Publish Your Book
eBook & Digital Publishing
Why the digital edition matters more here
A print run is a commitment. You pay for every copy before anyone has bought one, and the books sit somewhere until they sell. For a first-time author that is the point where a lot of good books stop.
A digital edition has none of that. One file serves one reader or ten thousand, in Serrekunda or in London, without a second print bill and without shipping. It does not replace print — plenty of readers still want the object, and we coordinate that too — but it means the book exists and can be read while you decide about print, rather than instead of it.
It also travels. A relative abroad can buy your book the day it is listed. That is a genuinely different reach from what a local print run alone can offer, and for many Gambian authors it is where the first readers actually come from.
What's included
What you get
A digital edition is not a PDF of the print file with a different name. It is built differently, because it is read differently.
EPUB, the format stores expect
The standard digital book format, accepted by the major stores and readable on almost any device or app.
Text that reflows
Your reader chooses the type size, not us. Headings, chapters and quotations keep their shape at any setting, on any screen width.
A cover that works small
A digital cover has to read as a thumbnail beside a hundred others. It is prepared separately from the print cover, at the sizes stores actually display.
Metadata done properly
Title, author, description, language, categories, ISBN where you have one. This is the part that decides whether anyone finds the book once it is listed.
A reading PDF as well
Fixed-page and sized for a phone rather than for A4 — for readers who want a file they can keep, and for anyone without a reading app.
Files that work offline
Once downloaded, a digital edition needs no connection and no data. On a Gambian mobile plan that is not a detail — it is the difference between a book being read and being abandoned.
What we need from you
- The manuscript
- In whatever state it is in. Word, PDF or a document link — we would rather see it as it is than wait for it to be tidy.
- A cover, or the go-ahead to design one
- If you already have artwork we will prepare it for digital. If you do not, cover design is a separate service on the same project.
- The book's details
- How you want your name to appear, a short description, and the categories a reader would look under. We can draft these with you.
- An ISBN, if you have one
- Not required to produce the files. It is required by some stores, and it is worth deciding early rather than after the edition is built.
What this service is not
We prepare the edition; we do not take ownership of your book. Sending us a manuscript gives LexoGraphix Plus no rights over it and you keep your copyright. Where you want the book listed on a particular store, we prepare files to that store's specification — whether we submit on your behalf or you keep the account in your own name is something we agree in writing before anything starts.
Cost depends on the length of the book and how much preparation the manuscript still needs — a clean, finished document is a different job from one that needs its structure rebuilt. Send it over and we'll quote against what is actually there. Typesetting & Book Design starts at GMD 2,500 and is often done on the same project.
Your story, our design
Ready to turn your manuscript into a book?
Send it over. We'll read it, tell you what it needs, and take it from there — no obligation.