Becoming author

Information
Our publishing options for your texts

Become an author

The online e-book publication and the optional book publication of your termpaper, thesis or other scholarly paper is completely free for you.

You don't have to pay anything for publishing your text. Publishing a textbook with other publishers can cost the author over 1000 Euros.


1. Market your work

With GRIN Publishing you earn money with your texts.

You receive a high royalty for every sale.

Your royalties in detail:

  • Book: 10%
  • E-book / final papers: 40%
  • E-book / other texts: 35%

You receive your royalties from the first sale on. For authors outside Germany and especially outside the EU we may cumulate your royalty up to 50 EUR - please read our Terms & Conditions.

Your royalties are calculated from the net sale price and are paid quarterly.

The sale price of books is 5-10 EUR higher than the e-book-price which means higher royalties for you.

If you wish, you may publish your text with open access for anyone - as done by thousands of our authors.

GRIN Publishing doesn't just print your text - we market it professionally with many cooperations.

We assign your text an ISBN and a DOI. It is available through the following channels:

  • As e-book and book through our market leading websites GRIN.com, Hausarbeiten.de and Diplomarbeiten24 with over 2.5 million users per month.
  • As book and e-book on the websites of our cooperation partners like SPIEGEL ONLINE, DIE ZEIT and Tagesspiegel
  • As a book in over 6000 stationary book stores
  • As book in over 1000 online shops like Libri.de, Amazon.de or Buecher.de
  • As book in Google Books
  • As e-book in (final papers) Google Scholar
  • As book and e-book in our newsletter with over 35.000 subscribers
  • As book and e-book in the main search engines. We optimize our sites for search engines and good page ranks.

2. Our one-time-payment

10 EUR for your paper

When choosing our option one-time-payment you get a guaranteed one-time-royalty of 10 EUR (in case of us publishing the text).

We take the risk that your text can't be sold or is sold seldomly.

In case of a book publication you get the same advantages as when you choose our classic marketing option: You are a book author and can mention your publications with an ISBN in your CV or present them in job interviews.

Furthermore, you can order your books at a highly discounted price.


3. Our free archive

If you want to let other users profit from your knowledge for free you may publish in our free archive.

Everyone has open access and can read and print out your texts for free.

As an option you can publish the same text as a book and get 10% royalties from the net retail price for every sale.


Text types and formats

We publish and market all academic/scholarly papers like term papers, bachelor theses, master theses, lesson plans, essays, etc. not depending on subject or date. Texts from pupils are not marketed but can be published in the free area.

The selling price depends on length, quality, grade and topicality.

Your text has to be complete (with all parts), with citations and in case of college papers graded with at least "C".

Please upload your original file (Word / Openoffice / RTF / PDF / LaTex).

Short texts with at least 9 pages can be published as printed brochures.