Print-on-demand doesn't get books into stores. The vast majority of my income, as listed above, is wholesale to distributors. Convention sales are at most a quarter of the total. My mail order sales are, right now, negligible. For the numbers necessary to make wholesale viable, Brenner Printing outdoes Lulu, Dreamweaver or any other PoD hands down.
And CafePress? I've tried it- no sales at all- and the prices were, and are, OUTRAGEOUS. If I sell only one out of every three shirts I print at bulk at $14.95 retail, I'm breaking even; if I sell one shirt through CafePress at $16.95, I have to pay CafePress money.
I may do print-on-demand for the conversion to TPBs, but it would be a last resort.
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Date: 2006-04-15 10:54 pm (UTC)And CafePress? I've tried it- no sales at all- and the prices were, and are, OUTRAGEOUS. If I sell only one out of every three shirts I print at bulk at $14.95 retail, I'm breaking even; if I sell one shirt through CafePress at $16.95, I have to pay CafePress money.
I may do print-on-demand for the conversion to TPBs, but it would be a last resort.