If
your wholesale cost per book is so high that it makes it difficult to sell at a competitive price, it may be worth considering republishing through a less expensive publisher (CreateSpace for black and white interior or Ingram Spark for color interior).
Not exact matches
For instance: say after the
book is sold and the
wholesale discount and printing
cost is taken out of the sale, that you are left with $ 4.00
per book sold.
While Create Space recently began offering the option to list your
book in
wholesale catalogues used by U.S. libraries and booksellers, there is no easy or practical way to get your Create Space
book listed on Amazon's international sites or in wholesaler
books or wholesaler catalogues used outside the U.S. Lulu offers a global distribution option for a fee, but Lulu's
per copy production
costs are so high that I don't recommend using them.
Subtract your print
cost of $ 4.28 and you wind up with a profit of $ 3.49
per book — which is clearly preferable to the direct
wholesale option that earns you $ 1.55
per book.
The author gets $ 2.23 revenue /
per book (
Wholesale Price minus the Print
Cost).