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Atricle Dump - The Economics Of E-Book Publishing
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$ 5,000.00 to send books to reviewers
$30,000.00 to market each book effectively.
$55,000.00 is your total investment.
Out of your initial 3,000 run of books you have already given away 500 leaving you with 2,500 copies to sell.
Assuming your retail price is $20 per book and you can maintain that retail price for one year, the most you will bring in if you sell every remaining book is: $50,000
If
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When you consider the cost of marketing, publishing, shipping, and returns of printed materials vs. the cost of marketing and shipping an e-book the two are just not in the same league.
The cost of having a book printed and published exceeds $20,000 for about 3,000 copies. Again the cost of an e-book is $0.
How to sell and deliver your books to the reader?
To get your printed book sold you will need to market the book-to-book stores. To get in the bookstore you need a favorable review of your book. The review process works like this:
The author sends out press releases to book reviewers representing the genre of the book. If the reviewer becomes interested in the press release, the author will receive a request for a "review copy."
The author digs into the stash of books, pulls out a copy, attaches a reviewer or a media kit, and pays for the postage. On a $5 book that may add another $5 in shipping materials as well as postage. Many reviewers will ask you to ship your books by overnight express. The author may find himself spending up to $18 - $25 per reviewer!
Experts in the self-publishing field, state that you must send between 300-500 review copies to target genre reviewers before your book has a chance to become a hit. If you send out 500 book copies at a minimum of $10 per book, you have spent another $5,000 of your money.
Now you have to market the book. It's your job as the self-published author to get the books into the store, and it is your job to move the books from the store to your customers.
Many self-publishing marketing experts feel it takes around $30,000 per title to effectively market a book.
So here is the rundown of what it costs.
What it costs to print and sell a self-published book
$20,000.00 to print and place a cover on your book.
$ 5,000.00 to send books to reviewers
$30,000.00 to market each book effectively.
$55,000.00 is your total investment.
Out of your initial 3,000 run of books you have already given away 500 leaving you with 2,500 copies to sell.
Assuming your retail price is $20 per book and you can maintain that retail price for one year, the most you will bring in if you sell every remaining book is: $50,000
If
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The author sends out press releases to book reviewers representing the genre of the book. If the reviewer becomes interested in the press release, the author will receive a request for a "review copy."
The author digs into the stash of books, pulls out a copy, attaches a reviewer or a media kit, and pays for the postage. On a $5 book that may add another $5 in shipping materials as well as postage. Many reviewers will ask you to ship your books by overnight express. The author may find himself spending up to $18 - $25 per reviewer!
Experts in the self-publishing field, state that you must send between 300-500 review copies to target genre reviewers before your book has a chance to become a hit. If you send out 500 book copies at a minimum of $10 per book, you have spent another $5,000 of your money.
Now you have to market the book. It's your job as the self-published author to get the books into the store, and it is your job to move the books from the store to your customers.
Many self-publishing marketing experts feel it takes around $30,000 per title to effectively market a book.
So here is the rundown of what it costs.
What it costs to print and sell a self-published book
$20,000.00 to print and place a cover on your book.
$ 5,000.00 to send books to reviewers
$30,000.00 to market each book effectively.
$55,000.00 is your total investment.
Out of your initial 3,000 run of books you have already given away 500 leaving you with 2,500 copies to sell.
Assuming your retail price is $20 per book and you can maintain that retail price for one year, the most you will bring in if you sell every remaining book is: $50,000
If
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Experts in the self-publishing field, state that you must send between 300-500 review copies to target genre reviewers before your book has a chance to become a hit. If you send out 500 book copies at a minimum of $10 per book, you have spent another $5,000 of your money.
Now you have to market the book. It's your job as the self-published author to get the books into the store, and it is your job to move the books from the store to your customers.
Many self-publishing marketing experts feel it takes around $30,000 per title to effectively market a book.
So here is the rundown of what it costs.
What it costs to print and sell a self-published book
$20,000.00 to print and place a cover on your book.
$ 5,000.00 to send books to reviewers
$30,000.00 to market each book effectively.
$55,000.00 is your total investment.
Out of your initial 3,000 run of books you have already given away 500 leaving you with 2,500 copies to sell.
Assuming your retail price is $20 per book and you can maintain that retail price for one year, the most you will bring in if you sell every remaining book is: $50,000
If
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Now you have to market the book. It's your job as the self-published author to get the books into the store, and it is your job to move the books from the store to your customers.
Many self-publishing marketing experts feel it takes around $30,000 per title to effectively market a book.
So here is the rundown of what it costs.
What it costs to print and sell a self-published book
$20,000.00 to print and place a cover on your book.
$ 5,000.00 to send books to reviewers
$30,000.00 to market each book effectively.
$55,000.00 is your total investment.
Out of your initial 3,000 run of books you have already given away 500 leaving you with 2,500 copies to sell.
Assuming your retail price is $20 per book and you can maintain that retail price for one year, the most you will bring in if you sell every remaining book is: $50,000
If
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$ 5,000.00 to send books to reviewers
$30,000.00 to market each book effectively.
$55,000.00 is your total investment.
Out of your initial 3,000 run of books you have already given away 500 leaving you with 2,500 copies to sell.
Assuming your retail price is $20 per book and you can maintain that retail price for one year, the most you will bring in if you sell every remaining book is: $50,000
If you subtract the $50,000 you incurred as expenses you will have a net income of only $0.
Believe me when I tell you that will be the hardest you have ever worked for free.
Are these figures realistic? Yes, they are! Ask any self-published author what it cost to print and sell books.
Now let us use an example of creating or publishing an e-book and bringing it to market.
We will assume that you will want your own web site. It is possible to sell e-books without one, but lets look at all of the possibilities.
Let's assume that you have a computer and word processing software. You will need that anyway to self-publish your book the traditional way.
What it costs to publish and sell an e-book?
- Cost of a Web site with secure credit card ordering is $50 per year. A good hosting company RD-Webhosting
- Cost of an Internet provider is $240 per year.
- Adobe Acrobat Software is $269 (One time charge)
- Create as many e-books as you want with this setup.
- Marketing costs. You can get by using "sweat equity" in other words you don't need to spend anything. (You just saved $30,000 Congratulations!) I will explain marketing later on.
- Cover Graphics. You don't really need any unless you are posting to Amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com. There are people who will charge $100 or less to create an attractive e-book cover for you. Let's estimate on the high side of $200. You can use software like Paint Shop Pro or other graphic design software or take a picture, scan it into your computer and use that as your cover art.
- Review Copies. There are e-book reviewers. You send the reviewers e-mail attachments that include copies of your e-book. Your cost to send it is $0. Think of how many reviewers you can service on the Internet. You will be happy
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