There are many websites offering self publishing on demand services. All but a handful, however, are criminally expensive. Here is a review of real choices that let you pay per printed book without setting you back hundreds, even thousands of dollars just to be a single book ready to print:
Print books, ebooks, and photo books.
For printed books, numerous bindings, sizes, and paper options are available.
Includes hardback options.
Minimum pages:
6×9 perfect bound – 32
6×9 saddle stitch – 1
6×9 coil bound – 1
Cost for one 40 page, 6 x 9, standard paper black and white paperback book with perfect binding: $5.30
Cost for one 200 page, 6 x 9 standard paper color paperback book with perfect binding: $44.50
ISBN – free and book listed in Amazon.
Spine – Need 80 pages to have spine text.
Print books, ebooks, and photo books.
Hardback option.
Includes most popular sizes.
Minimum pages:
6×9 perfect bound – 20
6×9 saddle stitch – 12
6×9 coil bound – 8
Cost for one 40 page, 6 x 9, standard paper black and white paperback book with perfect binding: $5.20
Cost for one 200 page, 6 x 9 standard paper color paperback book with perfect binding: $42.50
ISBN – unknown
Spine – unknown number of pages to have spine text.
Print books, ebooks, and photo books.
Hardback option.
Very few sizes.
Minimum pages:
5×8 perfect bound – 50
5×8 saddle stitch – 1
5×8 coil bound – 1
Cost for one 40 page, 5 x 8, standard paper black and white paperback book with perfect binding: $8.2
Cost for one 200 page, 6 x 9 standard paper color paperback book with perfect binding: color not available
ISBN – unknown if provided
Spine – unknown number of pages to have spine text.
Print books and ebooks.
No hardback option.
Popular page sizes.
Minimum pages:
6×9 perfect bound – 24
6×9 saddle stitch – not available
6×9 coil bound – not available
Cost for one 40 page, 6 x 9, standard paper black and white paperback book with perfect binding: $3.66 ($2.15 with pro plan that costs $39 1st year then $5 annually)
Cost for one 200 page, 6 x 9 standard paper color paperback book with perfect binding: $25.75 ($14.84 with pro plan)
These costs are buy your own book. Shipping is not significant.
ISBN – free
Spine – 131 pages to have spine text.
To sell on Amazon, the author sets the list price. Deducted is a fixed charge per book (see above sample costs). Also deducted is 20% if sold on CreateSpace estore, 40% if sold through Amazon, 60% if sold through outside seller. Author keeps remainder as a royalty.
Publishing tips:
Embed all fonts when distilling a pdf version.
Book must have a title page.
Book must have a copyright page after the title page. Copyright page includes copyright notice and ISBN.
Last page of book must be blank.
Best if page count divisible by 4, or blank pages may be added to end of book.
Saddle stitch is format of Dan Kennedy newsletter – paper folded over and stapled in the middle. Pages must thus be a multiple of 4.
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