Paper Raven Books

Name

Paper Raven Books

Legal name

Paper Raven Books

Website

https://paperravenbooks.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Self-Publishing Services

NAICS

Other Publishers (51319)

SIC

Miscellaneous Publishing (2741)

akta.pro primary industry

Editorial & Production Services (Copyediting, Proofreading, Formatting, Typesetting) (MPAJAJAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Manuscript Development Services (Coaching, Developmental Editing) (MPAJAJAF)

Keywords

• Self-publishing services
• Book editing design
• Manuscript review
• Book publishing packages
• Author publishing services

Headquarters

HQ city

Denver

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Manuscript Review Services: One-time fee of $950 for senior book coach to review the full manuscript and provide written feedback letter, with a coaching call to discuss suggestions. This serves as the entry point and qualification step before the publishing package.
2. Custom Publishing Packages: One-time project fees ranging from $7,500 to $12,500 depending on manuscript length and design needs. Includes copyediting, proofreading, custom cover design, custom interior design, formatting, Amazon KDP publishing, and launch promotion. Royalties flow directly to authors (100%), not through Paper Raven Books.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Paper Raven Books is a self-publishing services company that helps authors publish nonfiction, fiction, and memoir books while retaining full creative control, legal rights, and 100% of royalties. Services include manuscript review by a senior book coach, followed by custom publishing packages covering copyediting, proofreading, custom cover and interior design, formatting, and publication as ebook and physical book via Amazon KDP, with optional IngramSpark distribution for bookstores and libraries.

Product overview

Paper Raven Books is a self-publishing services team that helps authors publish nonfiction, fiction, and memoir books while retaining full creative control, legal rights, and 100% of royalties. The core offering consists of Manuscript Review (a senior book coach feedback service with marketing roadmap and self-publishing guide), followed by a Custom Publishing Package (encompassing editing, cover/interior design, formatting, and distribution). Authors can add Amazon-Optimized Launch services for category ranking and promotion, and may access specialized editors through the Professional Book Editors Association partnership. The company publishes to Amazon KDP as ebook and physical book, with optional IngramSpark access for bookstore and library distribution.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Manuscript Review

Quantifiable outcome

• Books ranked #1 in their best Amazon categories after five-day launch promotion

Named customers6 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Professional Book Editors Association (PBEA)coreTechnology or IntegrationPaper Raven Books partners with the Professional Book Editors Association to bring in trained and credentialed editors who specialize in certain genres, sub-genres, topics, and narrative styles as project needs require. When a PBEA editor joins a project, they integrate seamlessly into the communication process, ensuring coordination of the best publishing industry talent for each book.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• IngramSpark: IngramSpark provides print-on-demand and distribution services to bookstores and libraries worldwide. Paper Raven Books offers IngramSpark as an optional add-on for author-managed accounts, making it an enabling infrastructure provider rather than a competitor.
• Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing: Amazon KDP is the primary distribution platform Paper Raven Books uses to publish author ebooks and paperbacks. It is the foundational infrastructure PRB builds upon, and changes to its terms, royalty structure, or category dynamics directly affect author outcomes.
• Bowker (ISBN Services): Bowker is the exclusive U.S. provider of ISBNs and publisher identifiers used in book publishing. While it does not directly compete with Paper Raven Books, every PRB project ultimately relies on Bowker's identifier infrastructure to assign ISBNs to published titles.

Direct peers

• AuthorHouse: AuthorHouse is a long-standing self-publishing services provider offering editing, design, marketing, and distribution packages to independent authors. It serves the same professional self-publishing customer that Paper Raven Books targets, with overlapping deliverables and pricing structures.
• Greenleaf Book Group: Greenleaf Book Group is a hybrid publisher offering professional publishing services in exchange for author investment and revenue share. It targets the same nonfiction and thought-leadership author segment that PRB serves, making it a hybrid-publishing alternative to PRB's self-publishing services model.
• Lulu: Lulu is an established self-publishing platform offering print-on-demand book production, distribution, and direct publishing tools to independent authors. Although more productized than PRB's concierge model, it competes for the same self-publishing authors and offers comparable print and ebook distribution channels.
• BookBaby: BookBaby is a full-service self-publishing services company offering editing, design, formatting, and distribution packages to independent authors. It competes head-to-head with Paper Raven Books for the same nonfiction, fiction, and memoir author segments with comparable menu-based pricing.

Emerging players

• Smashwords: Smashwords is an ebook publishing and distribution platform serving independent authors and small publishers. While narrower than Paper Raven Books' offering, it competes for the same self-publishing authors on the distribution and discoverability dimensions.
• Draft2Digital: Draft2Digital provides ebook formatting, distribution, and marketing tools to self-publishing authors across multiple retailers. It addresses a subset of PRB's value proposition — distribution and discoverability — but lacks the concierge editing and design services Paper Raven Books offers.
• Reedsy: Reedsy is a marketplace connecting authors with vetted freelance editors, designers, and marketers, plus a free self-publishing toolset. It overlaps with Paper Raven Books' curated-services model but operates as a marketplace/technology intermediary rather than a full in-house team.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/paperravenbooks
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/paper-raven-books

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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