They don't use paper or ink, and the books themselves don't take nearly as much energy to
produce as printed books, so one could argue that e-books are more eco-friendly than bound books.
BookBaby is an almost - full - service publishing services provider — they'll take your manuscript and, for a fee,
produce it as a print book (with a professionally designed cover) and / or as an ebook.
Not exact matches
This 9 page
produce comes with a variety of mini posters for students to glue in their own
books, larger full size posters to be hung around the room for reference and one simple poster that can be exported,
printed on a poster printer, or changed its output to be hung
as a large poster in the classroom.
As a result the participants will
produce a
book (available in
print and digital formats) of worked examples that model effective mathematical habits of mind.
I really can't understand how anyone can imagine it costs
as much to
produce an e-
book as it does to
print a physical
book.
My first published
book, I
produced as a chapbook which I
printed on my computer and sold for five dollars.
I have professionally
produced books for digital and
print platforms that look
as good or better than many I see from traditional publishers.
Experts agree that the cost of
producing an e-
book will never be
as high
as the
print, paper, and binding costs of a
print book.
If the files pass inspection a proof of the interior
as well
as a proof of the cover or jacket will be
produced on the same press on which the full
book run will be
printed.
As long as I'm writing to you, I'd love to offer your authors my services to produce the audiobook of their Kindle and / or print boo
As long
as I'm writing to you, I'd love to offer your authors my services to produce the audiobook of their Kindle and / or print boo
as I'm writing to you, I'd love to offer your authors my services to
produce the audiobook of their Kindle and / or
print book.
In 2013 the traditional
book selling industry in the US
produced 304,912
print titles that were distributed to bookstores such
as Barnes and Noble or
Books - a-Million.
With DPA you submit and order your digital
print titles online and softcover
books are
produced in
as little
as two working days and hardcover
books are
produced in five working days.
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.
Australian self - publishing guru Emily Craven, of E-
Book Revolution, has made a wonderful video that explains how she used Pressbooks to
produce the PDFs she needed to get her
book into a
Print - on - Demand service, meaning that her
books are not just available
as ebooks, but
as paper
books too.
While our authors get all the quality publishing services needed to
produce print as well
as e-
books, they also maintain their own copyright and thus, ownership of their little
books.
Because the technology now exists to
produce books at the same quality
as offset
printing with digital means,
book printers can offer any author the opportunity to create their
books.
(If you plan to
produce a
print book as well
as an e-
book, have a back cover and spine designed
as well.)
With affordable
printing that leaves room to profit, get distribution and work with professionals such
as editors, cover designers and formatters to
produce a
book that rivals any trade published
book.
However, digitally
printed books are more expensive to
produce per
book than
books printed on a press,
as there is no cost saving for
printing in quantity.
Brilliance Audio will also be
producing an audiobook, which will be released at the same time
as the
print book.
Small presses, a category that is defined
as publishers who have
produced 10 or fewer
books, accounted for 34,107 self - published titles — 21,256
print and 12,851 e-
books — in 2011.
Just
as children's
print books are costly to
produce and therefore come at a higher price than most adult
books, children's interactive app
books require an entire team of programmers and designers, let alone the author who had to write the story in the first place.
If the cost of
producing the academic
book actually lies in the compensation to the author, plus the additional cost of
producing a digital version with enhancements — such
as the bar exam prep's forty - plus hours of embedded video lecture from noted law professors — how can publishers continue to make a profit on a
book that costs a fraction of the
print edition?
Print - on - demand publishing, or POD, is a method of
book printing that uses digital technology to make it easy and cost - effective to
produce books as they are ordered, either one at a time or in large numbers.
As with the Panda update, Internet Marketers will scream, but for readers and authors
producing print books and quality Kindle
books, it will help differentiate our stuff from the sea of PLR drek.
Most poets self - publish their poems
as a chapbook — a smaller
book, normally around 25 to 60 pages, well - suited for smaller
print runs and more affordable to
produce.
According to those same publishers, et al, it costs
as much to
produce an e-
book as it does a
print book.
You can
produce a
print book and an eBook entirely for free and without a literary agent but,
as already stated, you need to do all of the leg work.
Additionally, the
printing of only one or a few titles at a time with pod (for example with the CreateSpace» presses because they told me this) does not allow for the dialing down of tolerances with the machines that can
produce the same quality
book after
book as occurs with offset
printing.
o Although paperback is offered
as an alternative for you to conveniently publish a
print version of your digital
book, we do not recommend you let automated conversion software handle your manuscript at this stage because of the results it may
produce.
However, these are exceptions
as tradition dictates that a
book be launched in the
print format and later if the author wishes an electronic version is
produced.
Amazon.com owns BookSurge, a
print - on - demand operation that
produces and distributes
books for
as little
as $ 3.50 per copy.
(Our
Print On Demand
books are exactly the same
as the
books we
produce for our larger runs.)
The Big 5 hasn't come to the realization that their customer base is not so foolish that they can't figure out that it doesn't cost nearly
as much to
produce an e-
book as it does a
print book.
If you're planning on self - publishing your
book, you'll find the following especially useful,
as they will help you quickly earn - back the money you've invested
producing and
printing the initial copies of your
book.
But more than that, the reading public can look at an e-
book and realize that it doesn't cost anywhere close to
produce it
as it does to
produce a
print book.
Back in the early days of Amazon allowing indies to publish for the Kindle and the Big 5 (then the Big 6) doing their best to not crush indies but to also pull Amazon to heel, one of the CEOs of a Big 6 publisher tried telling everyone it cost
as much to
produce an e-
book as it did a
print book.
Included in its pages are lavishly
produced books with unconventional formats and unusual
print techniques
as well
as less flamboyant publications
produced for various different markets.
«In this context the Unit Editions approach can be seen
as a small statement of their intent,» Richard Marston told me, «
as they only
produce books in
print.»
I
produce paperbacks for 99 % of my
books, the only exception being the collection of first chapters of my novels, a perma - free sampler which would be at cross purposes
as a more expensive
print version.
«The small publishers and Bowker's research arm reports, «The number of self - published
books produced annually in the United States has nearly tripled, growing 287 percent since 2006, tallying more than 235,000
print and «e» titles
as of the end of 2011.»
Also
produce a
printed version of the
book so you can hand a physical
book to clients
as well.
Output your
book as a PDF — this can be used directly to typeset the
printed version — and
as an RTF file, which can be edited in LibreOffice, OpenOffice or similar to
produce the text for your ebook versions.
Amazon has also locked up several big authors to publishing contracts, and though it says it will
produce their
books in
print as well
as digital formats, that has competing retailers nervous.
In addition, the e-book revolution has not yet hit children's
books as hard, and you can't
produce such inexpensive
books with
print on demand.
When that happens, it will be another nail in the coffin of the traditional publishing houses. I laugh when they say that the cost of
producing ebooks is the same
as print books ignoring the cost of paper and shipping while pointing out the cost of things like cover designs.
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As the world's first platform for creating,
printing and publishing independent
books, Blurb has been a publishing trailblazer since 2006, helping self - publishing authors
produce over 2 million
books.
Self - published
books,
as well
as those from independent publishers
producing five or fewer titles per year, in
print or e - formats in any genre are eligible for entry.
The number of self - published
books produced annually in the U.S. has nearly tripled, growing 287 percent since 2006, tallying more than 235,000
print and «e» titles
as of the end of 2011.