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The Print Book Trade, and Money

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Re: The Print Book Trade, and Money

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The first publisher costs to get cut in this scenario are the copyeditor and proofreader. This is a rudimentary but still fair description of the basic process of trade book publishing, and you conceivably could make more money self-publishing, assuming sales are roughly equal in both cases. They probably won’t be, but you could still come out ahead. A few folks have done quite well with it, but you will be doing all…

(Disclaimer: I am the author of the linked article.) NEVER cut your copyeditor and proofreader. NEVER NEVER NEVER. You still have the responsibility of creating a quality product. You can sell a few buckets of poo, but that market is very small. Sustained quality is a prerequisite to a writing career.

Seriously.

I was looking at https://www.ingramspark.com/environmental-responsibility and saw this:

> The purpose of print-on-demand book manufacturing, is to reduce our environmental impact.

That misplaced comma is already enough to make me think these folks aren't serious about books (money from books, sure, but not books.)

Re: The Print Book Trade, and Money

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This is an excellent article. I’ve self pubbed for years and knew most of this, but I did not know about Aerio. Further, the breakdown of revenue shares across channels is by far the best I’ve ever seen. Extremely clear, excellent use of graphs + colour. Sidenote: does anyone know how to deal with a possibly malicious review on amazon listings? Someone copy pasted the same one star review on each of my books. I conta…

I think it would be clearer to put the "red" numbers in the "their cut" row. Why are we giving $2 of retail to "your cut" when you're not getting it in the first scenario??

Every single figure has the same numbers for every scenario; only the colors differ. That's a clue that there is something wonky in the choices they made regarding the visual display of information.

Re: The Print Book Trade, and Money

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

(Disclaimer: I am the author of the linked article.) NEVER cut your copyeditor and proofreader. NEVER NEVER NEVER. You still have the responsibility of creating a quality product. You can sell a few buckets of poo, but that market is very small. Sustained quality is a prerequisite to a writing career.

Seriously. I was looking at https://www.ingramspark.com/environmental-responsibility and saw this: > The purpose of print-on-demand book manufacturing, is to reduce our environmental impact. That misplaced comma is already enough to make me think these folks aren't serious about books (money from books, sure, but not books .)

It's basically a vanity publisher operation, so they're not giving you much beyond access to their distribution services.
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