Plus when you factor in the horrendously
high cost of print books in New Zealand....
The high cost of printing your book POD keeps you out of the bookstore system, whether or not you are self published.
Not exact matches
In our
book, The Gen Z Effect, my co-author Dan Keldsen and I talk about how 3D
printing is creating an entirely new model for hacking the
high cost of manufacturing and creating a manufacturing renaissance for entrepreneurs.
Experts agree that the
cost of producing an e-
book will never be as
high as the
print, paper, and binding
costs of a
print book.
The unit
cost of a
print - on - demand
book is fairly
high, but the risk is zero because you don't
print it until you've sold it.
That may change as more so - called digital natives progress into
higher education and as ebook reader technology gets better, but for now, 60 %
of students would rather pay for a low -
cost printed book than use a free digital version.
I'll buy
print books from Booktopia because
of the reduced postage and waiting time, but I refuse to buy anything from bricks and mortar retailers because the
cost of even a bog ordinary paperback is so
high.
Costs for
printing books will be slightly
higher in Case 2 because a smaller quantity
of books is being ordered.
With the incredible tools available through digital publishing, the
cost to purchase and give away the ebook for the individuals who fund raised could have been negligible compared to the
cost of a
print edition (note: unfortunately, the publisher has set the ebook edition price
of this title at $ 9.99,
higher than the $ 8.52 per
print copy that the protest organizers spent through Rediscovered
Books).
The prime cause
of this
high expense is that the
books have over 350 pages and the longer the
books, the more expensive the
print costs.
While a
print edition might
cost $ 10 with a 7 % tax, a digital edition
of the same
book would also
cost $ 10, but be taxed as
high as 19 %.
When
print - on - demand was first introduced, the the unit
cost (the
cost per
book)
of printing just one
book at a time was far
higher with
print - on - demand than it was for a
print run
of thousands.
From what I've heard from textbook publishers, digital editions are NOT going to be cheaper than
print counterparts (unlike with trade
books, for example) because the
high cost of the textbook is supposedly in the paying
of the authors.
Also, depending on the specifications
of our
book, such as number
of pages or a color or black - and - white interior, Kerry's note about Amazon's
costs for
printing being
higher might not apply for sales within Amazon's system.
Established in 2012, we are an indie press with the goal
of providing
high - quality, low -
cost, highly accessible electronic and
print books for anyone...
Bestsellers have a far
higher profit margin because
of the set
costs such as staff and overhead are factored over a lot more
books than a 5,000 copy
print run
of a small
book.
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!
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).
I have usually recommended that color
book authors create proofs with Blurb and
print elsewhere because
of the
high cost...
So is
higher cost per
book, plus loss
of KDP Select benefits a price the author wishes to pay to possibly get their
print editions in B&N stores after a sufficient period
of time selling ebook editions through B&N Nook?
However, there are lower profits per
book as
printing costs are
higher than bulk
printing, but the benefits
of not spending the money up front often outweigh this.
The glut
of high - quality low -
cost ebooks will get worse - In the old days
of print publishing, the number
of books in circulation was artificially constrained by the production output
of traditional publishers, and by the shelf space available at brick and mortar retailers.
This growth occurred despite the loss
of numerous brick - and - mortar stores in 2012 and a lower
cost for e-
books than
print books, which translated to
higher quantities
of e-
books sold.»
Unjustifiably
high for SOME ebooks... With an e-book, there's no
printing, no over-
printing, no need to forecast, no returns, no lost sales due to out
of stock, no warehousing
costs, no transportation
costs, and there is no secondary market — e-
books can not be resold as used
books.
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