![]() And, if you're serious about your writing, or your photography, or your recipes, or whatever it is you do, there is no better creative discipline than editing and sequencing a book. The big plus, I think, is that the low cost of entry (and the zero cost of failing to sell many copies) means that producing new books regularly is not just feasible, it's addictive. Have you ever seen 1000 copies of a hardback book?* But your book is out there and easily available, and you have not spent thousands of pounds up front to a printer for copies of a book you will not be able to distribute, and which will sit unsold in cardboard boxes under your bed and in your closet and in your loft and in your shed forever like a bad dream. Sure, Blurb are making money, and you, probably, are not. If it doesn't, it's rolled over into the next month. If you have added some profit for yourself onto the basic production cost, Blurb will pass this on to you, provided it exceeds a certain accumulated monthly total, currently £12.50. Every copy that a customer buys is made on demand, and the whole transaction is handled by Blurb.But: you yourself need never buy another copy. There are various tailored publicity tools available, free of charge, for social media, your blog or webpage, etc. Once you're confident it's right, you invite people to buy it, or open it for sale to the general public, in the formats you choose. ![]() Even though any revisions you decide to make have to be uploaded and re-purchased as a fresh book. Twenty, thirty, forty, fifty pounds? For one copy? Friends, that is not a rip-off, that is a bargain. Now, this is the point at which most people who have never tried self-publication before balk. To keep it there, you have to buy one copy, at basic production cost.
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