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I've wondered about it as well. One thought is that people look at it and decide that because it's paperback somebody has decided the book is good enough to warrant the extra expense of making it hard copy?
I don't know


I know the point is to order a batch in and peddle 'em like crazy myself, and it's probably cheaper that way, but it's the cost to break even that's prohibitive. Still, it seems to work okay for some.




Jonathan and I do that. I find it's worth it.

BUT . . . I got a free copy of The Martian paperback (movie tie in cover) with the DVD. £7.99 (£8) cover price. it's 370 pages, tiny writing and rubbish paper. On a price per page basis, scaled up to 430 pages, that'd still be £9.30.

I wondered if this site might be useful (haven't published yet myself) - Sales Rank Express.

Looked at that and dishearted myself. In the US I have 17 reviews on seven books :-(

Thanks, Nancy. It did take a year of trying to be accepted by Bookbub, and then it was only for UK listing.
Moral: if at first you don't succeed, try and try again :~)



I buy mine from Createspace in batches of 5, making unit cost about £3.50. Trouble is, I end up giving them away, never tried to sell them! Amazon uk want £9+postage for the same book!
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but strangely they don't say that when there's a paperback"
Really? The paper version is really easy to put together - you need a pdf of the cover, a pdf of the interior, and Createspace does the rest.
For us traditionalists (who still love ebooks), holding a heavy book in our hands has some kind of symbolic value. I can show it to people. Their eyes do show some respect (not that they would buy a copy - MUCH more expensive than ebooks - all those dead tress, you know).
But I love mine.