How Self-Publishing Companies Mark-Up Book Printing Costs.

How Self-Publishing Companies Mark-Up Book Printing Costs
Mill City Press is the only self-publishing company that passes the pricing the printer gives us directly to our authors. By paying wholesale printing costs, Mill City Press authors are able to price their books competitively, increase their profits dramatically, and have the flexibility to offer discounts to their readers.
Keep reading and you´ll cardboard box understand how our commitment to pass wholesale printing costs to our authors will save you hundreds (or even thousands) of dollars.
Visit any other self-publishing company´s website and you´ll see what they tell authors it costs to print a book, usually in the form of how much of a discount the author receives when he or she orders copies of his or her own book.
On average, one 200 page, 5.5 x 8.5 paperback, with a laminated, full color cover costs a self-publishing company about $3.90 to print ($0.015 per page plus $0.90 per unit).
Below is a chart that shows you:
How much other self-publishing companies pay for book printingHow much they tell authors it costs to print a copy of the author´s book; andHow much the publisher makes each time an author´s book is printed (this doesn´t include what publishers make in royalties).Publisher
Actual Print Cost of 200 page, 5.5 x 8.5. paperback
Cost at which Author can purchase books from Publisher
Printing profit Publisher makes per book printed
Profit Publisher makes when 200 books are printed.
Mill City Press
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