About Our Book Production Process
Everything you may want to know about our book production process, from contract to promotion. Different aspects are covered on the different pages, the FAQ collects questions we often receive and is constantly updated.
Contract
Your book has been reviewed positively by the punctum books co-directors and you received an emai...
Proof Correction
You have received the draft PDF of the interior of your book, we're getting close to publication ...
Ordering Author Copies
How do I order author copies? You can order author copies by sending an email to Vincent (vi...
Distribution
Print Books Our print books are printed on demand by KDP, which means they are printed when they...
Book Promotion
At punctum we are committed to ensuring that our books have the widest possible audience. We subm...
Open Source Software
There is a number of open source software platforms that we deploy at punctum books. We list them...
Bookstack
Bookstack is the platform that we use for the internal and public-facing documentation of punctum...
InvoiceNinja
We use InvoiceNinja for invoicing. Our server is https://billing.punctumbooks.com/.
Mattermost
Mattermost is a chat program that we use for our internal communication (we have phased out most ...
Metabase
We use Metabase for the data visualization of usage statistics. This is still under development a...
NextCloud
NextCloud is used as the cloud platform on which all our files live. This is also where the versi...
Ghost
Thoth
We use Thoth for our metadata management and dissemination. This is also the place you can downlo...