![]() ![]() Unless you’re famous (like, say, in the Royal Family of England), what you’re going to get is just copy editing. The publisher might notice you got a fact wrong, but it’s not their job to check, it’s yours. At worst you’ll get sued at best you’ll look stupid. They imagine that they can give the publisher some rough sketches in PowerPoint or drawn on napkins and the publisher will turn them into finished art to go in the book. Unless you’re artistically talented, hire a graphic artist who works in Adobe Illustrator. Make sure you get the right specs (like grey scale levels and width and height limitations) for the artwork. Don’t hand in color art for a black-and-white book.Īnd be prepared to change the graphics again, after they’re “done,” to match the fonts in the final interior design for the book.Ī lot of graphics means a lot of hassle. That might be worth it, but keep it in mind as you think about graphics to potentially include. Unlike the interior graphics, the cover actually is your publisher’s responsibility. Some of my own book covers have been awesome.īut sometimes, they just can’t give you what you want, and you have to hire your own designer. Be prepared in case you get in that situation. Check your publishing contract it’s in there. If you need more, you’ll have to pay your publisher for them (including shipping). And they won’t budge on the price, which is also in the contract, typically about 40% to 50% off the cover price, close to what you’ll pay on Amazon. I’ve had some luck in charming copies out of publishers if I can make a case for why I need them. But books for speaking events are your responsibility. Make the event organizer buy them in bulk. ![]() You already paid to print the books, you can typically get as many as you want. Furthermore, POD vendors that have multiple manufacturing locations often print books as close as possible to a book’s final destination, reducing the shipping distance, especially for international sales.Publishers only do this in rom-coms or if you’re Stephen King. ![]() In addition, books are generally shipped only once-directly to those ordering them-rather than from a printer to a warehouse and then to the retailer or consumer. Excess inventory is often destroyed after a set number of years to avoid ongoing storage costs, but with POD, because only sold books are printed, there is no excess inventory. POD reduces the environmental footprint of bookmaking by preventing the unnecessary destruction of trees and reducing the pollution that accompanies the manufacturing of paper and ink as well as the long-distance shipping and climate-controlled storage of physical copies.POD makes it possible for these presses to publish mission-furthering scholarship that may not have robust sales potential and to keep in print works whose audience has peaked, allowing authors to continue to share their ideas and readers to continue to obtain information long after a book’s initial publication. In some cases, traditional print runs represent an initial financial outlay that is too great of a risk for a press to bear responsibly. POD allows books to be published that would otherwise not be financially viable, even for a nonprofit press which still must generate sufficient revenue to cover expenditures.As such, POD is often used as a stopgap between conventional printings (or even before an initial conventional printing), allowing readers to obtain copies of books that would otherwise be out of stock at the time of their order. Conventional printing for large runs generally takes months rather than days. POD allows books to be printed to meet demand more quickly than is possible with conventional printing.POD has multiple benefits for authors, readers, publishers, and the environment. In fact, digital short-run printing, which is analogous to POD, is now often used in lieu of conventional printing on initial print runs. POD technology has developed significantly since it was first introduced more than two decades ago and provides near the same quality as conventional printing. Unlike conventional (offset) printing, which requires a publisher to print well in advance, printing on demand allows the publisher to more effectively print to scale, as sales happen. Print-on-demand (POD) technology allows a publisher to distribute books in an efficient and cost-effective manner. ![]()
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