement is deemed executed upon the submission of your Account Application.
