With GRIN you can publish your term paper, bachelor thesis, master thesis, dissertation, lecture notes, exam preparations and other academic works.
Publishing your papers online and as books is completely free.
With our first option you earn through the sales of your texts. Each quarter, we pay you high percental author royalties:
You receive your money from the first sale of your eBook. On the author's site you'll find all your new sales. Your royalties are transferred to your bank account each quarter.
Prefer a guaranteed royalty? Then choose our one-time payment.
As soon as we have published your paper we will pay you a one-time royalty of $10. We take the risk that your work isn't sold. Your $10 will be transferred to your bank account with our royalty statement.
If you want to let other users profit from your knowledge for free,
you may publish in our free area. Everyone has open access to this
section and can read and print out your papers for free. As an
additional option, you can publish the same work as a book and get 15%
royalties of the book sales transferred to your bank account each
quarter.
Books have to be priced as usual, even with this option, because there
are costs arising for the production process.
Your term paper, bachelor or master thesis is distributed world wide through our sales network.
Your publications are available:
Only the best for your book.
We offer professional, additional services that help make your publication more attractive, increase your readership and thus increase your sales.
Get your expressive cover or start-up marketing support – we make it possible:
Interested? Click here for more information or contact us at premium@grin.com or +49 89 550559-0. We will be happy to assist you.
Use the advantages of your professional GRIN author profile:
We publish all academic content like
Your document has to be complete (with all parts), with citations and in case of college papers graded with at least a “C”.
The sales price is determined by length, category and topicality of paper.
Please upload your original Microsoft Word/RTF/Libre/OpenOffice-file. We also accept PDF files but these may not be convertible into all formats (ePub for iBookstore, mobi for Kindle).
For print publication the margin on the left and right side should be exactly the same (at least 1.5 cm). Please center your page numbers if possible.
Find our complete quality guidelines here.
When you accept our contract, you declare that you have the exclusive copyright and right of use for the files you submitted. That means, you created the work on your own and did not use any unnamed sources. It also includes not having given the exclusive rights of publication to another company.
Please only upload your term papers and theses once they have been officially graded. Of course, this does not apply to scientific essays or specialized books that are not subject to academic evaluation. In order to avoid legal problems, please make sure you have correctly cited all copyright protected sources, including both direct and indirect quotations, pictures and charts. If a picture serves nothing but decorative purposes, for example on the title page, we have to ask you to remove it. Also keep in mind that simply naming the works cited in a bibliography at the end of the paper is not sufficient.
If your paper contains internal information on a specific company, please ask for a written declaration of agreement before submitting the manuscript. Alternatively, you can choose to remove or anonymize the information in question.
If your work contains interviews, please either ask your interviewees for whether they agree to the publication or remove the interviews from your manuscript.
For the publication of lesson plans or internship reports, you have to remove all details regarding the name and place of the scholarly institution as well as all names of teachers and students mentioned in the text.
Important: Prospective teachers who, during their training, compose internal reports and lesson plans, may not be allowed to publish these. This may differ due to your country and region, so it is recommended to check with your supervisor or the respective education authority first.
If you have questions, please contact our support team at info@grin.com.
Royalties are paid for each sale based on the following table.
If you have accepted the contract before January 27th 2015 (16:30), please follow this link to view your royalties table.
| Final thesis, textbook | Other text | |
| of publisher's margin | of publisher's margin | |
| eBook sales | ||
| www.GRIN.com and company websites | 40% | 35% |
| iBookstore | 15% | 15% |
| Amazon Kindle | 15% | 15% |
| Google Play | 15% | 15% |
| Ciando + Partners | 15% | 15% |
| Libri + Partners | 15% | 15% |
| Genios direct download | 15% | 15% |
| Royalty bonus for partner links* | +5% | +5% |
| Book sales | ||
| Via Books on Demand / wholesaler | 15% | 15% |
| Direct sale via GRIN websites | 15% | 15% |
| Royalty bonus for partner links* | +5% | +5% |
The publisher's margin is the net retail price minus trade discounts, production and shipping costs.
The retail price can be set by each shop unless there is a law for fixed book prices, in which case the price set by the publisher has to be used.
If the author chooses the one-time-payment, the percentaged participation on the sales does not apply. In this case, the author receives a one-time payment of 10 € (respectively 10 GBP, 10 CHF or 10 USD, according to the country).
For sales in the context of a granting of a license to other publishers in the publishing group, the author receives a ten percent royalty of the publisher's margin. These royalties are paid yearly due to accounting processes of other publishers.
Yearly royalty payments also apply for subscription models and various rent and download models e.g. of libraries.
* If you link to your texts with a partner code link, you can earn an extra 5% on every sale which is generated with this link. More info on our affiliate program: click here.
Publish a collection of you work, a lecture series, or a collaborative effort.
Simply create a series at GRIN and add the papers you want to publish. Other authors who want to publish in the series can join and add their papers.
Series publications are suitable for:
We already cooperate with colleges like HdM Stuttgart, University of Mainz, University of Bremen and University of Zurich.
Our publication service is unique and free - and you earn up to 40% royalties on the sales. If you have questions please contact our customer support or call us at: +49 89-550559-0.
GRIN is specialized in university documents. With interfaces perfectly suited for your needs you can publish all university content on the ebook and book market.
Optionally you can offer the ebook-versions of your papers to users for free (open access publication).
Sounds interesting? Please contact our customer support or call us at +49 89 550 559-0.
Publishers who publish printed books but do not yet create and distribute ebooks can use our specialized services to monetize their publications electronically:
If you have questions please contact our customer support at info@grin.com or +49 89 550 559-0.
GRIN brings your documents to thousands of online shops and book stores. So we make sure that your publications are found by everyone - we add new distribution channels day by day.
GRIN Publishing, located in Munich, Germany, has specialized since its foundation in 1998 in the publication of academic ebooks and books. The publishing website GRIN.com offer students, graduates and university professors the ideal platform for the presentation of scientific papers, such as research projects, theses, dissertations, and academic essays to a wide audience.
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