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After the first round of peer review by the punctum books directors, a second round of peer review is usually commissioned from a member of our editorial board or an external reviewer. The second round of review is intended to help you strengthen your book vi...

This is very difficult to predict. It often requires a lot of labor to secure a suitable reviewer, whether a member of our Editorial Advisory Board or an external expert, and since these persons are most likely working in totally overstretched, adjunctified, a...

Our books are printed by means of print-on-demand, which is a relatively new printing technique that is currently used by nearly all academic publishers. This technique allows us to print books as they are ordered, rather than being forced to print large editi...

Because we print-on-demand, there is no set print edition. Your book will remain in print indefinitely.

Due to our current backlog, production time is up to 24 months. We are doing our utmost best to bring this back to 10–12 months. In general we strive to publish a book within 10–12 months from the moment we receive the manuscript, delivered according to our g...

We do not have any preset deadline for you to turn in your final manuscript. We are aware that everyone's writing habits and the availability of the right time and space for writing, are different. We are happy to discuss a timeline with you that works for you...

We always involve authors in the design of their book, but as a press we also have a strong sense of a graphical identity. We always try to navigate in between.

At punctum books we have a distinctive cover style that we try to maintain, so we design our covers in-house. You are of course welcome to send us ideas, suggestions, and pieces of inspiration. We encourage the usage of original works of art on our covers. Of...

Yes, we send out review copies free of charge to reviewers who have shown prior, explicit interest in reviewing your work. We do not send out blind review copies.

Images, in any number, are no problem for us as long as they are functional. Including images significantly increases production costs, so we ask authors to be considerate of that fact. Also keep in mind that for each image you will need to provide captions an...

We do not print advance copies of our books. Since we print our books via print-on-demand, review copies can only be sent out at (or slightly before) the release date of your book. We can send out a PDF for review a few weeks before that if necessary, though w...

We advise you to wait with sending out your ms. to potential reviewers and blurbers until after copyediting has been finished. But yes, you are totally free to do so. If you choose to send out the digital PDF galleys before publication, please make sure to emp...

On our usage statistics page you can see the sales and downloads of all our books. As you can see, most of our publications sell fewer than 500 copies, with a number between 500 and 1,000 and a few "best-sellers" above 1,000 copies sold. It is difficult to pre...

Your book will be available in print form initially through KDP to Amazon and all of it (global) subsidiary websites. We also distribute books directly to a select number of bookstores and in the US our books are available through our distributor Asterism Book...

Bookstack is the platform that we use for the internal and public-facing documentation of punctum's work processes, guidelines, and FAQs. Our server is https://docs.punctumbooks.com/.

We use InvoiceNinja for invoicing. Our server is https://billing.punctumbooks.com/.

Mattermost is a chat program that we use for our internal communication (we have phased out most of internal emails). Anyone can create an account and chat with us there. You can download desktop and mobile clients here. Our server is https://chat.punctumbooks...

We use Metabase for the data visualization of usage statistics. This is still under development as we try to incorporate a variety of stats on sales and downloads. Our server is https://data.punctumbooks.com/.

NextCloud is used as the cloud platform on which all our files live. This is also where the version of record of your publication is hosted. You can download desktop and mobile clients here. Our server is https://cloud.punctumbooks.com/.