![]() Obviously such a long ship-time being displayed harms sales. Let’s see the book! Click on any image for the highest-res my little iPhone SE can produce.Īmazon shows “1 to 2 months” shipping for the HTS hardcover – which is false! What does my IngramSpark hardcover book look like? (Note that through KDP Print, my average paperback profit is $5.26.) So, my average paperback profit is $6.17. The wholesale price is $9.07, and my average printing cost is $2.90. Notice that the list price for my paperback is $12.95. Here’s a peek at my royalty statement from Ingram: My IngramSpark hardcover specsī&W 5 x 8 in or 203 x 127mm Gray Digital Cloth™ Cover w/Jacket White 50lb Paper (my only option) Matte finished dust jacket Page Count: 140 Spine Width: 0.37500 in Weight: 0.566 lbs Since I was creating a sort of “souvenir” edition, that’s the option I went with. I don’t personally like dust jackets – they’re annoying to deal with – but I do think they make a book feel more distinguished. Since the jacketed case laminate wasn’t an option for me, I ended up going with digital cloth. I’ve since tried this option with my second hardcover. That’s a case-laminate book with a jacket. Note that since I released my first hardcover, IngramSpark has also introduced a jacketed case laminate option. What is case laminate hardcover? Case laminate is just the cover printed so that it adheres to the hard-cover of the book. What is digital cloth hardcover? Digital cloth comes with a dust jacket, wrapped around a plain cover printed to look like cloth. But the big question for my hardcover was: case laminate or digital cloth? IngramSpark hardcover options: digital cloth, case laminate, & jacketed case laminate (and now, case laminate with dust jacket)Īs you can see on IngramSpark’s calculator, there are a number of options for your hardcover – including trim size and paper type. These factors were just gravy, though – not main motivations. I figured that having a more expensive option available would also provide a psychological “price anchor” that would make the other editions look more affordable as well. ![]() Now this “souvenir” edition would also sell for a little more profit. (Read on to see why I didn’t end up doing that.) I was nearing the finish line on Mind Management, Not Time Management, and I was considering skipping the paperback edition, and going straight to hardcover. As a proof-of-concept for a future book, launched directly to hardcover.Surely some of those readers wanted a “souvenir” copy. At the time I decided to create a hardcover edition, I had sold around 15,000 copies. To give readers an opportunity to purchase a “souvenir.” I know I like to have a hardcover edition of books I’ve really enjoyed.Build your 100-word writing habit with my free email course.
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