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Benefits of publishing with us

When you publish your book with Springer Nature — the world’s leading scholarly book publisher — your book will find its audience. Working with Springer Nature, you get world-class quality, elite service, wide distribution, and more. 

Springer Nature and its book imprints, including Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, and Apress, publish more academic books than anyone else in the world, with a legacy reaching back more than 180 years. Nobel laureates, paradigm-shifters, and field-leaders have all published books with Springer Nature. Adding to that legacy today means aligning with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs); and defining the forefront in AI for academic books, as well as sustainable and flexible formats.

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Why you should publish your book with Springer Nature

  • Satisfied authors: Nearly all (88%) of book authors who responded to our survey said their experience with Springer Nature was excellent or good.
  • Work with world-class editors: Springer Nature’s 400 book editors are among the best in the world. (And working with them contributed to authors’ great experiences — see the first point, above).
  • Free AI-powered translation: Powerful AI translation systems, optimised for scholarly publishing, make it easy to translate your book, for free, in up to 27 languages.
  • High impact: On average a Springer Nature eBook is downloaded 8,800 times in the first year of publication and is cited 40 times during the first four years of publication. Our content enjoys above-average citations for books in STM and HSS, with a 30% share of books in Scopus and 43% share of citations. Many books are also indexed in the Web of Science and Compendex. 
  • Book performance data at your fingertips: Each book’s page on Springer Nature Link shows the number of accesses, citations and altmetric scores.
  • Student pricing: Many students can access eBooks for free if their institution has purchased an eBook collection. Students in 31 countries can also order a MyCopy print copy for 39.99 (euros/pounds/dollars, including shipping).
  • Wide availability: All books are available on Springer Nature Link with over 50 million users at more than 10,000 institutions worldwide, where they can be freely downloaded by people whose institutions have purchased an eBook collection.
  • A leader in open access (OA) books: If you choose to publish your book OA with Springer Nature, you’ll be publishing it with one of the pioneers in OA book publishing. Since 2011, Springer Nature has published over 2,500 OA books, and offers OA book partnerships for institutions and organisations who wish to fund OA book publications. 
  • Receive a free Research Round-up, a human curated and machine-generated literature review of up to 30 published Springer Nature articles or chapters based on your publication topic.
  • Substantial lifetime author discount of 40% on all Springer Nature books (print and electronic versions). Find the books that interest you here.
  • Complimentary copies: Each author and all chapter authors will receive a complimentary eBook. EBooks are greener, and as a company, Springer Nature is committed to reducing its carbon footprint and engaging in responsible production and consumption.
  • Never out of print: Springer and Palgrave books are printed on demand, and the master files are sent to Amazon — meaning that they can print, bind, and ship the book directly from their warehouses worldwide. 
  • Textbook inspection copies (eBooks only) can be requested by lecturers and instructors.
  • 30% author commission via Author Affiliate program: Authors can earn money by promoting and selling their book via their website, blog or social network (currently 30% of the net purchase price).
  • Rigorous external peer review: 86% agreed or strongly agreed with the quality of reviewer feedback.