Comments on: Print-on-Demand Becomes On Demand https://booksquare.com/print-on-demand-becomes-on-demand/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=print-on-demand-becomes-on-demand Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Tue, 23 May 2006 19:02:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Booksquare https://booksquare.com/print-on-demand-becomes-on-demand/#comment-123893 Tue, 23 May 2006 19:02:03 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/05/22/1968/#comment-123893 Cindy — interesting perspective. Being a selfish American, I didn’t consider the international contracts (also, Canada is our friend to the North — I often forget there are some deals that do not cross borders). I believe in Amazon’s desire to maximize profit, so I believe that Amazon will certainly renegotiate these deals. It makes sense.

$75? That puts you in collectible territory.

]]> By: Cindy Procter-King https://booksquare.com/print-on-demand-becomes-on-demand/#comment-123862 Mon, 22 May 2006 23:32:04 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/05/22/1968/#comment-123862 My publisher deals with Booksurge (they do our printing), and the Amazon buy-out has really affected things. Previous to the Booksurge buyout, for example, copies of books ordered by non-American residents (like, say, Canadians) were printed and mailed to Canadian addresses from Canadian printers, cutting down not only on shipping and handling charges but on border-crossing charges. When Amazon bought BS, they canceled those contracts because they (and I can’t blame them) want to establish their own contracts. In the meantime, however, small press non-American authors are at a disadvantage. The second edition of my book (changed publishers) isn’t even available at http://www.amazonca. Oh, you can buy the first edition – for $75!!!

I sure can’t wait until Amazon gets their non-American contracts going. It’s too bad they canceled the contract they were using for Western Canada (or at least my province) though, because of the three author purchase shipments I’ve made from my publisher in the last year, the best quality, by far, came from the printer in Victoria, B.C.

Cindy

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