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Custom Books and other course materials

XanEdu can help you design the perfect solution to fit your course. You’ll no longer be tied to nationally-published resources that don’t match your objectives. In addition to your own materials, your custom book or lab manual can include reprinted materials from a variety of sources – articles from professional journals, popular magazines, as well as excerpts and illustrations from books or other documents.

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XanEdu’s editorial team can help you turn this material into an affordable custom title. Whatever your custom book requirements, we provide editorial and production services to ensure the finished project meets your needs.

Editorial services available:

  • Copyright research, clearance and royalty payment management
  • Content development and research
  • Custom cover design
  • Pagination, typesetting, table of contents, title page, and acknowledgements
  • ISBN assignment
  • Formatting and proofreading all original and reprinted material
  • OCR scanning
  • Printing and binding

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Make Your Book an e-Book

75% of students prefer print plus digital course materials. Deliver your custom textbook on the award-winning myXanEdu digital platform. Students can highlight, take notes, collaborate with peers and instructors, and can take their book along with them wherever they go.


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Considering Custom? Now is the time to start Fall '23 projects

Custom publishing offers many benefits: tailor materials to your syllabus, pass on, cost savings for students, incorporate unique elements from your campus and more.
As the publishing market continues to change, XanEdu offers faculty members full publishing benefits without any out-of-pocket costs to you. As a full-service publisher, XanEdu differs from self-publishing sites in many ways. Most importantly, we care about you as the author, and you always maintain your copyrights!

We have been in the higher education publishing market since 1999 and we publish great quality books at the lowest prices, all while stocking inventory and marketing across campus bookstores and faculty, social media, and Amazon.

If you are interested in a conversation or pricing for your particular book, please complete the form on this page, or call us: (800) 218-5971 ext. 8000.

We love helping authors. How can we help you?

What XanEdu offers Faculty Authors:

  • Competitive pricing
  • Print and digital formats
  • Full formatting
  • Editing
  • Full color cover design
  • Visuals/graphics/art research
  • Desk copy distribution
  • Inventory storage and management
  • Payment of royalties
  • Adoption lists
  • e-Commerce sales
  • Sales on Amazon
  • You maintain your copyrights
  • We print inventory - we do not ‘print-on-demand’

XanEdu Added Benefits to Increase Sales:

  • National marketing
  • Do-It-Yourself database
  • National sales team
  • Strong relationships with campus bookstores across the country
  • Individual book product pages on our highly-visited website
  • As the author, you always maintain your copyrights

Author Benefits:

  • You have full control through both the process and the final product
  • You control revision cycles
  • You maintain your rights to your content at all times

$500 Author Referral Program

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Refer a new author, get $500!*

You know the value of custom publishing and the ease of working with XanEdu – share your experiences through our author referral program. If they publish with us, you will receive a $500 referral bonus as our thank you!

Author Referral Program Steps:

  1. Tell your colleagues about XanEdu, (don’t forget that our authors always maintain their copyrights and right to publish!)
  2. Complete this referral submission form, or get in touch with us using the form top/right on this webpage.
  3. We will contact your referral and assess their needs to confirm XanEdu Custom Publishing is the best fit for their project.
  4. Once we publish their custom book, we will send you a $500 referral bonus ^

Necessary disclaimers:

* Payable when referred colleague’s book is published

^ Referral bonus eligible for each referred project that is published


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Schedule a time to meet with a member of the Custom Team

XanEdu's custom publishing team is focused on the needs of our authors and works closely together to maintain our commitment to delivering all of our author’s books to press and campus on time.

Thank you for considering XanEdu for your custom publishing needs. Contact our team to discuss your next custom project!

The Higher Ed Custom Publishing Team
XanEdu, Inc.
17177 N. Laurel Park Drive, Suite 233
Livonia, MI 48152


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View our Online Custom Book Catalog

Click here to view examples of XanEdu’s custom books for a variety of disciplines. 


Get Started with Custom!

Contact us to learn more about our custom services, or to inquire about placing an order.
 
If you are a faculty member and have questions on the above benefits, or about other XanEdu custom book publishing solutions, we are happy to help!
 
Call us at 888-212-3121, or fill out the form on this page and a XanEdu representative will be in touch.
 
We look forward to hearing from you!
 

Let us know how we can help!

"Inspiring the education community with innovative solutions to build affordable, accessible learning experiences that drive student success."

- XanEdu's mission statement