DiggyPOD is a great source for printing ARCs since our machines make it easy to
print small quantities of books.
In other words, they have a printing structure that will
print small quantities of your book for cheap as you need them.
Not exact matches
For relatively
small quantities of goods, 3 - D
printing could be cheaper, since it eliminates the costs associated with the tooling, casting, and molds required to churn out most metal and plastic objects.
Creating
print versions of your books is easy and affordable now that
print - on - demand venues enable you to
print in
small quantities.
While I wholeheartedly believe every word above concerning the first
printing, it has always bothered me that I wasn't able to offer
smaller quantities on reprints.
Costs for
printing books will be slightly higher in Case 2 because a
smaller quantity of books is being ordered.
You now have a book you can get in Kindle and other ebookstores, have
printed on demand in
small quantities and make available as a download on your website.
Digital
printing: Digital
printing is better if you want
smaller quantities and if your book is a standard size.
In reality, printers who list themselves as POD printers rarely will
print less than 20 copies and then you pay a pretty hefty setup making the unit cost on
small quantities impossible to sell in the marketplace.
Literary fiction traditionally sells in
smaller quantities: but even so, will usually have a
print run of over 1,000 copies even here, in the UK: in the USA, the numbers are proportionately larger.
Since our
Print on Demand machines were made to produce
small quantities and large
quantities alike, we can easily accommodate galley proof orders.
Unless you are talking
small print runs the cost of physically producing a book is less than a dollar (assuming a paperback best seller
quantity of course).