Become an author -
benefit greatly
Monetize your work
With GRIN you can publish your term papers, textbooks, your dissertation or thesis - all kinds of academic works. Don't let your paper get dusty in your drawer - make something of your hard work!
Publishing your papers online and as books (optional) is completely free.
Your benefits
- Earn royalties through the sales of your papers.
- Free book publication:
a textbook publication can cost more than $1000 with classic publishers - Distribution via online shops like Amazon and thousands of stationary book stores
- Choose between a professional author profile or an anonymous or pseudonymous publication
- Your royalties are transferred to your bank account each quarter.
Choose your option
- Earn author royalties through your sales
- Guaranteed one-time payment
- Publishing in the free area
Your options:
Just beneficial
1. Market your papers
With our first option you earn through the sales of your texts. Each quarter, we pay you high percental author royalties:
- Book: 10% of the net sale price
- eBook - thesis or textbook: up to 40%
- eBook - other text: up to 35%
Reliable and secure
You receive your money from the first sale of your eBook. Under "Account / Statements" you'll find all your new sales. Your royalties are transferred to your bank account each quarter.
The sale price of printed books may be up to $15 higher than the ebook-price which means higher royalties for you. At the bottom of this page you find a detailed royalties table.
All of our services are free for you!
2. Guaranteed one-time royalty
Prefer a guaranteed royalty? Then choose our one-time payment.
$10 for your paper
If we publish your paper we pay you $10. We take the risk that your work isn't sold. Your $10 will be transferred to your bank account with our quarterly statement.
If we publish your paper as a book you become a book author and can present your publications e.g. in job applications.
3. Publishing in the free area
If you want to let other users profit from your knowledge for free you may publish in our free area. Everyone has open access and can read and print out your papers for free. As an option you can publish the same work as a book and get 10% royalties of the book sales transferred to your bank account each quarter.
Your book at GRIN
Your papers -
worldwide
We assign an ISBN and a DOI to your papers. We market them professionally over our large distribution network.
The channels
Your publications are available
- through our market leading website GRIN.com with up to 2 million users per month.
- on the websites of renowned cooperation partners
- in our newsletter with over 35.000 subscribers
- in all big search engines
- in Google Scholar (only theses and textbooks)
- as books in over 6000 stationary book stores
- as books in hundreds of online shops like Amazon
- as books in Google Books
Your author profile
Attract attention
Use the advantages of your GRIN author profile:
- Introduce yourself to other authors and readers
- Upload your photo
- Find authors with similar interests
- Present your academic work
- Describe your academic career
- Attract the attention of companies and business partners
Publish your work
as a series
Publish a collection of you work, a lecture series, or a collaborative effort.
Cover with your logo
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.
Bundle your knowledge
Series publications are suitable for:
- University courses
- Professorships or chairs
- Personal publications on a subject
- Speech series
- Presentation series of companies
- Guidebooks
More information
- Your series description is printed inside the book
- Your series title is printed on the cover
- Author royalties are transfered to the author of the particular book
Types of papers
and formats
This is what we publish
We publish all academic content like
- textbooks
- term papers
- theses
- essays and interpretations
- lesson plans
- dissertations
independent from subject or date.
The sales price is determined by length, quality, grade and topicality of paper.
Your text has to be complete (with all parts), with citations and in case of college papers graded with at least "C".
File formats
Please upload your original Word/RTF/OpenOffice-file. We also accept PDF files.
Short papers with at least 9 pages can be published as printed brochures.
Please note
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.
Royalties
Royalties are paid for each sale based on the following table. Net Sales Price = Retail price minus taxes.
| Final thesis, textbook | Other text | |
| of net sales price | of net sales price | |
| Ebook-sales | ||
| www.grin.com | 40% | 35% |
| www.hausarbeiten.de | 40% | 35% |
| www.diplomarbeiten24.de | 40% | 35% |
| www.unterweisungen.de | 40% | 35% |
| Amazon.de Marketplace | 40% | 35% |
| Direct sale in GRIN office | 40% | 35% |
| Hausarbeiten.de/spiegel | 40% | 35% |
| Ciando + Partners | 10% | 10% |
| Libri + Partners | 10% | 10% |
| Genios direct download | 10% | 10% |
| Book sales | ||
| Via Books on Demand / wholesaler | 10% | 10% |
| Direct sale in GRIN office | 10% | 10% |
If the author chooses the one-time-payment, the percentaged participation on the sales does not apply.
Net sales price is the recommended sales price in each country exclusive of VAT. Or, if mandatory by law, the fixed national retail price exclusive of VAT.