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Even though punctum books itself has no direct links to any AI company and will never "sell" its open access content for those purposes (in fact, we have nothing to sell in that respect), there is no doubt that AI companies crawl the internet for content. We i...

In developing a book authors and editors often include materials that have already been published elsewhere in an earlier form. Authors are usually free to incorporate their own work into a new publication without fees as long as the original publication is pr...

You always retain copyright to your work, so feel free to include parts of it in other publications. Please make sure to include proper bibliographical reference to the (upcoming) punctum publication. We can also help you amplify these publications through our...

We do not have a budget to cover image licenses. If you want to include copyrighted images in your publication you will have to secure the proper permissions.

For sure, go ahead and don't forget to tag us on Twitter, Instagram, and Bluesky @punctum_books!

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...