For self-publishers: Print: Your fifth step to getting published

For self-publishers

5. Print: Your next step to getting published

PublishMe Print & Publish is your solution centre for printing and self-publishing products and services . . . with specialist book expertise and award-winning personal service.

If you want to print books, our in-house digital print facility offers a high standard of printing and binding using the latest print technology to produce a book you can be proud of.

Digital print allows you to print on demand the exact number required. For self-publishers this is ideal as often budgets are limited and/or the market for the book unsure.

If you simply want enough books to distribute to your family then you can print just that number.
If your goal is to sell the work you can print 100 or 250 books and when they are sold you can simply print more.

In this way you never over-commit your money, you don't have cartons of books cluttering up your house and you can use that saving to market your book, if that is your goal.

Steps to Coming Out on Top

Make a return on your publishing investment!

How will this package help you?

a one-hour consultation with your PublishMe client manager
a workbook with recommendations about setting a retail price for your book
understand how discounts impact on price setting
how to achieve a return on your investment
how to cover your print costs
clear financial guidelines of significant value to help you make smart business decisions about your book

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From John Leyland, author of Roaming Around

"Ooops. We need some more copies printed. Stomped in the rush at the launch. Unexpected enthusiasm. The quality of your print job received high praise by the librarians at Palmerston North library. When I come down from the clouds I'll write you a rave review.."

Don Donovan: Second Bite
"You can produce short runs. The first run of this book was 50 copies and I'd made a profit by the time I'd sold these. So I've ordered some more."

Today, digital print companies can print on-demand paperbacks, in black and white or colour.

Depending on the machines the digital printer operates, you can produce books sized up to A4 finished, and they can be very difficult to distinguish from traditionally printed books. In fact many large publishers are using digital print in the highly competitive book market. Amazon.com prints many of the books you purchase from them digitally on demand rather than warehousing thousands of hard copy titles.

A further huge advantage of digital print for the fledgling publisher is that any inadvertently overlooked errors can be corrected in the very next copy you produce. There is no need for erratum and no need for the horror of every publisher's nightmare of having to reprint a whole print run because of an undetected fault that is too bad to ignore.

In the early days in particular, when self-publishers are learning skills and minimizing costs by trying to do as much as they can by themselves, such an error is an ever-present threat. Digital print is therefore an excellent security net against such a major, and possibly costly, calamity.

Because you are printing just the books that are required, digital printing is a very green alternative. No waste! Digital technology is manufactured to be as eco-friendly as possible and everything in the machines and the consumables is recycled. At PublishMe this is very important to us.

Kay Wall: Outlaw Golf
"For me the greatest benefits of using PublishMe are: 1) the quality of the book, 2) the unit price of future reprints will be no greater than my initial unit price whether I order 5 or 55. The whole thing is just so much more affordable than I ever thought it could be." For more from Kay, click here.

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