I know that paperback binding is less expensive. Why shouldnt I use it for my childrens picture book?
No matter how good your book is, you cannot sell your book for a price much higher than the current market price. The stores/consumers couldnt care less what you paid to print the book. They only care what the retail price of the book is as compared to other books in the category. Large publishers sell a 32-page paperback color childrens book for as low as $1.29 and never higher than three or four dollars. In order to retail books for that price the publisher needs to be able to buy them from the printer for between twenty-five cents and seventy-five cents each. How do they do that? They print 50,000 to 100,000 copies at a time and usually group four to six different titles at a time for a total of 200,000 to 600,000 books. The truth is, you are not going to print in these quantities so you are not going to get these printing prices so you are not going to be able to sell at the same retail price. In shortyou cant compete. Hardcover books are different.
No matter how good your book is, you cannot sell your book for a price much higher than the current market price. The stores/consumers couldnt care less what you paid to print the book. They only care what the retail price of the book is as compared to other books in the category. Large publishers sell a 32-page paperback color childrens book for as low as $1.29 and never higher than three or four dollars. In order to retail books for that price the publisher needs to be able to buy them from the printer for between twenty-five cents and seventy-five cents each. How do they do that? They print 50,000 to 100,000 copies at a time and usually group four to six different titles at a time for a total of 200,000 to 600,000 books. The truth is, you are not going to print in these quantities so you are not going to get these printing prices so you are not going to be able to sell at the same retail price. In shortyou cant compete. Hardcover books are different. Even the large publishers print
