So - I have the final answer from booksurge for a print-ready book to be published-on-demand - $299 (plus their 35% royalties). Ouch.
After a couple of emails bouncing back and forth between their rep and myself - as they tried to ply me with editing services (already done and paid for), book cover service (already done and paid for) and any other services a new author should rightly use - the final email came back with the express program offer. $299 to make the book available through themselves (and their Amazon puppetmasters) with a 35% mark-up.
Ok - so I’m not in any great rush for a POD at the moment. I have the books in the garage (thanks to the service from Biddles) and so will be able to fulfill any order at the moment. So I can afford to continue to shop around (Createspace is next on the list) - but I just wanted to be prepared, is all!
The main interest for podding was to allow the book to be bought, cost effectively, from the American market. As the pod isn’t dependent on location - then the shipping costs can be reasonable for whereever the buyer needs the book to be delivered.
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