: Re: Are print on demand books more expensive than normal published books? I would like to publish my book. I would like to publish it as print on demand. I don't like the idea of giving my book

@Cugini967

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Having worked in the Print industry for over 20 years, in different shops that print traditionally (offset) and digitially (POD), it usually comes down to quantity if you are asking for an apples to apples cost per book.

If you want one book printed, it's much cheaper to send finalized artwork to a printing company and they could process your file for a digital printing machine, bind it and send it to you for a fee, let's call it X Dollars.

On the contrary, if you want 100,000 books printed and did it digitally (POD style) it would cost 100,000 times X dollars. But if you did it traditionally using offset printing, it would cost a small fraction of that price.

If you contact a local printer who has the capability to print and bind both digitally and traditionally, you could ask for a quotation, which may look something like this:

Digital-------------------------Traditional

1 book ----------------------1 book ,200

10 books 0-------------------10 books ,200

1000 books ,000--------------1000 books ,350

10000 books 0,000------------10000 books ,000

You would have to work with the sales team and find out where the "cutoff" is based on the number of books you are going to print.

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