We offer publishing house quality at freelancer prices.

Most book editing agencies and hybrid publishers are way too expensive. They charge twice as much as we do, sometimes $10,000 or more (yes, really) for one round of editing, and you can confirm that yourself by shopping around. Somebody has to pay for their overhead, their office space, their marketing budget, their HR department, and everything else—and that person is you.

Even most small editing agencies charge double the freelancer rate. Honestly, they’re worth it because their editors are among the best in the business, and writers know they can trust the quality of the work. But here at Ink Lab, you get the same level of quality without paying double. We’re lean and mean with virtually zero overhead, so there’s no reason to charge more for our services than we did when we were freelancers. In fact, we still use the Editorial Freelancers Association rate chart to determine our fees, which are as low as you can get without hiring random incompetents off the internet.

All services are customizable, and sometimes we can combine line editing and copyediting into a single editing pass to save you money. You don’t have to hire us to do everything, but we can be a one-stop shop if you want.

Editing

• Developmental editing of fiction: 4 cents per word
• Developmental editing of nonfiction: 5 cents per word
• Line editing of fiction: 4 cents per word
• Line editing of nonfiction: 5 cents per word
• Copyediting of fiction: 3 cents per word
• Copyediting of nonfiction: 4 cents per word
• Proofreading of nonfiction: 3 cents per word
• Proofreading of fiction: 2.5 cents per word
• Manuscript evaluation of nonfiction: 2.5 cents per word
• Manuscript evaluation of fiction: 2.5 cents per word

Paperback Cover Design, Ebook Cover Design, Paperback Interior Design, and Ebook Design: $1,500. This price is for a standard book that consists mostly or entirely of text. If your book requires a significant amount of layout (such as call-out boxes, charts, photos, and graphics), the work is more labor-intensive, and we’ll need to determine a custom price based on how much work you actually need. This is not an issue with the vast majority of books we publish.

Book Description (Blurb): $400. This is the written description that will appear on the back of the book and on your book’s online product page. 

Publishing at All Online Retailers: (Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple iBooks, Kobo, libraries, and more). Includes premier online bookstore placement with the correct category and keyword metadata. $250.

Amazon A+ Content: $500. This appears in the “From the Publisher” section on your book’s product page. You can add eye-catching imagery, customized text, and whatever else you can imagine.

Marketing: We can help you market your book on Amazon and Facebook.

• Amazon ads setup: One ad, one market (e.g. amazon.com, amazon.au, amazon.ca, etc.). $300 one-time setup fee. $100 for each additional market.
• Amazon ads monthly maintenance: Includes approximately two hours a month of ads maintenance, changing targets, adding or subtracting ads, adjusting budgets when needed, etc. Requires two months up front followed by a monthly subscription. $100 per month.
• Facebook ads premium campaign setup: Requires admin access to the Meta advertising platform. $500, plus another $500 in ad budget to click-test various ad designs to optimize your ads by determining what works and what doesn’t so your ads drive higher sales.
• Facebook ads monthly maintenance: Includes approximately two hours a month of ads maintenance, changing targets, adding or subtracting ads, adjusting budgets when needed, etc. Requires two months up front followed by a monthly subscription. $100 per month.