Northwoods Press is available to academia for custom publishing books for classroom use under its University Press division. The University Press division requires advance sales of at least 80 books. Smaller books, such as chapbooks, usually require fewer than 80 advance sales to go to publication. Books for classroom use are limited to poetry and related themes and to local histories. Northwoods Press is a royalty-paying publisher and provides an advance against royalties on all contracts.
Writers receive advances on acceptance of their works.
American History Press , a division of Northwoods Press , publishes histories, including family and church histories, and geneology. American History Press works extremely well in the Northwoods Press chapbook publishing program. Northwoods Press, the poet's press, accepts chapbooks for publication. A chapbook is defined as a saddle-stapled book of 40 or fewer pages. Accepted chapbooks are produced in a professional style without charges of any kind to authors, except for authors' alterations to typesetting.