Sentences with phrase «digital warehousing costs»

For instance Steve Zacharius, who deserves credit for at least engaging, talked about digital warehousing costs and that they weren't insignificant.

Not exact matches

I've got a thousand or more copies of that book in my warehouse that I have to sell through before I can do another print run — and I need to decide if sales are strong enough to warrant another thousand or more books, or if I need to go to a small digital print run, in which case, I might need to raise the price (because small print runs cost more per unit than large ones, and I have to offer my distributor a 65 % discount as per our contract).

Textbook publishers will always have overhead costs (they must still compensate authors, editors, typesetters / designers, proofreaders, indexers, etc.), but the costs associated with physically printing, binding, warehousing, and shipping the book are eliminated when going digital.

A senior research fellow of the Society for New Communications Research and a board member of the Independent Book Publishers Association, serving thousands of publishers across North America and around the world, Danny Snow admits that e-Books solve serious problems in traditional publishing: overprinting; the cost of shipping books back and forth between warehouses and stores during a time of climbing fuel prices and growing focus on air quality; and the bad bookstore practice of over-ordering, then returning unsold books are all eliminated by digital distribution.

As for digital storage and warehousing costs, we're calling bullsh ** on that one.

Digital formats or eBooks currently have high profit margins and are not hindered by the archaic system of print which has economic problems based on cost of production, distribution and warehousing.

That's not all digital, some of that is print with manufacturing and warehousing and shipping costs associated with the revenue.

You may recall, at the London Book Fair Digital Conference this year, there was palpable eye - rolling in the room when agent Ed Victor asked why, if there are no warehousing costs, no manufacturing costs, no distribution costs, and no bookshop returns, did agents have to drag publishers kicking and screaming to 25 % of net receipts?

one blog post comes to mind that attempted to claim almost 1/3 of the cost of ebooks was related to «digital warehousing».

I don't like the «cost» logic: «a digital book that publishers don't have to print, warehouse, ship, and have returned to them».