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A Vision of Good Things to Come |
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Print-On-Demand Book PublishingMy wishful vision for things to come in the future is to have it become a widely accepted fact that Print-On-Demand is a cost-effective method for publishing books. POD is a new book publishing concept that gives the author complete control over their book and it’s unfortunate that uninformed professionals mistakenly refer to publishers utilizing POD systems as being nothing more than another subsidy book publisher or a vanity house. There are big differences.
Those uneducated about the many differences unknowingly put POD in that same category as subsidy book publishers that charge their authors a fee to offset the cost publishing their book. One difference is subsidy book publishing costs an author in the neighbor of $15,000 to publish their book and could take 6 months to a year to produce the book. The Infinity setup charge to add an author’s book into our POD system is $499—that’s a big difference of $14,501, and our authors usually have their proof copies in hand in 6 to 8 weeks. The author isn’t paying to publish their book, their customers ordering books from Infinity via www.buybooksontheweb.com or through bookstores are paying for publishing the books. POD books are produced to fill the demands created by orders and are shipped directly to the purchasers. Those authors self-publishing with anal offset press run have cartons of unsold books stored in their homes. I’ve been told 6 cartons makes a great coffee table that’s about a $5,000 conversation piece. Please help us to educate folks by sharing your experience as an Infinity author with anyone who asks you about POD publishing. Thanks for helping. |
