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admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:46:59 +0000

Thanks for the post, Steven. I researched launching a pub company for a long time. Lighting Print has become a standard for people who set up a publishing business based on POD. Important that. Lulu and the ilk are for writers to get books out without establishing a publishing house. Lighting Print (LP) only works with publishing houses that are legally registered (wherever in the world). LP is a part of Ingrams, which runs the largest book database in the Anglo-Saxon world and each book is automatically listed globally, so compared to Lulu, etc., exposure is thorough. Costs? A little upfront money to set-up the account, then upload interior and exterior of a book costs. You set the price, and any discounts. Cut to the chase. You have a book listed on Amazon. Someone wants to buy it. You put (let’s say) a price of 10 dollars/euros/pounds on it. The person orders the book through Amazon. This request goes to LP; they do the fulfillment; they print, pack and mail. They then take their cut. Say, 4 dollars. Then they have 6 dollars left for your company, and they deposit the amount of books sold every quarter (with detailed accounting) to the bank account you have specified. (There’s lots of details here, so maybe I’ll do a separate post on this later on…) Hope that helps…

By: Steven Gaskin

Steven Gaskin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:15:18 +0000

Hi Vincent – great post. Can you give a bit more detail on the lightning source deal? It seems that their print costs are comparable to standalone printers, but there must be some charge for shipping books to retailers, surely? From what I’ve read on their site and a few others, it seems too good to be true.

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