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Can you clarify? There are sites with print-your-own support and produce good binding on quality paper at good prices. Why cannot commercial publishers do this?

• aaronchall 9y ago
  Which sites offer this? Provide examples.
  • Mathnerd314 9y ago
    There are several, easily found by googling "self publishing": https://tragicbooks.com/2017/01/02/my-experience-self-publishing-with-createspace-blurb-kindle-lulu-smashwords-and-peecho/ https://tragicbooks.com/2017/01/02/my-experience-self-publis...
    • aaronchall 9y ago
      This link contains a sort-of market analysis. Is it too much to ask to name actual services that meet the description given? That is: > print-your-own support and produce good binding on quality paper at good prices I know it's a bit subjective, but I want to know, which services do that?
  • ptero 9y ago
    Last I saw was made on Lulu (letter size, hard cover). I wasn't the one paying for it, so not sure how much it was; I am sure they have pricing on the web.
• dragonwriter 9y ago
  They don't provide “good prices” compared to traditional printing for any kind of volume, at best they provide good prices compared to common retail prices for traditionally printed work, but a publisher using them still has to amortize fixed non-printing costs across the print run, they can't just sell for the printing costs and even break even. Those kind of services do make very small print runs possible at lower prices than would be the case for traditional printing at the same time (because they have lower fixed and higher per-unit costs than traditional printing), but they don't represent a reduction in overall printing costs.