Best Book Publishers York Near Me

4worldlovers: Welcome to Signature Book Representation (UK) Ltd, a leading sales agency for independent publishing. Our website offers information for publishers who wish to sell their books in the UK and Ireland and also for booksellers who would like to contact our sales team or order books.

Signature Book Representation (UK) Ltd is one of the UK’s leading sales agencies for independent publishing representing a diverse and exciting range of lists in the UK and Ireland.

Our very experienced sales force offers nationwide coverage, selling into Waterstones and independent bookshops; Gardners and other wholesalers; to the growing non-traditional market of online retailers; museums, art galleries and gift shops; and to library suppliers and academic booksellers.

4worldlovers:
Our extensive stock of antiquarian and second-hand books is housed over five floors of a Georgian town-house and covers most subject areas. Minster Gates formed the entrance to the medieval precinct of York Minster, and is a street which has been associated with books and bookselling since 1580 and was formerly known as Bookland Lane.

As general booksellers, we have also specialised in Children's and Illustrated books, Folklore and Arthurian literature for over twenty years and have issued substantial catalogues in these areas. Future catalogues will be included on this site.

4worldlovers:
15 Coney Street is the jewel in York's crown. A delight to visit for both locals and tourists in one of the country's most historically and culturally important cities.

Journey to the back of the shop and you'll discover a fun and buggy-friendly kids’ section complete with knowledgeable booksellers on-hand to help out, recommend books, and provide activities for little ones.

4worldlovers: We know how it is. It's been your dream for so long. It's kept you up late at night. Everything you have has gone into your manuscript, you want it to be perfect after all. Then you look for a publisher and its not what you expected...

Welcome to Echo Books. We are the first not-for-profit publisher for first time authors. Our commitment to you is simple. We offer you full control over your manuscript from beginning to end, no hidden charges, a quality final product with input into cover design and we give you 50% of all profits on your sales.

Publishing your pride and joy shouldn’t be so frustrating and confusing. There are so many options, yet with those options comes challenges. Hidden charges, standardised templates and low-budget cover art are just some of the many disappointments facing first-time authors.


We exist to help first time authors cut through all the noise and create a professional, high quality end product, a product that has the look and feel of something produced for a high-profile author by a major publisher.


If you choose Echo Books to publish your first work, we guarantee that you will hold complete control over your manuscript - we will never mandate that you change your pride and joy to suit our requirements.

We also guarantee that 50% of the profit on each book sold will go directly into your pocket. We issue annual statements, detailing what was sold, where and at what price. We detail our costs in fulfilling these orders and then we divide the profit remaining equally, 50/50.

We are the first not-for-profit publisher in existence specifically to help first time authors. We want to help you realise your dreams with our support and we want to make self-publishing as easy as possible for all those that choose to follow that path.

In order to keep your costs as low as possible, we offer a standard specification to all our authors. This is what you get:

Cover design: either original design or drawn from your own artwork;

Stock: 260gsm cover (either gloss or matt finish, laminating optional), 80/100gsm pages (depending on final spine width).

We are committed to ensuring that our authors are not faced with any hidden charges or extra bills to pay. This means that our upfront costs can seem higher than others:

Sales statement to be included with each payment detailing what was sold, at what price, at what cost and what profit is left to split.

When you self-publish, you are responsible for marketing your book. However, we make this easier for you by offering:

ISBN number (enabling your book to be sold by all major retailers);

Printing of your first editions (with 5 personal copies shipped to a UK mainland address);

"Working as a school teacher everyday and teaching children how to write stories gave me the inspiration to create my own story!"

"I usually write in my bedroom, so I’m surrounded by antiques and more books than I have room to keep"

"I don’t think I ever had a ‘Damascus‘ moment, or I might have been St John St Aubyn Shorthouse – publishers would have been queuing up to sign me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

One simple price plan that includes everything you need to publish your first book

(to work out the number of pages in your book once it has been typeset, divide your wordcount by 390)

A book such as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, that has 208 pages...

Would cost a one-off fee of £1029 to self-publish with Echo Books.

A book such as Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone by J.K Rowling, that has 352 pages...

Would cost a one-off fee of £1569 to self-publish with Echo Books.

A book such as Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, that has 560 pages...

Would cost a one-off fee of £2349 to self-publish with Echo Books.