Today we are reading up on Print on Demand books. Essentially, I’m trying lock down what the price of the e-book should be, and what to charge for a print-on-demand version. The e-book price looks pretty straightforward, but calculating the Print-on-Demand price is a little tricky.
On the bright side, if I can get (presumably) Amazon to ‘sell’ me PoD vouchers then I can use them to reward higher tiers on the Kickstarter. I also have to work out a smaller reward for the lower tiers: I’m thinking a wallpaper, but that might mean more expenses. In case you were wondering, spreadsheets are amazing for pointing out the persnickety details of the stuff you were previously just hand-waving…
The business aspects of your self-publishing process are interesting to me. I’ve been kicking around a software / game idea for a while, and I’ve slowly been tinkering with getting it into something worth publicizing for a KickStarter or other crowd-funding program. Getting even hand-wave ideas of costs and considerations helps shine some light on details that may not be obvious the first time through the process.
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