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This is an update of an article originally published July 2000 at Inkspot.com, minus the commentary. E-PUBLISHER
ACCEPTANCE RATES
A lot of people make the assumption that most e-publishers are more intent
on building their inventory than building a quality inventory; that
they’re not willing to publish quality content if it means accepting less.
Therefore, most e-publishers will accept anything. Is it true? Well, look
at the following statistics and see if there’s a lot of truth to this assumption:
{Note: All submission and acceptance numbers are estimates given by the
publisher. Unless otherwise stated, acceptance rates are based on monthly*
percentages. Acceptance rate percentages were calculated by taking the number
of submissions/acceptances, dividing acceptance rate by submissions and
multiplying by 100 in the case of monthly acceptance rate. To figure those
who publish only a certain number of books per year, the number of
mss. submitted monthly was calculated and then multiplied by 12 to estimate
the annual submission rate, an average of submissions/acceptances was taken,
acceptance rate was divided by submission, then multiplied by 100. In the
case where the publisher wasn’t specific enough, such as “receives 25-50
submissions per month; accepts 2-3”, a median was taken for each, acceptance
rate was divided by submission, multiplied by 100 to get the percentage,
then rounded to the nearest whole number. So 25-50 submissions = 37.5; 2-3
accepted = 2.5, 2.5/37.5 = 0.06666666 x 100 = 7% acceptance rate.}
Abby the Troll Publications, LLC receives three or four
submissions per month. Of those, usually only one is accepted for publication.
(28% acceptance rate)
Adventure Book Publishers receives approximately 30 queries
a day. Of the 30 queries, only 4 or 5 may be invited to submit a manuscript
for review. Of those submissions, possibly 1-3 may be accept for publication.
(7% acceptance rate)
Albooktross, Inc. currently receives an average of 10 to
15 submissions per month. “Most books are accepted for publication.”
Alexandria Digital Literature receives 20 - 40 submissions
each month; “most are accepted.”
Antelope Publishing receives between two and five per month
and many more queries; publishes about five new books per year* plus out
of copyright books. (12% acceptance rate)
Atlantic Bridge Publishing receives an average of 50 submissions;
out of that, accepts maybe 1-2. (3% acceptance rate)
Author Network {Puff Adder Books} receives 10-15 submissions
per month; of these accepts on average three titles. (24% acceptance
rate)
Awe-Struck E-Books, Inc. receives 25-50 submissions per
month; accepts 2-3 per month. (7% acceptance rate)
Booklocker.com’s number of submissions varies greatly;
publishes less than 10% of incoming mss.
Bookmice.com e-Books {a division of McGraw Publishing Group}
receives 50 to 75 submissions a month; accepts an average of 25 to 50 a
month. (60% acceptance rate)
Cloudy Mountain Books/The Fiction Forest receives 10-25
submissions per month; accepts approximately 6 titles per year. (3%
acceptance rate)
Crowsnest Books receives about 5 new e-book submissions
a month. About a third of these might be asked to do a re-write and re-submit.
Daylight Dreams {An Imprint of Dreams Unlimited} accepts
about 1% of what’s received.
Denlinger’s Publishers, Ltd. averages 400 received; less
than 2% accepted per month.
Disc-Us Books, Inc. receives approximately 10 queries a
day; have published 40 books (since opening in November 1998) and have another
10 titles in production or under contract.
DiskUs Publishing receives 150-300 submissions per month,
depending on the month; acceptance rate is approximately 3%.
DLSIJ Press receives 20-30 submissions per month, accepts
1-2 per month. (6% acceptance rate)
Dreams Unlimited accepts about 1% of what’s received.
Eastgate Hypertext Reading Room accepts 1 or 2 a year.
Eastgate Systems, Inc. accepts 2-3 titles per year.
eBooks-For-Sale.com receives 15 to 20 submissions per month;
5 to 15 accepted per month. (57% acceptance rate)
e-booksonline (uk) ltd averages 6 submissions per month;
90% acceptance.
Ebookspecials receives 10-15 submissions per month; accepts
approximately 2-4 per month. (24% acceptance rate)
eboox.co.uk Ltd receives 20 submissions per month, accepts
10 per month. (50% acceptance rate)
E-dition receives anywhere from 10 to 20 submissions per
month; about 10% of those are chosen to be published.
eKIDna eBooks {from The eKIDna Library} receives one or
two submissions per month; has accepted one book so far.
E-Pub2000 receives about 50 submissions per month, accepting
one out of fifty per month. (2% acceptance rate)
Erotic-Ebooks.com’s number of submissions varies greatly;
publishes less than 10% of incoming mss.
Fairgo E-Books receives three submissions per month; accepts
usually 100% per month.
The Fiction Works receives an average of 200 total submissions
with adult acceptance rate at 9% and juvenile at 5%.
Gemini Books, Inc. receives 30-50 submissions per month;
accepts 1-2 per month. (4% acceptance rate)
Great American Publishing Society {GR.AM.P.S.} accepts
less than 5% of submissions.
Hard Shell Word Factory receives over 100 submissions per
month; accepts 4 to 6 per month. (less than 6% acceptance rate)
HyperTech Media, Inc. currently receives about 10 submissions
per month; accepts about 10% per month.
Intellectua.com, LLC receives 100 submissions per month;
accepts 2-3 per month. (2 ½ percent acceptance rate)
Jacobyte Books receives an average of 45 submission per
month; 10-20% acceptance per month.
LionHearted Publishing, Inc. receives 50-300 submissions
per month; accepts 1 out of 100. (1% acceptance rate)
London Circle Publishing receives 15-20 submissions per
month; currently accepting between three and four a month for publication.
(20% acceptance rate)
Lone Wolf Publications’ acceptance rate of submitted works
is 15%; single author collections are typically solicited by us, so we receive
few submissions or inquires for those. Of the queries we do process, we've
accepted perhaps 5%.
LTDBooks receives 10-15 submissions per month; 1-2 are
accepted per month. (12% acceptance rate)
MapleInk Publishing receives over 500 submissions per month
and accepts an average of two per month. (less than 1% acceptance
rate)
Media Arts, Ltd. d/b/a/Picturerotica received around 35
submissions in their first month of operation; accepted four of them for
publication.
Mushroom eBooks receives about 25 submissions a month;
currently accepts 1 or 2 per month. (6% acceptance rate)
Mystic-Ink Publishing receives between 20 to 40 submissions
each month and requests four or five complete manuscripts each month. (15%
“request” rate)
Oberon Publishing receives about two submissions per month,
one of which is accepted for publication per month. (50% acceptance
rate)
Pink Tree Press receives 3 or 4 submissions per month;
accepts 1+ per month. (28% acceptance rate)
Private Ice Publications/Sportsfics.com receives three
to five submissions per year*; accepts about two per year. (50%
acceptance rate)
Qvadis typically receives 50 submissions per month, and
accepts 1 per month. (2% acceptance rate)
Renaissance E Books receives 20 submissions per month;
accepts 3-5 per month. (20% acceptance rate)
RJ’s eBOOKs average monthly submissions are between one
per month to around 5 or 6 per month. RJs rejects “one in ten manuscripts.”
(90% acceptance rate)
Salvo Press receives 60 submissions per month; accepts
less than one per month. (2% acceptance rate)
Sanctum Press averages 20 solicited mss. per month; average
of 2 accepted per month. (10% acceptance rate)
Saxco Publishing receives 50 submissions per month; approximately
5-10 accepted per month. (15% acceptance rate)
Scorpius Digital Publishing receives fewer than five submissions
per month, and publishes perhaps one of those five. (20% acceptance
rate)
SeeSpotBooks.com receives about 20 submissions per month.
“Our acceptance rate is much lower than that.”
Sensory Publishing, Inc. publishes 1 out of 75 books submitted.
(1 ½% acceptance rate)
Sirius Publications receives 8 submissions per month; accepts
1 per month. (12% acceptance rate)
SMC Publishing receives two to three submissions per month;
accepts one or two per month. (60% acceptance rate)
Southern Charm Press receives around 15 to 20 submissions
per month; only 1 to 2 accepted per month for publication. (8%
acceptance rate)
Spilled Candy Books receives 75 submissions a month; accepts
roughly 10% of submissions (related to paganism.)
SynergEbooks.com receives 30 submissions per month;
80% accepted per month.
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