Are there any companies that publish books with no up front costs?

As always, I suggest Lulu :) http://www.lulu.com/ You just edit your book, upload it in PDF format, decide on the cover and binding options. Then set up a royalty and sell the book on their site. Since they use print on demand systems, your book only gets printed when someone orders it. Then they pay lulu, you get your royalty (lulu takes a small comission), lulu ships the book to the customer. This way there are no set-up fees. You can sell 1 book or you can sell 100 books. Good luck!

Please feel free to read my article on "How to self-publish a Book with little or no money" Crystal Watts HosannaPublishingGroup.com

I have been publishing at lulu.com I am a translator of the Word of God from Greek to English. I have already published GENESIS, EXODUS, LEVITICUS (Greek-English), THE WILL New Testament (Greek to English), ELEMENTS of SALVATION, The Right Way, GOD, ORIGIN, TRANSFER into PERFECTION, GREEK-ENGLISH (Grammar & Vocabulary), WORDS in THE WILL New Testament, and others shown at http://www.lulu.com/arseniajoaquin I have not spent even a single cent in publishing these. There are no set up fees. Authors are not even required to buy even a single copy of their books. In fact I have not seen any copy of any of my books as I have no money and I don't even have any credit card. Lulu does not interfer with the content. Write anything you want too. Choose the size there, book cover, you're free to set your royalty, etc.

I do not know of any such company but would love to find out and get in touch with them if such a company exists. It seems unlikely though since there is a substantial cost associated with publishing and I dont think any company would be willing to make that kind of an investement on an amateur writer.

u can publish through the traditional publishing houses like Random or Vintage books or u can get a good agent who can find u a publisher.

Yes, there are such companies. No commercial publisher ever charges the author anything. Instead, publishers pay writers, up front, in advance. What's a commercial publisher? Any one that you find with books on the shelves in your local bookstores. Any publisher that asks the author to pay, or requires the author to buy a certain number of copies of their own book, is a vanity press. Any publisher whose main market is their own authors, or expects the author to identify and make the bulk of their book's sales, is a vanity press. Stay away from vanity presses. It's better to remain unpublished. So: Go to a bookstore. Find books on the shelves that are similar to yours. Look on the copyright page to see who published them. Submit your work to those publishers, following their guidelines to the letter. Meanwhile, write a new, different, better book.

I'm not sure but you can check it out online. Just search book publishing.