POD (print on demand) Books Being Made For the past couple weeks I’ve been reworking my Montana books.
No, I haven’t added any new content, but I have resized the text and images. Actually, I’ve just changed the formatting around from one style to another, but I won’t bore you with the details of this.
What’s important is that the books are a bit shorter in length, and this is because the text size has gone down slightly. The good news is that the production costs of those books have also gone down, and so have the prices.
I set the prices for these, based upon the minimum that I can set. Hustlers and Homesteaders, for instance, has a minimum list price of $13.03. It’s a long book, coming in at more than 350 pages.
Yeah, it used to be about 425 pages, but I reduced that. Oh well.
The price, however, has gone from $16.95 on that one to $15.95. Here’s how my royalties are calculated for that:
No, I haven’t added any new content, but I have resized the text and images. Actually, I’ve just changed the formatting around from one style to another, but I won’t bore you with the details of this.
What’s important is that the books are a bit shorter in length, and this is because the text size has gone down slightly. The good news is that the production costs of those books have also gone down, and so have the prices.
I set the prices for these, based upon the minimum that I can set. Hustlers and Homesteaders, for instance, has a minimum list price of $13.03. It’s a long book, coming in at more than 350 pages.
Yeah, it used to be about 425 pages, but I reduced that. Oh well.
The price, however, has gone from $16.95 on that one to $15.95. Here’s how my royalties are calculated for that:
Createspace pricing options before formatting changes
Createspace pricing options after formatting changes
That book there is actually Braves and Businessmen, and the minimum used to be $12.20 that I could charge for that, but now the minimum is $10.15. That means I’m making more for each copy, and all I had to do was reformat the book. Here’s what that looks like, before and after:
Createspace inside before formatting changes
Createspace inside after formatting changes
So those are actual pages from my print book, though viewed on the electronic previewer. You can tell that I’ve switched from indents to block formatting, and the text size has gone down. We’re getting almost a whole new page of text in that 3-page view.
So that allows me to lower the price and pass those savings on to you. I’ve done so, by $1 on that book. Priests and Prospects has also gone down in price, from $15.95 to $14.95. In fact, that one gave me some problems with the print cover, and it got unpublished for a few days this past week. And that caused the used price to skyrocket:
So that allows me to lower the price and pass those savings on to you. I’ve done so, by $1 on that book. Priests and Prospects has also gone down in price, from $15.95 to $14.95. In fact, that one gave me some problems with the print cover, and it got unpublished for a few days this past week. And that caused the used price to skyrocket:
I’m not sure there’s any long-term potential in speculating on the used history book market, however.
I’ve kept the price for the first two volumes the same, at $10.95. Book 1 will eventually go down in price, perhaps after Book 5 comes out. Also, I’ll be expanding that book sometime in the near future, profiling more of national politics as well as early fur traders. But we’ll talk about that another day.
Until then, I hope you’ll like this new look and feel to the books. Why not check them out? And if you have the old editions…perhaps it’s time to upgrade.
Thanks for reading!
I’ve kept the price for the first two volumes the same, at $10.95. Book 1 will eventually go down in price, perhaps after Book 5 comes out. Also, I’ll be expanding that book sometime in the near future, profiling more of national politics as well as early fur traders. But we’ll talk about that another day.
Until then, I hope you’ll like this new look and feel to the books. Why not check them out? And if you have the old editions…perhaps it’s time to upgrade.
Thanks for reading!
