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However, their customer service reply time could benefit from some attention (waiting three to seven days for a reply is far too long when you’re planning events to sell your product!). With Blurb, it took less than two weeks to receive our orders, so we were pleased with that. We had a print quality complaint with the second printing, and Blurb was happy to make things right. Well, our books sold out fast, and we ordered 300 more–better discount, slightly cheaper shipping per book. For our first order, that added one whole dollar to the price of each book! That’s a big deal when you have already-small margins. Depending on how many you order at a time, your shipping fee will vary (1 book has a $6.99 shipping fee, 100 books had a $100 shipping fee). The discount barely covered their shipping costs, which are completely and ridiculously HIGH. Once we decided we were serious about selling, we chose to print 100 books to get the 10% discount. The print quality at economy printing is good–not bad, not great, but for our price point, we could definitely accept it. Their instructions held our hands throughout the whole process and made us confident in what we were printing. One thing we really appreciated about Blurb was the very detailed guide to trim lines, margins, spine text, and more. Blurb allowed us to do this! We couldn’t afford to print hardcovers (for our length of book, it was $15-$20…our cost to print!), but we weren’t really planning on selling that many anyway.īlurb also works with InDesign, which is my graphic designer’s (aka my hubby’s) program of choice, so he did some reworking of my design (which is getting a post of its own!) and sent it to the printer.

We personally don’t buy many books (we let our library do that for us!), so we knew if we wanted to sell a book, we’d like to keep it at the $10 mark. I priced out the kind of book we could afford to print and sell and landed on their trade book. They have easy templates that can be tailored to your liking, tons of book sizes and options, and a simple drag-and-drop system for placing photos into your book.

Bookwright pricing free#

I had used their free software for years, making many family and baby photo albums. We started with Blurb, because I could figure it out. While printing one book is more expensive per book than 10,000, for those of us not pursuing traditional publishing (there are lots of reasons why you might not want to), POD offers exactly what we need. This means you can order 1 book or 10,000 books (maybe someday we’ll order more than 300 at a time).

Self-publishers typically use a Print-on-Demand (POD) printer, and we are no different. With IngramSpark, we printed The Monsterbetas a 48-page, 6×9″ soft and hardcover trade book with economy color printing.

I’ve shared a little about our publishing choices in previous posts, but today, I wanted to get more specific about the printing choices we’ve made.įor your reference, we printed The Shoephabetwith Blurb as a 60-page, 6×9″ softcover trade book with economy color printing.