Sentences with phrase «book production costs»

The whole argument about ebook production costs being lower than print book production costs is a complete red herring.

Instead, he raised a whopping $ 91,154, a phenomenal amount for any contemporary poet that will earn him a tidy profit even after his Kickstarter rewards and book production costs are paid out.

• No book production costs.

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Steep hikes in world prices for black vanilla could mean higher production costs for premium ice cream makers, according to commodity analyst Mintec, which is advising ice cream producers to book their contracts for the spice now.

An article on the environmental impact of the production and disposal of millions of plastic and cloth diapers reveals the length to which corporations will go to ensure profit margins: couching advertisements in «scientific studies»; funding studies based on controversial methodologies; using unscientific statistical studies to cook the books on cost - benefit analyses of environmental damage; and employing shrewd, manipulative and effective public - relations strategies.

«The actual cost of production to the manufacturers is quite small,» notes George Kent, a professor of political science at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu and author of the forthcoming book «Regulating Infant Formula.»

«Even people who are highly educated and well off have a hard time getting children's books,» Pan said, citing low production and the high cost of books in the country.

In the short term, the migration from print to ePub3 was less about the books that more interactivities and accessible content, but was much more towards slicing the cost of production and delivery of the book across the wide range of devices like tablets and smartphones that modern readers were using.

Other major publishers may be content to reap record profits off the growth of ebook sales while paying authors practically nothing for digital books with far lower production and distribution costs, but we wouldn't feel right doing that.

Your print book should reflect the cost of production and distribution.

So keep that in mind when considering your book's production and price point; you want the book to look nice and fit in someone's purse / bag / backpack (and 6 × 9 is a little hefty for fiction books), but you also don't want your epic fantasy at 200 - thousand words to cost $ 20 to print at cost (the flat fee you pay simply for the materials, without the distributor's or your profits factored in yet).

You are right that production and distribution costs per unit are less for ebooks than for paperbacks, but authors have the same 2 % to 12.5 % earnings of the list price of the book.

Printing can be costly, but artwork and general production of our books still costs money.

If I print a million books (production cost $ 1 each) and sell half for $ 2 ($ 1 profit), but have the other half stolen ($ 1 loss), I make no money at all.

It's well known that much of the cost of a book is not in the production method of books, which modern industrial practices has made so very cheap, and instead is decided by other market factors.

Once I learned how do to this myself, I shaved off $ 100 per book in my production cost.

I recently interviewed an up - and - coming steampunk author who raised over $ 90,000 to fund the production costs of his book (his original goal was $ 4,000, so, even after he produces and ships all those books, he ought to have come out of the deal with a year's salary in addition to whatever he makes on sales once the book goes live).

You pay for all production costs, which are typically editing, cover design, and formatting your book for e-books (and optionally print books).

Taking into account production and marketing costs, as well as the time you've spent writing this book, how many copies do you need to sell before you start making a profit?

Well, that money will have to come from something other than marginal cost of production... probably either author advance, or by publishing fewer books by more marginal authors (those who sell less than 20,000 copies).

The decision came at some cost to the publisher, since the book is already well into production and goes on sale September 29.

Koehler Books will provide a line - item estimate detailing all costs for pre-publication work, along with a comprehensive publishing contract detailing royalties, term, production requirements, and other legal details.

While this is, of course, a very desirable development as it cuts down on production costs and increases revenues, I soon found that it also changed the way I had to approach the presentation of my books.

As an indie author, it's significantly cheaper to pay for copy - editing of a shorter novel, and the production costs of printing the final books are also more affordable.

The marginal cost of production is not the primary thing driving book costs, whether ebook or otherwise.

Clearly the expectation that ebooks should cost a lot less than paper copies of the books because of lower marginal costs of production doesn't match the reality that marginal cost of production really IS marginal even for paper books.

The author incurs all the costs of production and Book View Café donates the expertise of its members to help produce and market the bBook View Café donates the expertise of its members to help produce and market the bookbook.

Production and shipping costs, which are huge parts of the cost of making books, are eliminated.

After that, from copy 76 and beyond, we pay a royalty of 30 % of the book's list price — well above the traditional publisher's average of 10 % — 17.5 %, and nearer the self - publisher's return after printing and production costs.

I'm put off by the price of most poetry books, as even though the page count is typically low, the bulk of the production cost is consumed by the setup and cover costs.

The traditional publishers pay for book production, but then expect the author to pay back those costs from his or her royalties.

In this case, the publisher reviews your manuscript, and if selected, they will share the costs of publishing, production, and marketing of your book with you.

Easypress Technologies CEO James Macfarlane said that Book Publishing in the Cloud has already been working with HarperCollins UK, allowing the publisher to avoid completely outsourcing physical typeset production to a third party and generating a «50 % savings in direct costs and dramatically reducing the time to publish for both print and digital products.»

Whether digital or paper, there are many costs invloved in the production of a book — just like any other product out there.

To keep projects on schedule and to control the production costs for fixed price design projects, Elegant Book Design has allowed for a limited amount of time for refining a design into the finished artwork.

And the info about paper costs being fractional to book production comes from several trade press sources, though I don't have the links to hand, so please treat it as anecdotal.

However, since traditional publishers own the means of mass production for print books, their per - unit costs are lower than mine, which means they can offer a print edition for less than I can.

Everything from the finished size of the book to the number of color pages can affect your production costs.

CreateSpace, for instance, won't let you sell your books at a price that doesn't cover the production cost.

So, the book industry is basically saying they'd prefer to proceed in the more generally accepted capitalist format: you charge a lot up front to recoup initial marketing or R&D or production costs, and the price diminishes over time — or, as I think will be the case with e-books, you charge too much at first, figure out no one's going to buy the darn things at 15 balloons, and settle in at $ 9.99 within a few years.

We offer quality production of video promotional material and book trailers, for a reasonable cost.

I am responsible for the production costs of the ebook and the print book and will self - publish the book on Amazon, Kobo and any country specific sites

They've written to market, have 10 (or more) books out (and they're good, follow tropes, etc) have great blurbs, great covers, a big mailing list, a free reader magnet, and use thousands of dollars in advertisement when the book releases, yet they still don't come close to making a living (most only make a few hundred dollars after production costs).

But they will let you sell the book at a price that covers production cost without turning you any profit, if you really want to.

It's important to decide on a suitable trim size earlier on in your book production as it's required to determine such things as; the cost to print and ship it and how many pages it might have.

The goal is to keep your production costs as low as possible without compromising the quality of the book.

You state that «the money that goes into a book is dominated by acquisition costs, editorial costs, production costs, layout and design, art, marketing and business overhead.

This assumption ignores sunk costs in book acquisition and production, as well as ongoing royalties to authors.

All hardcopy books must be printed, and all printers also earn a «profit» on the production cost of a book.

The money that goes into a book is dominated by acquisition costs, editorial costs, production costs, layout and design, art, marketing and business overhead.