Chosen as the leading print
on demand book publisher among self - publishing companies.
Formatting for CreateSpace — a popular
on demand book publisher — requires that outside margins be at least 1⁄4 inches, and inside (or gutter) margins should range from.375 inches for smaller books, to 1 inch for larger books.
Not exact matches
Earlier this year a
publisher in Beijing decided to capitalize
on the Chinese
demand for all things Buffett and translate a
book Peter had written in 2010, titled Life Is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment.
While not captured by current antitrust doctrine, the pressure Amazon puts
on publishers merits concern.285 For one, consolidation among
book sellers — partly spurred by Amazon's pricing tactics and
demands for better terms from
publishers — has also spurred consolidation among
publishers.
Then
on Thursday, as the White House struggled to contain the fallout from the
book, a lawyer for the president sent a letter
demanding Wolff and his
publisher, Henry Holt & Co, «immediately cease and desist from any further publication, release or dissemination», or excerpts and summaries of its contents.
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.
Amazon wants
publishers to let them use print
on demand with the slower selling
books.
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.
Unlike the large print runs ordered by conventional
publishers, my
publisher's
books were printed as needed:
on demand.
And don't ever reject a small
publisher who is interested in publishing your
book when you find out they use print
on demand.
As I understand it, most self - published print -
on -
demand titles are non-returnable, as are some
books by smaller
publishers.
Publishers Weekly and the Bologna Children's
Book Fair kicked off their Global Kids Connect Breakfast series on January 25 with an event that focused on the rapid growth in the audiobook industry as a result of evolving technologies and increasing demand for new ways of consuming children's book cont
Book Fair kicked off their Global Kids Connect Breakfast series
on January 25 with an event that focused
on the rapid growth in the audiobook industry as a result of evolving technologies and increasing
demand for new ways of consuming children's
book cont
book content.
While HarperCollins, like several other
publishers before it, has been gunning for an agency pricing model in which the
publisher sets the price of its
books and basically forbids discounting
on the part of the retailer, Amazon has long dug its heels in and refused to budge with the
publishers in terms of its
demand for a wholesale model.
Ingram
Publisher Services will support both
publishers with Ingram's CoreSource ® and MyiLibrary ® platforms for e-
book distribution and Lightning Source ® for
on -
demand book manufacturing.
RosettaBooks will use Ingram's full - service
publisher solutions, including comprehensive sales, print -
on -
demand book manufacturing and global distribution to publish and distribute physical
books to readers worldwide.
So assuming those are pro rates for getting your
book edited, covered, formatted, and distributed as ebook and print
on demand, the questions you should ask yourself is IF a
publisher is asking for $ 800 up front from you are: — is the percentage they take of your work going to equal more than that other $ 800?
Ingram
Publisher Services is currently handling distribution for the press in the U.S. and Canada with integrated e-
book distribution through Ingram's CoreSource ® platform, and print -
on -
demand book manufacturing and fulfillment though Ingram's Lightning Source ® solution.
The examples below, to cite just a few, prove that print -
on -
demand books can be competitive with those from major conventional
publishers.
Having mass market distribution of print
books is also a factor, but I believe in the next few years we'll see opportunities for independent
publishers to also distribute print
books on a larger scale than print
on demand.
Ingram's alliance with EE Media gives
publishers access to high - quality, print -
on -
demand book manufacturing and established relationships with the leaders in online, chain and independent booksellers and distributors in Russia and the former Soviet Union.
The move is a result of Amazon's
demand for upfront payment from
publishers, required to host their
books on the store.
When writers decide to self - publish eBooks and / or POD (print
on demand)
books, it quickly becomes clear what they are giving up by not going with a traditional
publisher.
Ingram
Publisher Services will support both
publishers with Ingram's Lightning Source ®
on -
demand book manufacturing and will support Clovercroft Publishing's e-
book distribution initiatives with Ingram's CoreSource ® digital asset management platform.
This
book gives you a solid background in typography, page layout, and
book design while providing you with the latest instruction
on the creation of
on -
demand books for the best providers (print, ePUB, and Kindle) used by the new generation of self -
publishers in the 21st century.
One of the problems with print -
on -
demand is it allows
publishers to keep
books in print indefinitely when availability is the only test.
Books Just
Books is not a Print
On Demand publisher; instead, they are a
book printer, first and foremost.
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.
Traditional
publishers build their business around the typical sales curve of a print
book: put a lot of copies
on bookstore shelves, see what sells in the first 90 days, and deal with returns and marginal ongoing
demand on most titles.
Many of the vanity
publishers are rip - offs or scams, especially when charging a huge fee for boxes of printed
books instead of print -
on -
demand (which Amazon's CreateSpace offers).
Long before Print
On Demand technologies made the scene, self
publishers had few options for short run
books.
Since then, computer programs that enable
publishers to prepare
books for printing entirely
on computers, coupled with the rise of print -
on -
demand (POD) technology, mean that the publishing process can be much less costly than it used to be.
He figured he could just as easily do what his
publisher was doing — publishing the
books electronically and using print -
on -
demand.
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.
Ship
On -
Demand (SOD)- The shipping out of
books as requested by the
publisher.
In this case the agent and author worked together to find Greenpoint Press, a dedicated
publisher utilizing print -
on -
demand technology to publish important
books that might be overlooked by the big commercial presses.
Publishers in Russia will benefit from the deal as they will have access to «high - quality, print -
on -
demand book manufacturing and established relationships with the leaders in online, chain and independent booksellers and distributors in Russia and the former Soviet Union,» as stated in the press release.
Demand for Laura Ingalls Wilder's real - life story of growing up
on the prairie outstripped supply, according to the
book's
publisher, the South Dakota Historical Society Press.
After working with a print -
on -
demand publisher on her first title, agents and editors refused to even look at the
book, still clinging to the stigma that initially marked self - published titles.
This will allow
publishers to print new
books on demand in less then 48 hours and then them through a domestic distribution network.
Under this strategy, Amazon decides that it will
demand no more discount than offered to any other vendor, for any purpose *; it will do everything in its power to meet author and indendent
publisher demands; and it will send a bouquet and basket of puppies to midlist authors who place their out - of - print
books on Kindle, in addition to the royalties due (and a holiday bonus).
One thing to check out is how good any print -
on -
demand paperback
publisher is at keeping your
book «in stock» with Amazon.
There will be shorter initial print runs with quick follow - up runs if a
book sells well, print on demand services will thrive (could we possibly see an Espresso Book Machine leased by publishers to booksellers so they can make a book while you wait... I hope
book sells well, print
on demand services will thrive (could we possibly see an Espresso
Book Machine leased by publishers to booksellers so they can make a book while you wait... I hope
Book Machine leased by
publishers to booksellers so they can make a
book while you wait... I hope
book while you wait... I hope so!)
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.
Same with Whiskey Creek Press, which is a traditional
publisher who uses print -
on -
demand technology to produce their
books.
Kristen Steele, Baker & Taylor
Publisher Services Phone: 567-215-0030 Email BTPS offers economical solutions for warehousing and order fulfillment, sales and marketing support, inventory management, virtual inventory programs, editorial services, and
book manufacturing including offset, digital short run, and print -
on -
demand (POD).
Any self - publishing author, and any small press, can make their
books available to be ordered or purchased in the same retailers as a Big Five
publisher if they're willing to use print -
on -
demand technology.
That's why it's easy to know what other
book publishers pay for print -
on -
demand book printing.
Instead, I'm going to weigh in
on this ongoing hooplah about Amazon.com making a business decision that no small or self -
publisher wants to hear: that print -
on -
demand books sold through Amazon must use Amazon's subsidiary, BookSurge, rather than relying
on the industry standard, Lightening Source.
Brooke Warner, the author of Green Light Your
Books and board member of IBPA (Independent Book Publishers of America) says, «I advise authors with [print - on - demand books] never to specify how their books were printed [when they are] talking to book buyers, event hosts, booksellers, conference organizers or librarians...&r
Books and board member of IBPA (Independent
Book Publishers of America) says, «I advise authors with [print - on - demand books] never to specify how their books were printed [when they are] talking to book buyers, event hosts, booksellers, conference organizers or librarians...&ra
Book Publishers of America) says, «I advise authors with [print -
on -
demand books] never to specify how their books were printed [when they are] talking to book buyers, event hosts, booksellers, conference organizers or librarians...&r
books] never to specify how their
books were printed [when they are] talking to book buyers, event hosts, booksellers, conference organizers or librarians...&r
books were printed [when they are] talking to
book buyers, event hosts, booksellers, conference organizers or librarians...&ra
book buyers, event hosts, booksellers, conference organizers or librarians...»
Self -
publishers can race their
books to market much faster than traditional
publishers can, particularly if they're producing ebook and print -
on -
demand books only.