The talk comes in advance of the book's publication, but we've had a small
number of copies shipped directly from the press.
Big advances (in this sense meaning lots of orders in advance of the shipping date) drive up
the number of copies shipped, which is when publishers «count» the income for a book — when it is shipped from the warehouse.
Not exact matches
We can
ship utilizing your shipper
number with either UPS or Fed Ex but we require written and signed permission to do so and some form
of proof
of account ownership (faxed
copy of recent billing).
Since our last report that five million
copies of the game have
shipped in the three days since its launch, Capcom has announced that that
number has now grown to six million!
While units
shipped isn't the same figure as units sold, we know that the game sold 5 million
copies just over the course
of its opening weekend alone, so it's likely that the total
number of units sold is close to the
number of units that have
shipped.
For teachers who are endlessly making
copies of materials from a
number of sources, LuLu can help by consolidating everything, printing it, binding it and
shipping it.
Additional fees may be incurred for the purchase
of an ISBN
number with Bowker (for US Customers), account set up with Ingram Spark ($ 49 per setup or change) and for the purchase
of your book proof and any book
copies you want to use for marketing and sales purposes (costs vary per book but generally $ 4 - $ 6 +
shipping).
And offer a reasonable
number of giveaway
copies — three to five is enough to encourage people to enter because they'll have a good chance
of winning, but not so many that you'll be spending a fortune on print books or hours upon hours
shipping them out.
Before POD, a publisher had to predict what the demand for a particular book would be over time, then print, warehouse, and
ship the
number of copies they predicted could be sold.
Set thresholds: if less than x
number of copies are ordered by this date, it's $ 20 a volume
shipped, y
number, goes down to $ 17 dollars a
copy, over z, $ 15.
Often a bookstore will pay ahead and order a certain
number of copies because that savings in
shipping and a few percent higher in discount can make all the difference on staying alive.
When a retailer or customer places an order, the POD provider prints the exact
number of copies ordered and
ships them directly to the recipient.
Author
copies and
shipping can get expensive (and become a hassle at the post office) if you offer a large
number of prizes.
The next steps will include
shipping the
number of copies denoted in your publishing package, activating your web page, listing your book for sale on the internet.
THIS IS HUGE - a signed,
numbered HARD
COPY of «Iron Mountain»
shipped anywhere in the Continental United States!
Keep records
of your order, like the website, ad or catalog from which you ordered; the company's name, address and phone
number; any promises the company made about
shipping and when they were made; the date
of your order; and a
copy of the order form you sent to the company.
Still, the real test will come once both Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 have been around for a few weeks, but based on simple
numbers alone it seems as though Battlefield won't be taking the crown away from Call
of Duty yet, despite having sold an impressive five million
copies in its first week, exactly half
of the total ten million
copies which were
shipped out.
(Canada / Mexico orders, please add $ 26 extra to your pledge to cover
shipping for any
number of copies; international orders, add $ 47.)
The great thing for Nintendo here is the word sold, these are not
shipped numbers but actual sold
copies of the handheld to consumers.
Bandai Namco announced back on February 11 over 80,000
copies of the game were
shipped to Japan, so we expect that
number has only increased since then.
If you prefer this method, please email the
number of copies you would like to receive and the name and
shipping address to
[email protected].