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At BB eBooks, we provide the affordable solution to provide you with the right digital format, fast turnaround time, and reliable response in eBooks and POD books production.

But unlike other self - publishing companies (just compare your POD printing costs here with theirs), Mill City Press charges the street price for POD books, which allows you to set a more competitive retail price for your book.

Most Indie books are POD books and the cost of printing on demand puts considerable pressure on the retail price.

It appears that Amazon is putting POD books in a book box and allowing other vendors to sell them first at a less expensive price.

Almost every self - publishing company uses one of two printers for print - on - demand book printing, so it's easy to know what other publishers pay for POD books.

The worldwide release of this fine book that started as a POD paperback from UP provides objective evidence that POD books can achieve broad readership and appeal in the «major leagues» of publishing.

The above totals include at least 13 million annual print sales of non-expanded-distribution CreateSpace POD books by self - published authors, which Amazon does not include in the numbers they report to Nielsen Bookscan.

If so, I'd like to tell you about a new website called IndieBooksellers.com (IB), like Amazon.com for self - published and POD books.

As soon as your printer - ready files are uploaded, POD books are generally available for order at Amazon within 48 hours.

Do you represent any self - published / POD books?

The other room was for those selling NON-RETURNABLE BOOKS — both self - published authors and small press published authors with POD books.

POD books remove the need for expensive up - front costs of printing thousands of books and then warehousing them.

In case you weren't aware, Barnes & Noble retail stores are quite happy to stock and sell POD books by indie authors.

As a proud Australian author - publisher, I do not expect that online book retail partners like Booktopia and The Nile to not be listing POD books, or listing them at over-inflated prices!

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?»

POD books are particularly useful for niche books that have a high retail price but less sales opportunities like special academic books.

POD books currently have a higher unit cost than offset books, but I expect POD costs to come down and POD quality (especially of color illustrations) to go up.

or that despite the fact that POD books had to be ordered before they would be printed, Trafford were offering copies of it on both amazon.com and amazon.co.uk.

Penguin has just announced that they are joining On Demand Books» growing Espresso Book Machine (EBM) program and will soon offer some of the titles they publish as POD books.

Until now the major suppliers of POD have only offered gloss lamination, and «POD books» are sometimes recognized as such by the covers.

Unlike other Print On Demand providers, BookBaby uses the very same digital printing presses for their POD books as they do for their larger print runs.

(PSA: Please do not make your POD books returnable in the hopes that bookstores will buy them.)

You do avoid agent submissions and rejections and all of the tiny control details with a «traditional» publisher if you are fortunate to have your agent find one and yes, some POD books «make it big», but so does the chance of winning the lottery!

I established myself selling POD books outside of Starbucks and at trade shows.

In short, Publit is a service that makes it easier for every publisher — from the really small ones to the big houses — to reach readers with their eBooks and PoD books.

Until recently, that wasn't even possible with POD books.

Given the number of self - published authors out there, whether for POD books or eBooks, you need to stand out from the crowd.

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.

The interior of pod books are just fine and look like traditionally published books.

Part of the problem is that the covers on most POD books are 10 point stock, and 12 point really works better.

Self publishing authors can now arrange POD books if digital sales prove print copies would sell.

And that's not even counting that indie publishers, with some work and minor investment, can sell into the bookstores with POD books as I have been talking about.

Currently, many bookstores do not accept POD books due to the expense and many are not refundable.

I do not recommend the following investments: Broad, untargeted advertising (on any medium / channel) Press release blasts or any form of mass mailing and communication Buying friends, fans, or followers Physical review copy mailings, especially for POD books.

To the untrained eyed, POD books are nearly indistinguishable from those printed on a press.

In the old days, POD books were considered an inferior product.

Another reason is many POD books are poorly edited and designed.

I look around and people are putting their work up on Smashwords or making POD books, and I don't know how to do that.

Even though POD books are very expensive compared to those printed in the traditional way.

I use CreateSpace for my POD books.

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.

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.

They are just closing the CreateSpace e-store where readers could buy the POD books from.

My goal was to demonstrate that POD books don't have to have astronomical retail prices — at least, not if you publish with us.

In the future, I'm going to be talking a great deal about how to market your books, both electronic and POD books to bookstores.

When publishing POD books, many authors find that they can not afford to offer the full discount required to get the books into bookstores.

They're no longer marked as POD in the catalog, they're now returnable, and booksellers who are in good standing with the distributor and pay their bills on time can get POD books for a 42 - 46 % discount.

Plus some of the bigger online sellers list PoD books as unavailable or out of print!

POD books and eBooks can handle extra pages, images, color, fonts, and content without any cost (up to a certain point, and even with Kindle, it's marginal).