UP combines the best of both worlds: the speed and economy
of POD book publishing, paired with the selectivity and standards of a traditional book publisher.
However, there is a downside to this in that it can add physical pages to your book and, as the author, the amount of money you get per sale
of your POD book depends on how many pages it has.
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.
I've given away way more copies than I've sold
of my POD book.
Bottom line, the trends favor indies, and I would venture to add that indies who assume more responsibility for their own distribution
of POD books will continue to do better than those who choose to go traditional.
We're running in the red — mostly because
of the POD book costs.
In a nutshell, over the last months since he re-designed the interiors
of my POD books, I'm now making money month after month.
In a nutshell it means that the average indie writer / producer
of a POD book will be flat out getting their money back.
The interior
of pod books are just fine and look like traditionally published books.
Because prices
of POD books are inherently expensive, it's good for authors to have the option of cutting their royalty temporarily or for a certain group of people in order to get exposure.
This was before the world
of POD books and e-books had really taken off, so it was definitely a move that garnered a, «what the heck are you doing?»
Not exact matches
Fund willingness to stomach slow starts in January to begin the year — especially in light
of the proliferation
of «tight stop» multi-managers with a massive institutional AUM concentration, and a
pod / center
book structure which exacerbates crowding — can «turn wrong - way fast» when CRO's become de facto heads
of trading into potential deleveraging.
The advantage
of POD is that people can buy your
book online and the printer will ship it to them, and you simply get a check at some point.
There's no secret handshake, but pockets full
of pods, some crazy chile t - shirt, or a Peppers
of the World
book worn - out by heavy studying are dead giveaways
of those fiery fans.
This chili variety out
of New Mexico holds Guinness
Book of World Record for the largest chili
pod ever grown!
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Apart from messaging, blogs and forums, this site contains a lot
of fun stuff that includes videos, video games,
pod casts, e —
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The Year
of the Bird had been printed by Lightning Source, a company that prints
books on demand for Ingram Content Group, a large
POD publisher and major
book distributor.
And you may have this as part
of fulfillment but even if someone uses
POD, they will need to have a quantity
of books printed and shipped to them so they have them on hand for
book signings, speaking events, conferences, etc..
According to Xlibris, the average
book sells 150 copies out
of which the author buys 100 for himself and the remaining 50 are split evenly between
books sold via the publishing service website and
books sold through the Ingram / Lighting Source worldwide distribution program (
POD).
To the extent that holding a
book, or being able to physically transfer contents in
book form, is important to an author, there are a wealth
of companies providing
POD services.
Okay, realize that if you have an internal business publication deadline, don't announce the exact date because it takes days for a
book to come live on Kindle and PubIt and Kobo and iBooks, a month
of time at least for any
POD with proofing, and such.
One
of the reasons bookstore owners may choose not to buy and sell
POD self - published
books has to do with the pressure they are feeling from online sellers.
Aside from not falling for the «we can assign you an ISBN» myth
of the
POD / Vanity / Subsidy publishers, selecting the right printer to print your
books is as important as any other decision you will make as a publisher.
And for an example
of what can be done, see Amazon's
book detail page for my
book POD for Profit.
Do you think any
POD Publisher would sell an ad in the Sunday New York Times if their payment for this ad came from the sale
of books sold?
Doing the print version through the KDP dashboard allowed me to set the price for the
book lower than I would have been able to if I went through Createspace or some
of the other
POD platforms.
POD simply doesn't work well for self - published fiction, because at the typical price
of a printed
book, few readers will take a chance on an unknown quantity.
Doing
POD books this way looks intriguing, but I'll need to get a better idea
of how it works.
By Ron Pramschufer, President, Self Publishing, Inc. - Helping Authors Become Publishers since 1995 Hundreds
of Print on Demand -
POD companies are willing to help with your
book, selling you a package with one
of their ISBNs, publishing your
book, and paying you a royalty on your
book sales.
Our CreateSpace width calculator is simple to use, and calculating the spine width
of your Amazon
POD book just takes seconds.
POD has allowed online retailers to sell virtually (no pun intended) every
book ever published without the expense
of maintaining large inventories.
Our goal is achieve the best
of both worlds: the speed and economy
of POD, combined with the kind
of quality and public exposure
of books more typical
of larger, mainstream publishers.
Think
of the
POD world — print - on - demand — one
book at a time (or when the order comes in).
Because the author never deals directly with the
POD company or knows where the
books are being printed, they remain unaware
of the difference between the actual fees charged by the
POD company and what the self - publishing company says is the printing charge, distribution fee, and the author royalty.As with any other product, the greater the number
of middlemen between the manufacturer and the consumer, the greater the price paid by the consumer.
Other recent developments in the
POD / self - publishing space include Amazon's merger
of Booksurge and CreateSpace; Lulu's adding 200,000 eBooks from traditional publishers to their platform; and Andrew Sullivan is self - publishing a
book via Blurb.
Here's a tip for anyone thinking
of using Lulu to
POD... Lulu uses Lightning Source to print their
books for them, so it's cheaper for the author himself to go straight to LS and bypass the middleman.
UP's goal is to combine the high standards
of traditional publishers with the economic (and environmental) advantages
of the latest
POD book publishing technologies.
The copy was easily identified as a Lightning
POD copy by the barcode tattooed on the last page
of the
book.
However, on their
POD page, they list the royalty for a 200 - page
book, paperback, at a retail price
of $ 10.99, to be $ 1.23.
Most
POD companies have a wide variety
of trim sizes for paperback
books printed in black & white or color.
To see the quality
of a
book, authors can ask their
POD company for samples.
Given the price
of POD Demand, this means
books bought at IR will simply Cost Too Much.
It's interesting to note that the chains and major houses who hooked up early on with
POD publishing services haven't done much that's noticeable in support
of the resulting
books.
Relieved
of the wasteful economics that can accompany the traditional publishing trade - such as overprinting, warehousing, remaindering, returns, etc. - the
POD - based
book industry
of the new millennium will be more efficient, more responsive to the specific interests and needs
of readers, greener and more focused on creativity rather than commercial factors alone.»
This Sunday's New York Times has a couple
of interesting letters in the
Book Review section, responding to Rachel Donadio's essay
of on
POD publishing.
One possibility is the Espresso
Book Machine, capable
of printing
POD trade paperbacks anwhere, including bookstores....
Not because the ads were bad or poorly designed, but the brick - and - mortar bookseller audience that reads them are predisposed against self - published
books, especially
POD like mine, due to the inability to return unsold copies and the inconvenience
of dealing with an individual publisher.
An author using a
POD company will have a smaller upfront investment with no need to print, warehouse, and ship hundreds or thousands
of books.
As a founder
of CreateSpace (now an Amazon.com company), we had developed a print - on - demand (
POD) infrastructure that provided global inventory - free fulfillment
of low velocity
books.