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You finally did it: Her dissertation was the doctoral thesis supervisor recommended by the Commission for adoption, the second reviewer has also agreed already, you have brought your oral examination, your defense or your colloquium successfully behind him and the whole promotion process will be behind you. The entire promotion process? No, a detail is missing: the publication of your dissertation. In publishing, there are usually three alternatives. Publishers who offer a free publication, the publishers require the author to printing costs, and online publication. In this text, we compare the various alternatives for the publication of a dissertation services. We draw on each of a publishing house that stands as an archetype for a business model.

Competition among publishers

Annually in Germany have approximately 35,000 dissertations are published. Most of them are in a book, but some published in a different form. Published each year about all book categories across 75,000 to 100,000 books. Dissertations are therefore a significant proportion of the total production of the German Book Trade Title Accordingly represents great is the number of dissertation publishers - and thus spoiled for choice.

If you consider publishing your dissertation as a compulsory exercise in order to obtain the doctoral degree and finally a doctorate may lead, you should think about a free publication. Meanwhile, there are publishers like the dissertation publishing, which assume the cost of the printing press and the publishing process to one hundred percent. These publishers refinance solely on book sales. They demand, in contrast to the large number of specialized publication of theses publishers no printing costs by the author. Generally, a publication subsidy serves as a financing for printing and marketing of a dissertation. The actual cost of printing and marketing are in our estimation between 250 € and 750 €. The exact cost of the printing process and the intensity of marketing activities depend. An elaborate marketing a dissertation as a book (> 1000 €) will be profitable for the publisher only in a few easy to sell dissertations. But there are publishers that require several thousand euros as printing costs. Here it can be assumed that some publishers can pay their good name.

Dissertations are naturally very specific release that are usually of interest to a very small circle of people. With measures to marketing to these interested persons are addressed. Large advertising campaigns that cost a lot of money and appeal to people who are interested in the specific topic of the dissertation hardly make much sense. If a publisher for publication so requires several thousand euros, you should explain, for the individual actions of the publisher uses the money actually. Then you can better assess whether this investment is worthwhile.