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I'm not comfortable putting a spin on this just because it's Simon & Schuster. It's vanity publishing. I'm agreeing with HapiSofi's assessment.
Not only that, you still have to buy your books. 1-24 is 30% discount. Discount goes higher up to 1000-1999 60% discount.
If the retailer places an order through Ingram a $17.95 book will give the author a $1.56 royalty. (Pretty sucky) If a consumer purchase direct from Archway the author will get $6.49. Their royalty pricing is here. It's all based on net, ebooks too. I don't see book buyers going to the Publisher site to browse books, to be honest. Like it or not, it's easier to go to Amazon. I see their ebooks will be on Amazon, not sure on the hard copies.
No way an author, paying this expensive package prices, plus buy the books could ever expect to see that money earn back.
If you do it yourself on createspace, even if you paid someone for cover design and layout, I don't see it ever coming up to that many thousands of dollars. Plus people can keep buying your book using createspace or lulu at no extra cost to you, unlike the author purchasing a certain amount of books at a discount first.
Taking createspace and lulu out of it, I've self-published before. I paid for printing based on quantity. No "packages" pricing added on. Yes, I easily made back my investment and then some.
Not only that, you still have to buy your books. 1-24 is 30% discount. Discount goes higher up to 1000-1999 60% discount.
If the retailer places an order through Ingram a $17.95 book will give the author a $1.56 royalty. (Pretty sucky) If a consumer purchase direct from Archway the author will get $6.49. Their royalty pricing is here. It's all based on net, ebooks too. I don't see book buyers going to the Publisher site to browse books, to be honest. Like it or not, it's easier to go to Amazon. I see their ebooks will be on Amazon, not sure on the hard copies.
No way an author, paying this expensive package prices, plus buy the books could ever expect to see that money earn back.
If you do it yourself on createspace, even if you paid someone for cover design and layout, I don't see it ever coming up to that many thousands of dollars. Plus people can keep buying your book using createspace or lulu at no extra cost to you, unlike the author purchasing a certain amount of books at a discount first.
Taking createspace and lulu out of it, I've self-published before. I paid for printing based on quantity. No "packages" pricing added on. Yes, I easily made back my investment and then some.
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