Seating Is Limited for the Self-Publishing Cents and Sensibility Seminar
The event is free, entirely supported by your donations, but seating is limited. Unless you want to wait for another seminar in 2017, you should sign up now.
Publishing Can Be Expensive
After the first draft is finished, further rewriting and editing is needed—assuming you want readers to get past the first page. That’s just the beginning. Send your Word document to a typical publisher, and they may want $2,000 for little more than typesetting, layout, and a standard cover design. For that, you might get 20 books, about $100 per book cost. Want more books? Get ready to pay another $2,000 for a minimum print run of 250 books, a cost of $8 per book.
Affordable Is Better
If you have a print-ready Word file and cover graphic, you can publish with CreateSpace.com for zero cost up front. Your per-book cost for a 150-page 6×9 book would be $2.65 ea, no matter whether you buy one copy or ten thousand. The only difference is shipping cost, which is $3.59 for 1 copy, $.62 ea for 25, $.46 ea for 50. You can start with an order of 25 books for $82 total.
Which do you think is better, $4,000 for 270 books that might not sell in a lifetime, or 270 books bought 50 or more at a time ($157 per shipment) for less than $850 total?
The Simple Solution Can Be Complex
Even the simplest task is hard, and sometimes impossible, when you don’t know. You can spend time touring the countless pages of CreateSpace.com. If you consider yourself computer literate, give it at try.
Most of us would appreciate some help so we can avoid some pitfalls in getting everything set up correctly. That’s one important reason why we’re offering the seminar in September. You’ll see a step-by-step walk-through of all the important screens, and you’ll receive some great advice, even if you’re already familiar with CreateSpace.
Good articles. And true. I had to buy 250 books the first time I published. Fortunitly I was doing a lot of speaking at that time so they sold quickly.