Comments on: What is Print-on-Demand and why should I do it?

By: Speaking About Your Book: 7 Tips For Successful Public Speaking | The Creative Penn

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:01:07 +0000

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By: Sharon Dexter

Sharon Dexter — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:50:32 +0000

Print on Demand is definitely the way to go these days. With the costs of printing thousands of publications with the hopes and expectations that they “may” sell, having a print on demand solution not only reduces this risk, but reduces storage and postage costs as well. Most consumers want the publication in a variety of formats, electronically for the instant satisfaction but in print as well for notes and future use. POD is the future. Printing companies can easily set up books in their library for users to order on demand in these formats.

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Print-On-Demand Will Save You Money | The Creative Penn — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:59:31 +0000

[...] Print-on-demand (POD) publishing is when you load your completed book files to a provider like Lulu, CreateSpace, Booksurge etc. A customer buys your book from an online bookstore e.g. Amazon.com. The order goes to this provider, they print one book and it is shipped to the customer. You have not paid anything for that book. You get revenue from the book e.g. I get US$2.50 for every book I sell on Amazon via POD. [...]

By: Adventures in Publishing: Selling books globally - by The Creative Penn | The Creative Penn

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:35:43 +0000

[...] Print-on-demand and internet sales enable you as the author to be based anywhere in the world. You can sell your book to someone anywhere in the world. [...]

By: admin

admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:48:24 +0000

Thanks for your comment Larina.
Re Lulu and other self-pub companies, they all offer publishing by them i.e. they hold the ISBN, or published by yourself – you hold ISBN. I chose to publish with Lulu as it was easier for me being out of the US – it doesn’t affect my rights as copyright holder. I can also pull it anything should another publisher want it, or should I want to publish elsewhere.
Re marketing for any books – authors HAVE to be able to market themselves now. Yes, it takes time and yes, it is necessary. I say this as a self-pub author, but check out comments from Rachelle Gardner, literary agent here
http://cba-ramblings.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-you-should-help-sell-your-book.html

and on the author platform
http://cba-ramblings.blogspot.com/2009/06/dreaded-author-platform.html

All authors need to market whether they are traditional or self-pub. I hope that helps! Thanks, Joanna

By: Larina Warnock

Larina Warnock — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:02 +0000

I think print-on-demand technology is a great step forward in environmental terms, but there are a couple of things that haven’t been worked out yet and I wonder about your take on them. First, if you publish through Lulu, isn’t true that Lulu holds the ISBN number (i.e. a publishing ‘press’ shouldn’t use Lulu because the book wouldn’t be listed as their pulication)? Also, it’s easy for a self-published book to be lost in the shuffle (or even filtered out on some sites), so are marketing costs actually higher for self-publishing than with traditional publishers who likely already have marketing tools in place? I can see how marketing alone could take a great deal of writing time away from the writer.

By: Print-On-Demand Changed My Life - by Joanna Penn | The Creative Penn

Print-On-Demand Changed My Life - by Joanna Penn | The Creative Penn — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:11:09 +0000

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Wed, 27 May 2009 06:17:16 +0000

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Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:39:32 +0000

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By: What is Publishing 2.0 and why is it great news for writers? - The Creative Penn | The Creative Penn

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:36:13 +0000

[...] Print-on-demand (POD) technology is when you load a print-ready file to a POD publisher online. When an order comes in for your book, they print the book and send it to the customer directly. You get a smaller cut of the sale price but you have no stock to store, no postage hassle or costs and no up-front print costs. If you are a self-published author, you have the global rights to your book. You can have multiple POD publishers in order to lower costs from postage e.g. use Lulu.com in USA and Pothi.com in India. [...]