<html><body>Hi,<br /><br /><br />Here is the URL from Thursday's talk:<br /><br />https://www.createspace.com/<br /><br /><br />For those that missed it, we looked at publishing a hypothetical 300-page book on Java though Amazon's CreateSpace facility.<br /><br />It's a self-publishing, print-on-demand service. Once your PDF is uploaded and approved (and a small fee paid), it gets listed on Amazon.<br /><br />This means Amazon will process the order, print, pack and ship.<br /><br />You can order copies at a good price, so this would be a good solution if you wanted to provide a text book for a course.<br /><br />Unfortunately it's all in dollars.<br /><br />Our Java book worked out at US$7.50 to order it ourselves. We calculated that the lowest possible selling price, just to break even after Amazon and CreateSpace fees and commissions, would be US$9.49, leaving us 9 cents profit. Setting the price at a more realistic $19.99 yielded US$8.49 profit, but we thought the market could bear a much better price still.<br /><br />If you think the title might sell multiple copies, there's an option to pay an up front fee of US$39 for the Pro Plan (then after the first year, this fee is just $5.00 annually).<br /><br />This automatically gives a more favourable deal. Our Java book would then cost us only US$4.45 to order ourselves, and would give a US$3.14 profit if the price were to be set at US$9.49 or US$11.54 profit at a price of $19.99.<br /><br />So, if you're planning a Java course for twelve delegates, Pro Plan would get you a very reasonably priced, professionally bound text book. And any copies sold via Amazon would be a nice little bonus :-)<br /><br /><br />Best Regards,<br />Fay<br />East Grinstead Linux User Group<br />www.eglug.org.uk<br /><br /><br />P.S computing is just an example. One member suggested it might work for a family history book, which I thought was a nice idea.<br /><span class="gI"></span><br /></body></html>