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Professional Rates (The Hardcover)
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Some Books You Read Once and Set Aside. This One Lives on Your Desk.
There is something different about holding a book that was written for you. Not one that was adapted or translated for you. Not even one that was converted from someone else's country and handed to you with a shrug. This one is written for you.
Professional Rates: How Business-Smart Editors Calculate, Quote and Attract Serious Clients is the first pricing book built from the ground up for African editors and professionals, and this is the hardcover edition. The one you keep. The one you return to before discussing with any new client. The one your colleagues will notice on your shelf and ask about.
For $27, it is yours. Shipped directly to your address within Africa and a shipping fee anywhere else in the world.
This hardcover copy sits where you work. It gets dog-eared at the pages that matter most. It gets passed to a colleague with a sticky note on chapter three. It gets referenced mid-project when a client sends a budget that does not reflect the work involved. It becomes part of how you work and not just something you read once and moved on from.
Professional Rates is a reference book, a framework book and a book you will return to at every new stage of your editing career, especially when you raise your rates, when you take on your first ghostwriting client, when you hire your first associate editor on contract, and when you sit across from a publisher and need to know what the right figure should be.
Books like this one belong in hardcover.
What Is Inside
A step-by-step system for building your rate from the ground up using your real cost of living, your actual market and your income goals. Not a number copied from someone else's reality. Your number, calculated correctly, for the first time.
How to pivot to professional rates. It covers the mindset shift, the portfolio positioning and the internal preparation that makes raising your rates sustainable rather than terrifying. Most editors skip this step. That is why their rate increases do not stick.
Exactly how to quote your rate with confidence, what to say when a client pushes back, and how to close a quoting conversation without apologising for your worth.
Exactly why foreign rates do not translate to your market, what African clients and publishers actually budget, and how to position yourself as the premium choice without pricing yourself out of your own industry.
Exactly how pricing changes when you scale beyond yourself. How to quote for a team, structure editorial packages and build a business that does not depend entirely on your own capacity alone.
Exactly how your rates signal your positioning and how to use that signal deliberately to attract clients who value professional editorial work and pay for it properly.
This Hardcover Book Is Worth Owning If
You are an editor, ghostwriter or publisher who wants a permanent professional reference on your desk, not a file in a folder you will forget to open.
You prefer reading in print, like following an argument page by page, marking what matters, and returning to specific sections as your career evolves.
You want to give this book as a gift to an editor you mentor, a ghostwriting colleague who deserves better rates, or a publishing team that needs to understand what professional editing investment looks like.
You are building a professional library, and you want Professional Rates in it because the African publishing conversation finally has a pricing resource worth keeping.
You already have the digital edition and you want the physical copy to sit alongside it.
From the Author
I am Chisom Utibe Akah and have spent 16+ years inside the African publishing industry as a professional editor, ghostwriter and publisher of authors across the continent. I have edited hundreds of manuscripts, ghostwritten books that have reached wide audiences and sat on the publishing side of the table, and I understand what clients actually budget for editing work, not just what editors wish clients would pay. I wrote Professional Rates because the book did not exist, and I am done watching talented African editors, ghostwriters and publishers undervalue work that deserved to be properly paid for. Thank you for getting this hardcover edition.
Thoughts
"Seven experienced editors, ghostwriters and publishers pre-ordered before the manuscript was finished. That tells you everything." — Author
Shipping Information
Delivery: The hardcover edition is shipped to Nigeria at no extra cost. Your copy will be dispatched from July 5, 2026, and you will get informed as soon as it is on its way.
Other African countries and outside Africa: If you are not buying from Nigeria and want a hardcover copy shipped, contact [email protected] or +234 803 899 4417 before ordering, and shipping will be arranged at your own cost.
Order confirmation: You will receive a confirmation message immediately after purchase with your order details and shipping timeline.
+FAQs
Does this include the digital edition?
The hardcover listing is for the physical book only. If you would like the digital edition alongside it, the Stop Undercharging Bundle in Tier 2 at $17 includes the digital edition plus six practical implementation tools. The Complete Experience in Tier 3 at $97 includes both editions plus the full bundle and a year in The Editorial Boardroom Mastermind.
When will my copy arrive?
Hardcover copies will be dispatched from July 5, 2026. You will receive tracking information as soon as your copy ships. If you have questions about your specific location, contact [email protected] or Whatsapp +2348038994417 before ordering.
Can I order multiple copies?
Yes. For bulk orders of 5 copies or more, contact [email protected] with the word BULK before placing your order, and a special rate will be arranged.
Is this book suitable as a gift?
Absolutely. A hardcover copy of Professional Rates is a meaningful professional gift for any editor, ghostwriter or publisher in your circle, especially one you know is undercharging for their work. It arrives as a complete, standalone book requiring no additional purchase to be useful.
What if I want the bonuses too?
The Stop Undercharging Bundle with six bonuses is not included in the hardcover standalone listing. They are available in Tier 2 at $17 and Tier 3 at $97. Contact [email protected] with the word UPGRADE and your hardcover purchase will be credited toward either tier.
I have questions before I order.
Send a message to [email protected] with the word HARDCOVER and you will receive a personal response within 24 hours.
For Bulk and Institutional Orders
Are you a publishing house, editing training programme, writers' association or professional community that wants to put Professional Rates in the hands of your members or team? Bulk orders of 5 copies or more qualify for a special rate. Contact [email protected] with the word BULK ORDER and your estimated quantity before placing your order. Institutional orders for 20 copies or more will receive a personalised message from the author inside each copy.
PRICE
$27 (Hardcover and shipping within Nigeria)
Shipping to other countries is available at an additional cost. Contact [email protected] to arrange before ordering.
The African Publishing Industry is Growing; the Professionals Building it Deserve a Seat at the Table and the Framework to Claim it.
This book - Professional Rates, exists because the framework was missing. It is not missing anymore. For $27, you get the complete book, physically printed, professionally bound and shipped to your door with every calculation method, every quoting principle, every African market insight and every argument for why your work deserves to be properly paid for.
Order Your Hardcover Copy now at $27.