All of these tasks can be done for pennies by offshoring it to places like India. In fact most publishers have staff for proofreading, indexing, cover design et

All of these tasks can be done for pennies by offshoring it to places like India. In fact most publishers have staff for proofreading, indexing, cover design etc entirely in India. My estimate is that you can recover the cost even if you sell as little as 100 copies.