It would be really convenient way to introduce the audience more
about Print on Demand drop shippers such as Printful, Pressera, Print Aura, Merchify and others.
Learn more
about print on demand here after listening.
So, without further ado, let's welcome Robin... Our promise today is to talk a little
about print on demand and what your options are as an author as well as the different -LSB-...]
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about Print On Demand on BookShop can be found at https://www.bookbaby.com/bookshop-store/.
What's so great
about print on demand is that it allows you, as an author and as a publisher, to bring your book to the marketplace and reduce the risk of doing so.
I only knew
about print on demand books, so I stuck with that strategy for the first few months of the year, creating journals that were historic.
I get very excited
about print on demand (here, I explain how it changed my life!)
Another thing
about print on demand is that a title can be easily updated or corrected simply by making changes to the file and re-uploading those files into your IngramSpark account.
For example, I didn't know
about print on demand when I started and thus spent money on a print run at a time I couldn't afford it.
Robin Cutler [00:02:02] Let's just talk for a minute
about print on demand and what it is.
Justine Bylo [00:03:00] Yeah, the great thing
about print on demand is that you can not tell the difference between a print - on - demand book and an offset book anymore.
I can remember when I first learned
about print on demand 20 years ago.
With all the talk
about print on demand, digital printing and the future of the publishing industry, it's easy to forget that we've got books to produce in the here and now, and we need to know the best way to produce those books today, this week.
Not exact matches
First, Pam Fielding at E-Advocates has an article
about integrating
print and online materials into an activist - building campaign, and takes the opportunity to hawk a new
print -
on -
demand product that the company is offering.
Baraniuk envisions a day when his site will hold so much knowledge that each student can have a personalized textbook cobbled together from various modules to match his or her strengths and weaknesses, then ordered from a
print -
on -
demand publisher for
about $ 20 and delivered to school overnight.
In the days of digital technology, e-books, tablet reading devices and Kindle Direct Publishing (to name one distribution platform), paperback for indie authors was the one «as yet unconquered» land for self - published authors everywhere until
about four years ago, when Amazon - owned
print -
on -
demand company CreateSpace built traction and changed the playing field for indies everywhere.
Learn
about copyright,
print on demand, ISBN numbers, and how to avoid publishing scams — everything you need to publish an excellent book.
Your readers may find helpful information (and distinctions) between «vanity publishing» and «self» or «independent publishing» at this site: Self - Publishing and
Print -
on -
Demand Technologies http://bit.ly/PODselfpublish And if you haven't already overdosed
on reading
about e-books you might check this out: http://bit.ly/ieqWXC Both are
on the Writers and Editors website.
I self - published (
print on demand) a niche non-fiction last year; totally happy
about every aspect of it.
Everything you need to know
about book distribution, including the advantages and disadvantages of expanded and
print -
on -
demand (POD) distribution.
We talked
about the different books I have, re-purposing your content,
print on demand and the changes that are going
on today.
About EE Media The OJSC «EE Media» is a Russian holding company, together with its subsidiaries letmeprint, book
on demand and kniga po trebovaniy that is engaged in
print -
on -
demand (POD) and e-book distribution in Russia and the Former Soviet Union.
A little
about me: I have two ebooks indie published (one available in
print), a contract with a small press for a digital serial style series with the option of
print on demand copies later, and more ideas and drafts then I know what to do with other then publish them one at a time myself.
In - depth, step - by - step information
about working with these two very popular
print -
on -
demand services.
I'm going to talk
about the primary ways to get your work out there right now (
print -
on -
demand paperback publishing and e-publishing) and how much things costs, but I want to say up front that there are very few things you have to pay for.
With hopes to publish in July 2012 now that they've reached their fund raising goal, it looks I could be writing
about the first license - and -
print on -
demand manga title in English this coming Summer.
But I'd so much like to catch authors before it's too late to get a book publicist really excited
about a project: before a major book publishing house has given up
on promoting the book (or lost interest in selling the book) or before an author has committed to working with a
print -
on -
demand company whose imprint would make a book
about 95 % more difficult to properly promote than it has to be.
Robin Cutler [00:10:14] Pam, talk a little bit
about, just to give our listeners an idea of what the unit cost is for a typical
print -
on -
demand book.
Learn more
about the differences between ebook covers and
print -
on -
demand covers and get tips
on designing each.
Robin Cutler [00:08:29] And the color, talk a little bit
about just how good the color is these days with
print on demand.
But with so many options available today (self - publishing, ebooks, traditional publishing,
print -
on -
demand, etc.), if you want to publish a book, then you have a lot to think
about!
Print on demand is a technology that started
about 20 years ago and it actually started when the Ingram book company actually created a company called Lightning Source.
Print -
on -
demand titles are often sold at short discount:
about 25 percent to retailers and
about 36 percent to wholesalers.
By
printing the books
on demand locally and by
printing just as many books as we need, we won't have to worry
about wastefully publishing a bunch of narrow - interest books that may or may not sell.»
Robin Cutler [00:16:43] We're big, big fans and we're here to help with any kind of questions you have
about not only
print on demand, but anything related to indie publishing.
Robin Cutler [00:06:44] Pam, talk a little bit
about what's available through
print on demand.
When I self - published my first book in 2012 (the Do - Pad), I knew nothing
about self - publishing — given this was a journal where I was mainly using self - publishing as an affordable option to
print -
on -
demand, that made sense.
We have several articles
about CreateSpace, Amazon's
print -
on -
demand service, and help authors publish their eBooks using CreateSpace.
About 15 ABA stores have
print on demand with the Espresso Machine and rather than buying books through the machines it has turned out that the major revenue from the machines comes from the self - publishing business of their customers» books.
Because the book is available worldwide through digital and
print -
on -
demand channels like Amazon and Smashwords, I don't have to worry
about it disappearing from bookstores!
Publishing and distribution is the act of uploading your book and the information
about it to your preferred bookstores and
print -
on -
demand outlets.
Instead, I'm going to weigh in
on this ongoing hooplah
about Amazon.com making a business decision that no small or self - publisher wants to hear: that
print -
on -
demand books sold through Amazon must use Amazon's subsidiary, BookSurge, rather than relying
on the industry standard, Lightening Source.
Another way to think
about it is this: Anyone can start a publishing company based
on print -
on -
demand and e-book technology since there are little or no warehousing, fulfillment, and shipping costs.
Since most self - published books are done through POD (
print on demand), authors don't have to worry
about (or pay for) storing them.
The best part
about revising your book with IngramSpark is the fact that your books are
printed on demand, meaning revising a file doesn't mean throwing out unsold copies or a warehouse full of inventory containing that annoying typo.
Or, in the case of
print -
on -
demand books, your words will languish — unprinted and unbound — inside a computer unless you let potential readers know
about your work.
There is one thing they missed a bit, and it's that
print on demand isn't necessarily more expensive than offset
printing these days, unless you're talking
about printing up * huge * numbers of books
on your own.
So, you are
about to self - publish a book in e-book or
print -
on -
demand format.
Lately I've been reading a lot
about the Espresso Book Machine (EBM)-- the
print -
on -
demand machine that, essentially, spits out books in 4 minutes flat.
Atlas is a tool for collaborative writing (currently being used by authors of
about two - thirds of the books in our pipeline), one - touch publishing in all formats (including
print -
on -
demand), and an interactive online reading platform that takes full advantage of the digital realm.