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POD outlets like IngramSpark (for indie authors) can literally print and ship your book as it's ordered, making your up - front costs virtually non-existent.

Don't forget, though, to subtract the print cost of your book ($ 4.29 for POD or $ 2.33 for expanded, assuming the specs of our example) to arrive at your final profit ($ 9.22 for POD or $ 11.18 for expanded).

Learn which factors influence print - on - demand (POD) book printing costs, then get estimates for our POD printing with our interactive book printing calculator.

Unlimited Publishing LLC uses a unique hybrid of new POD technologies and proven professional book publishing practices to bring back out - of - print books, and to publish new books by professional writers at a fraction of the cost of traditional book publishing methods.

POD is a great cost - saving solution, and also a green solution, as we will only print enough books needed to fill incoming orders, so there's no risk of over-printing.

Using print - on - demand (POD) technology, they can avoid printing books until they are ordered, meaning no print run costs and no warehousing expenses; ebooks, of course, can just be sold directly via Amazon and other outlets.

The introduction of Print On Demand (POD) equipment and technology has offered self publishers the opportunity to purchase short runs of perfect bound books at a reasonable cost.

If getting published traditionally doesn't especially help you to get your books on the shelves of stores (unless you are talented, awesome, hard - working, and lucky enough to be a Jim Butcher), then you've got a legitimate reason to question whether you want to roll the dice with traditional publishers (who absolutely offer many great advantages), or get 70 % royalties on your indie ebooks and get paid 80 % of your print book's list price (minus the cost of POD printing) with your print - on - demand book via Lightning Source and their 20 % short discount option — which gets you right into Amazon.com and other online bookstores, just like the big boys do.

you need someone to print and distribute the book — this can be done quite cost - effectively through a print - on - demand (POD) service, but there are still greater costs which are out of your control.

Your book printing cost (POD) is $ 6.96 / book, and you offer 55 % Wholesale Discount.

Yes, POD does normally carry with it a slightly higher cost per book to print, but because authors are printing only the books they need and profiting from their books directly without sharing a huge cut with publishers, that cost is more than offset (see what I did there?).

For those who wish, we offer our books as POD (Print on Demand — more expensive for the reader, but we have no stock or distribution costs).

A book that might have been $ 12 to $ 15 in a traditional print run might cost $ 20 as a POD, but people are willing to pay it.»

Unfortunately, the costs associated with owning and maintaining those machines, coupled with the extremely expensive licensing of books, has kept POD printing from reaching as vast a market as once hoped.

One aspect of POD that Curtis mentioned in his recent blog post is the prohibitive cost per book when comparing a typical print run of a trade paperback with the cost of printing one title at a time per customer request.

Print - on - demand publishing, or POD, is a method of book printing that uses digital technology to make it easy and cost - effective to produce books as they are ordered, either one at a time or in large numbers.

When it comes to color graphic novels or comics it seems offset printing is the way to go (otherwise the cost per book would be so high people won't purchase) but for black and white comics it seems either POD of offset printing works, so cheers for that!

Offset or POD works for paperback while hardcover should be done by offset printing because the cost is still too high with POD to make the books sellable.

For the best rendering of photos of techniques and completed projects at reasonable cost for printed books, using a self publishing platform with Print On Demand (POD) is recommended.

The advantage to POD printing is no upfront costs are required until the book is sold.

The upfront cost for books printed via the Createspace or Lightning Source POD service is minimal.

Compare a 5,000 offset print run of a typical novel, which may cost $.50 per copy, to a POD print of the same book, which may cost up to $ 5.00 per copy.

The high cost of printing your book POD keeps you out of the bookstore system, whether or not you are self published.

The cost per book for PoD is also going down, a few years ago, the PoD printing cost was higher than the retail cost of an offset print book, then it dropped so it was lower than the retail cost of a similar sized book, but without sufficient margin to allow you to sell to bookstores at 50 % list price (let alone deal with the returns).

Authors will earn an industry - leading 50 % of the selling price for printed books sold through BookShop while enjoying all the convenience and low inventory costs that make POD an attractive option for authors.

For some reason, the entire first page of the chapter is bolded, and the pictures are not converted to grayscale (color POD printing costs a fortune and we usually advise against it except for very specific types of books).

If prints are crucially needed, a rough calculation based on print - on - demand (POD) costs can save you top dollar to obtain a book.

Assuming the author puts together a quality work — including editing, cover design & proper E book formatting, at a cost of about $ 1200 (cheaper minus the edit — not recommended): The book goes online within 3 days, print version — using a POD, about 3 weeks after sign off on a galley copy (Lightning Source).

I do think you have a problem with your plan, though, because the cost of printing your book via POD is going be at least $ 7.00, and since there's a real limit to what readers will pay for fiction, this alone will eliminate virtually all your profit after you discount the book for retail.

POD books remove the need for expensive up - front costs of printing thousands of books and then warehousing them.

They operate at a huge scale where they print and warehouse tens of thousands of books at a time at costs per unit that are well below what the average POD publisher pays.

When you choose print - on - demand (POD) distribution with your Mill City Press publishing plan, you can use this calculator to estimate book printing costs.

Most Indie books are POD books and the cost of printing on demand puts considerable pressure on the retail price.

Trim sizes are factored into POD printing costs because paperbacks and hardcover books are split into «small» and «large» categories for the POD printer we work with.

Why do print - on - demand (POD) book printing costs matter?

But unlike other self - publishing companies (just compare your POD printing costs here with theirs), Mill City Press charges the street price for POD books, which allows you to set a more competitive retail price for your book.