Publishing With Us

Since 1984, TEACH Services has helped hundreds of authors publish and market their books. We are a full-service book publisher, offering authors editing, design, typesetting, printing, and marketing services. It is our goal to assist authors in producing a high-quality, professionally designed book.

We partner with other printers and distributors, who operate multiple printing plants and distribution centers selling directly to bookstores and libraries.

This means that TEACH Services’ books are available through bookstores nationwide, overseas, and on our website.

We currently serve over 40,000 bookstores and libraries in 220 countries

Including Amazon, Apple, Target, Walmart, Barnes and Noble, Books-A-Million, and many more.

We are actively engaged in the eBook market in addition to printed books. Our titles are available in the most popular eBook formats, including Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes and Noble’s Nook, Apple’s iPad/iPhone/iPod, Google’s Android devices, and many others. This is an increasingly important element of publishing as more and more book buyers transition from printed books to electronic books.

Our publishing packages are designed for authors who are not fully funded by TEACH Services to get their book into world markets in an affordable manner. In addition, TEACH Services understands the Adventist market and has developed long-term relationships with the Adventist Book Centers, Ministries, Institutions, and retail customers who have been purchasing from us for years. Those books that qualify can be directly marketed to the Adventist community.

According to Wikipedia:

"A bestseller is a book that is identified as extremely popular by its inclusion on lists of currently top-selling or frequently borrowed titles that are based on publishing industry and book trade figures and library circulation statistics, and then published by newspapers, magazines, or bookstore chains. Some lists are broken down into classifications and specialties (number one best-selling new cookbook, novel, nonfiction, etc.). The New York Times Best Seller list is one of the best-known bestseller lists for the US. The New York Times Best Seller list tracks National and Independent book stores, as well as sales from major Internet retailers such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble."

"In everyday use, the term bestseller is not usually associated with a specified level of sales, and may be used very loosely indeed in a publisher’s publicity. Bestsellers tend not to be books considered of superior academic value or literary quality, though there are exceptions. Lists simply give the highest-selling titles in the category over the stated period. Some books have sold many more copies than contemporary 'bestsellers,' but over a long period of time."

Key Variables for Book Success:

• Market size - Adventist vs Christian
• Author marketing - How active the author is in promoting their book
• Topic interest - Books appeal to consumers
• Author's writing style - Easy to read, funny, informative...
• Reviews and Recommendations
• Repeat purchase/gifting opportunities

Consider This...

In the secular world, the number of books being published in the United States has exploded. Many book categories have become entirely saturated, with many books on every topic. With so many in each field, it has become increasingly difficult to make any book stand out. Each new title is not just competing with a million or more recently published books, but they are also competing with millions of previously published books and public domain reprints that are available for sale.

Bowker reports (PublishersWeekly.com) that over three million books were published in the United States in 2023, and this does not take into account any of the foreign English editions. More than two-thirds of these books are self-published, including reprints of public domain works and other POD (print-on-demand) books, where most of the title growth in recent years has taken place.

In the real world, as you consider publishing your book as a seasoned or first-time author, remember we are living in a time where many think, “I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing” (Rev. 3:17).

God gave you the message and the testimony to share, and rightly so He will use it to bless readers, but always keep in mind that “We should feel the responsibilities that rest upon us as Christians, and labor as though we realized the value of souls, remembering that one soul saved in the kingdom of God is worth more than ten thousand worlds like this.” (RH April 1, 1880).

Your book could be the best method to reach this one soul, regardless of the number of copies sold.