The restrictions of the current day physical book supply chain are well documented. In today's best-seller, frontlist driven culture we wanted to find a way to ensure that readers can discover previously published gems and explore extensive backlists which have become unavailable.
Our approach is simple. We offer a fair deal for a license to ebook and POD (Print On Demand) rights in an author's body of work. We have a standard agreement which is simply expressed. We take physical book copies (or a digital file if one is available), scan and OCR the text, typeset and convert to .EPUB 3.0 for ebook publication and into a digital file for POD printing. We create individualised jackets within the Bello imprint style. We manage storage and distribution of the ebook file and associated bibliographic data to all the established ebook channels through our third party digital storage and delivery system. We publicise through Colman Getty as well as developing social media and search marketing for each author.
Bello is managed by Fiction Publisher Jeremy Trevathan (
j.trevathan@macmillan.co.uk) and Digital Director Sara Lloyd (
s.lloyd@macmillan.co.uk). Please contact us if you are interested in partnering with us to make previously published authors available once more.