Question:
would amazon make their own books for people who have written or drawn them?
anonymous
2010-03-21 00:10:41 UTC
ive created an art book of all my drawings for the past 5years and would like a company to build a custom book out of it but only a couple at a time so as to sell them.
Five answers:
anonymous
2010-03-22 10:18:30 UTC
http://www.fonerbooks.com/paper.htm



I suggest that you check this site - know that it will cost - and that you will be unable to list on Amazon unless you become a volume seller (39.99 a month).



Self Publishing and Printing Your Own Book



It's tough to beat self-publishing as a business model, but it carries the same stigma in some people's eyes as Print On Demand. If you're worried about how people will perceive your books, don't use your family name as the publisher name or write under a pen name. That's literally the only difference between self-publishing and any other kind of publishing, at least as far as the public can tell. The advantages of self-publishing your own books in terms of author relations and minimizing out of pocket expenses (as opposed to paying authors) are so obvious that there's no point dwelling on them. However, you have to be honest with yourself about how hard you're willing to work to start a publishing business and you have to be realistic about the probable outcome. This article covers how to publish a book with an offset printer. A much better and lower cost option to offset printing a book for most authors and small publishers is to go with book-on-demand, for which I've posted a print on demand case study with Ingram's Lightning Source.



There are dozens of titles about how to publish a book which are replete with stories of rejected authors who strike it rich, but that type of success is incredibly rare and doesn't serve as a model you can follow. The average book published in the U.S. sells less than 2,000 copies in it's lifetime, and since bestsellers and heavily promoted trade published books pull up that average, you had better believe that the average self published book sells closer to 200 copies. Success in any type of publishing is dependent upon salesmanship, so if you aren't willing to invest at least as much time in selling your book as you invested in writing it, there's little reason to go into the publishing business.



If you despair of waiting or if you have the desire to go it alone, self-publishing can be both satisfying and profitable. Also, a successfully self-published book is often an easy sell to a "real" publisher, providing you're willing to gamble on earning much less per book and making it up in volume. In this article we demystify the process and cost to self publish your own book, but first a word of warning: Books don't sell themselves.



Quick and Dirty



Before going in depth into the self-publishing process, we will present some quick cost numbers to whet your appetite (or send you home screaming). A standard 288 page 5.5"x 8.5" paperback book (around 100,000 words) with a single color laminated cover printed by your local offset shop will cost around the following:



Quantity 100 300 500 1000 5000 10000

Price/Book $5.00 $4.50 $4.00 $3.00 $1.25 $1.00



At low quantities, page count has relatively little impact on the cost, whereas at high quantities, where you are basically buying "value added" paper, page count makes a big difference. Also, printers reserve the right to force you to buy overruns, (between 5% to 10% of the quantity ordered), adding hundereds or thousands of dollars to your cost.
anonymous
2010-03-21 04:57:54 UTC
But look at www.iuniverse.com as one possiblity. There are a couple others. Really a low cost vanity press is what you need, however you will need to really be careful and get solid references from other satisfied authors to make sure you don't get ripped off. Most want thousands of dollars and have you buy several hundred books that you need to store and sell.



If you are in a big city you might find an art/graphic house that will help put it together, and they will know of at least one printer. Good luck.
anonymous
2016-04-14 02:45:15 UTC
Any of Dorothy Morrison's books are good. Every Day Magic is an older but great book and a very good resource. She has a web-sight. I will list it for you. I am a natural witch and don't practice wicca. I am a witch, plain and simple. If you can center yourself you don't need a bunch of extra stuff to cast. The alter and athema and so forth are simply tools to help you focus your energies. At times the circle is necessary. If you are calling spirits or anything very powerful you need to cast a circle for your protection. Another good source of information is witcvox. I will list that for you as well. Brightest Blessings
?
2010-03-21 09:00:17 UTC
I have had some artistic friends like myself print their artwork up in book form at the local publishers and sell them online and at their art shows, its pretty economical as long as your artwork is scannable, maybe even clean it up a bit in a photo editing program and take a usb memory stick to the printers, who knows there may be a submit product department of amazon.
Ghenni23
2010-03-21 00:13:05 UTC
Try createspace.com.



It's a self-publishing company owned by Amazon.


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