None are compatible with the others, so investigate
the cost of pods when looking at coffee machines.
That figure is going up though as
the cost of POD is coming down.
The higher per - unit
costs of a POD book means that I have to price the book higher than the industry standard for a book of this kind in order to make a net profit.
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.
In my experience with PoD vendors,
the cost of a PoD cover is always the same — doesn't matter how saturated the colors are.
Not exact matches
Put all the
pods together, and you have a low -
cost transit system that can transport up to 8,000 passengers per hour in a single direction, said 2getthere, the Dutch maker
of the
pods.
After skewering the proposed system («one
of the most expensive per mile and one
of the slowest in the world»), Musk issued an open - source design challenge: a 28 - passenger solar - powered
pod capable
of levitating through a system
of tubes almost at the speed
of sound, with a one - way ticket price
of $ 20 and a total building
cost estimated at $ 6 billion, less than a tenth
of the budget for California's high - speed rail project.
The majority
of the work we do at Pea
Pod is focused on offering free or low -
cost nutrition and lactation support and education to mother's and children in our community.
Even the highest quality single - sourced organic coffees don't usually
cost this much, and many
of us pay that for low - grade, plastic and aluminum coated, environment wrecking
pods!
Of course they are convenient, but with as little coffee that is in each pod, a pound of coffee would cost over $ 5
Of course they are convenient, but with as little coffee that is in each
pod, a pound
of coffee would cost over $ 5
of coffee would
cost over $ 50!
Given the price
of POD Demand, this means books bought at IR will simply
Cost Too Much.
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).
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.
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.
The two largest
POD services in the world are IngramSpark and CreateSpace, both
of whom provide comparable products at similar
costs.
With
POD, predictive ordering and the
cost of warehousing is removed from the book publishing equation.
Our relationship with Lightning Source has consistently yielded significant revenues on sales we wouldn't have realized without Lightning's
cost effective package
of POD services.
We're running in the red — mostly because
of the
POD book
costs.
However, I drifted to Createspace.com because it was more
cost effective in terms
of POD (print on demand) and I was able to get royalty
costs more efficiently.
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.
«From speaking to executives at LSI and asking if there is any possibility in the future that the
costs of producing
PODs might come down, they have told me that there are developments that they can not currently discuss that make them hopeful that the prices will come down.»
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.
Lightning Source has countered that
cost in a deal with EPAC, one
of the largest
POD suppliers in Germany.
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!
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.
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.
These setup
costs shaped the economics
of printing prior to
POD.
Perhaps the most
cost - effective way
of selling physical copies on a small scale, self - publishing authors commonly use what's called a print - on - demand (
POD) service.
For large numbers
of copies, the per - unit
costs for
POD are higher than for press printing.
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).
There are some
POD services that are free or come at low
cost, but some will set you back from a few hundred to thousands
of dollars.
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).
When you add in the
cost of warehousing, distribution and the working capital tied up in inventory
POD has becomes the optimal choice for more midlist titles.
Most
of these books are in sizes unavailable from the main
POD suppliers, and the same problems
of reproduction quality and
cost make them impractical.
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).
POD books currently have a higher unit
cost than offset books, but I expect
POD costs to come down and
POD quality (especially
of color illustrations) to go up.
Createspace is
POD, Amazon could offer authors to purchase a package
of their works at our price point, and then fill their shelves selling them at their online
cost.
Most
of the
POD improvements they have been seeing are in quality and speed
of printing, not in
cost.
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.
You use one
of the easy
POD methods
of self - publishing that require next to nothing in up front
costs
Really, does anyone believe the shipping and storage
costs are the same now, in this day
of POD, as it was when huge print runs were made and then the publishers sat with fingers crossed because they didn't have pre-order numbers to judge off
of?
The calculator above and the explanations below will give you a better understanding
of what influences
POD printing
costs, which are based on the options and pricing
of the
POD printer Mill City Press works with (one
of two major
POD printers).