Re: Blurb....

**"* M* <B*@verizon.net>**

If you check the prices that Blurb charges you will see that they are

reasonable for getting a few finished, colorful copies for yourself. You

could do a great job making a landscape job book to show customers, for

instance, or a gift book for your family, or a special custom book for a

client. The product looks as if it has very high quality. It is true

print-on-demand because you can make as few as one of a kind.

However, Blurb prices are high. This makes the use of this company

marginally possible for someone who wants to make and sell a book to

customers directly online or at his or her talks and events.

And their prices are way too high to permit book selling through book

wholesalers or distributors. You have to allow those companies a 55 percent

discount, sometimes more. For you even to make a penny, the retail price of

the book would have to be far more than double what Blurb is charging.

That's the math.

Betty Mackey, Publisher
www.mackeybooks.com

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For those of you wanting to make a book...or more!

http://www.blurb.com/

Donna Dawson, Master Gardener

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