The cover can be finished in a gloss or matte lamination, with no effect
on book printing costs.
Not exact matches
Cost reductions may also come from deferring projects, choosing not to fill open positions and spending less
on printing pitch
books or brochures, another person said, asking not to be identified discussing internal deliberations.
My first
book was a
print on demand edition, but its total
cost put it way beyond reasonable level.
MARIS KREIZMAN That they've talked to publishers, that they have a price quote for how much it would
cost to
print x amount of
books... I often say that self - publishing is not something that you should really do
on your own.
The
cost of the
printed version of your
book will depend
on several factors.
Each month, the store, together with the community, selects one out - of -
print or unavailable novel and publishes it online and
on all the major digital
book platforms for little or no
cost.
The
print -
on - demand company you use to self - publish your
book will want its share of the sales revenue in order to cover
printing costs and turn a profit.
Other low -
cost book promotion strategies include:
printing business cards with your
book cover and title
printed on them, and handing them out to everyone.
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.
Copyediting, line editing, proofreading, formatting for publishing, formatting for
print, cover art, copyright registration, ISBN's, review copies, shipping and research
costs can all be budgeted
on a per
book basis.
Learn which factors influence
print -
on - demand (POD)
book printing costs, then get estimates for our POD
printing with our interactive
book printing calculator.
Free stuff is great, and free
books and comics are of course even better, but despite this it's worth pointing out that both the titles I mention above are much cheaper than buying a single issue
printed comic, let alone a graphic novel (a single issue of a monthly comic from Image may
cost up to # 3.95 GBP; but The Kill Screen was initially
on sale for half that at # 1.99 for # 1 and Mills released Psychokiller for # 2.49).
The group's application of new technologies and publishing
on demand reduced the
cost of publishing a
book to a fraction of what it had been for previous generations; authors now have the ability to publish a
book in as little as six weeks and
print as few as a single copy.
Hire a professional
book designer for both your ebook and
print edition layouts, which can
cost into the thousands of dollars depending
on the intricacy or complexity of your layouts.
That's not so easy when you can only
print your
book in short runs (or
on demand) while your competitor has thousands of copies
printed at once for a lower
cost per
book.
If you self - publish your $ 15
book (250 - page
book that
costs $ 3.85 to
print on Createspace), your profit margin is $ 11.15 when you hand - sell it direct to the consumer.
As an example, suppose your
print book sells for $ 13.99
on Amazon and the indie press's
cost to produce the
book is $ 3.50 each.
Robin Cutler [00:10:14] Pam, talk a little bit about, just to give our listeners an idea of what the unit
cost is for a typical
print -
on - demand
book.
$ 14.99 - $ 6.00 (40 % trade discount) $ 8.99 (net profit)- $ 3.25 (
print cost for
book sold
on Amazon) $ 5.74 (profit; royalty split depends
on publisher)
If the price of paper and ink and
printing costs were to go up, that would affect the pricing of the
book, but not the sweat
on the author's brow.
$ 14.99 - $ 8.24 (55 % trade discount) $ 6.75 (net profit)- $ 3.86 (
print cost for
book sold through third - party retailer) $ 2.89 (profit; royalty split depends
on publisher)
You won't be able to match traditionally published
books for price —
print on demand is much more expensive, and some of that
cost, unfortunately, has to get passed
on to the reader.
A 202 page 5 × 8
book with a black and white interior
on cream paper will
cost $ 3.27 to
print and $ 3.59 for standard 5 - day shipping.
My only income is through
book sales and as long as the
cost of the
book printing is covered then I can carry
on in this way.
And as Kris pointed out in her blog, with traditional big publishers switching over to electronic
books and more
print -
on - demand
books, they get out from under shipping and
printing and warehousing
costs, and that ugly return system gets cut down.
Once she wrote the
book, she looked for a
printing company, learning about page quality and
printing costs, which can exceed $ 5 a page, depending
on the cover, binding, color selection and size.
You have so far spent $ 20,000
on printing costs, and if all
books sell at retail, you have the potential for $ 200,000 in total sales.
They also act as the publisher's (your) printer,
printing as few or as many
books as you need at the lowest wholesale
cost based
on the volume of
books that you're purchasing.
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.
This is especially a problem when you are trying to control the length of your
book, which can help you control
print -
on - demand
costs (longer
books cost more to manufacture).
The only disadvantage to
print on demand is the
cost per
book is slightly higher, but that is offset by not requiring a minimum upfront order size and paying for extra storage.
To help offset the rising
cost of
print copies I have lowered the eBook price
on the first three Secret Watchers
books.
Minimum web quantities have lowered to the point that they meet the maximum
cost - effective quantity capable of being produced
on the digital press, thus eliminating the need for the sheet fed press for standard
book printing.
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.
Print books have a baseline price they can't drop below because of paper
costs, but there are no such restrictions
on ebooks.
There is more to the
cost of a
book the paper it's
printed on.
Paperight changed that by licensing the digital edition and allowing readers to purchase the
book via a lower
cost license, which the shop owner would then
print out
on the copiers and bind.
If Gutenberg allowed everyone to get
print books at little
cost, Project Gutenberg could allow everyone to get a library of electronic
books at no
cost on a cheap device like a USB drive.
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.
He went
on to say that
print books cost too much, especially when shipping and manufacturing
costs are considered.
Shipping
costs on print books depend
on where you live and how many
books you order.
With a title like «The Fine
Print of Self - Publishing: A Primer
on Contracts, Printing
Costs, Royalties, Distribution, Ebooks, and Marketing», Mark Levine's
book isn't the most sexy - sounding
book you'll ever read, but it might be one of the most influential.
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.
For our first season we'll be hitting big ticket topics such as a commentary
on the current publishing landscape, how to optimize your
book metadata for sales, how to sell your
book to indie bookstores, ebooks vs.
print books, and how much it
costs to self - publish.
Giveaways are only available for
print books — so you have to have copies of the
books printed (easy enough of you have it
on CreateSpace or another
print -
on - demand service), and you have to post the
book out, so there is the
cost of postage to consider.
That said, if you want to economize
on costs and time, the best product available to turn your Microsoft Word document into a professionally designed
print book is Joel Friedlander's Book Design Templates (bookdesigntemplates.c
book is Joel Friedlander's
Book Design Templates (bookdesigntemplates.c
Book Design Templates (bookdesigntemplates.com).
Independent publishers, you've already told us you love Pressbooks because it makes it so easy for you to generate
book files in the formats you need to publish in ebookstores and
print -
on - demand, for hundreds to thousands less than they would
cost you
Like a
print -
on - demand
book, there's no upfront
cost for inventory; product is generated when a customer places an order and you get a percentage.
Whereas in traditional publishing the first
book costs hundreds of thousands because there's a whole
print run, and then
on every single
book there are margins for the retailer, distribution, publisher, agent, and so
on — and if the
book doesn't sell out, there are further transport, warehouse, and pulping
costs.
Study everything, including going to one of the page and price calculators
on the
print sites and plug in page counts, pricing, trim size, and see your
costs and how much you can make per
book at certain sizes and page counts.