Indie publishers who take
advantage of POD technology have the ability to make — and change — their book marketing strategy at any time, giving them more flexibility when it comes to driving sales.
The advantage of POD is that people can buy your book online and the printer will ship it to them, and you simply get a check at some point.
Not exact matches
One additional
advantage of cowpeas is that the leaves and green
pods can be eaten before crop maturity.
UP's goal is to combine the high standards
of traditional publishers with the economic (and environmental)
advantages of the latest
POD book publishing technologies.
Everything you need to know about book distribution, including the
advantages and disadvantages
of expanded and print - on - demand (
POD) distribution.
If you choose to use the
Advantage Program (using a
POD other thank BookSurge), then you pay $ 29.95 a year to keep the book in print / stay a part
of the
Advantage Program, pay all shipping and handling to get the books to Amazon.com warehouses, plus Amazon.com still takes the usual 55 % from the sale price.
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.
One
advantage NY Trads have appears to be in the editing process (and
of course print distribution), however with
POD services the print distribution for a book can be as broad as ebook distribution.
Because they are a division
of Ingram, a book distribution company that has very successfully made the transition from a company that serviced print publishers to a company that now services the digital book industry, we feel that there are
advantages to being with LSI that you simply can not get with any other
POD publisher.
They don't realize that
POD is a relatively new technology for authors to take
advantage of, and offset was the default self - publishing method just a few years back.
Although even respawning itself can be used to your
advantage as a form
of attack, as you enter the battlefield in a drop
pod that can destroy enemy structures or even take out the opposition.
However
POD advantages include a wide selection
of papers or canvas, the print in various sizes, gallery wrap or framing, plus they collect payment, ship and handle any returns.
The designers say that an
advantage of the design is that it can be moved and reassembled in another part
of the city and the «
pods» given new themes to suit different occasions.
Office
pods are the new garden buildings and using one to extend your living space has the
advantage of providing a quiet pocket away from the main hubbub
of your main home.