PA,I need to make a correction. The author whom I mentioned emailed me last Feb. I referred to his email when I posted to your question. I read his email again this morning and I was mistaken.
Here is a portion of his email "...Most PODs publish books in the 6x9 format, which clearly screams POD to the discerning buyer. I typeset my books for a 5.5x 8 format, which is indistinguishable from traditionally published books." and again, "...here's an example of their suggested retail pricing, taken from my most recent book with them, which contains 368 pages. Their suggested retail (so they can recover their costs of the book from the printer, offer a discount to Ingrams, and pay me 25% royalties off the retail price) was $17.99. I upped that price to $18.95, not because I'm greedy, but because traditional publishers usually price their books with the 0.95 ending. Even priced books and those ending in 0.99 are the hallmarks of a amateur company."
And once more, "...At Booksurge, my novel at $18.95 pays me royalty of $4.74 per book sold. It came out in mid November, and I've already been paid almost $1000 in royalties. Booksurge pays royalties on a monthly basis. I don't need to sell nearly as many books to make good royalties each month."
C
