https://publishing.co.uk/tags/self-publishing-uk/Recent content in Self Publishing Uk on publishing.co.uk — Professional KDP Book FormattingHugoen-gbWed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://publishing.co.uk/guides/best-self-publishing-companies-uk/Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://publishing.co.uk/guides/best-self-publishing-companies-uk/<p><strong>Short answer:</strong> there is no single best UK self-publishing company, because they sell completely different things. Start with the type:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Free platforms:</strong> Amazon KDP, IngramSpark and Lulu. They cost nothing and pay you the most per sale, but you do the work or hire it yourself.</li> <li><strong>Marketplaces:</strong> Reedsy finds you freelancers and takes a fee.</li> <li><strong>Per-service firms:</strong> Matador, UK Book Publishing, Publishing Push, Whitefox and publishing.co.uk. You pay for the jobs you choose.</li> <li><strong>Package firms:</strong> PublishNation (from £215), Grosvenor House (from £795) and SilverWood (from £3,197 plus VAT) sell a bundle.</li> <li><strong>Contributory &ldquo;hybrid&rdquo; publishers:</strong> Austin Macauley and Olympia ask you to pay towards publication and keep part of your royalty.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Disclosure:</strong> we are one of the per-service firms on this list. So we haven&rsquo;t ranked anyone &ldquo;number one&rdquo;. Every figure below was read from each company&rsquo;s own website on 30 September 2026, and the sources are at the end, so you can check them.</p>https://publishing.co.uk/guides/self-publishing-costs-uk/Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://publishing.co.uk/guides/self-publishing-costs-uk/<p><strong>Short answer:</strong> publishing on Amazon KDP is free. What costs money is the help you buy. For an <strong>80,000-word novel</strong>:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Everything yourself:</strong> about <strong>£4</strong>, the price of one proof copy, plus delivery.</li> <li><strong>The usual first book</strong> (a proofread, a professional cover, professional formatting): about <strong>£800 to £1,300</strong>.</li> <li><strong>Full professional production</strong> (developmental edit, copyedit, proofread, cover and typesetting at freelance-marketplace averages): about <strong>£6,400</strong>.</li> <li><strong>A UK publishing company</strong> covering some of the same work: <strong>£215 to over £3,000</strong> (compared in <a href="https://publishing.co.uk/guides/best-self-publishing-companies-uk/">the best self-publishing companies in the UK</a>).</li> </ul> <p>Use the calculator for your own book. Every price in it is a published price with a date, and ours come from the same list as our order page.</p>