Comments on: How to Determine Costs and Profit Publishing with Lightning Source – Part 3 http://learn4me.com/2009/12/18/determine-costs-profit-publishing-lightning-source-part-3/ Discover Better Ways to Make Money Mon, 10 May 2010 21:32:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Gina http://learn4me.com/2009/12/18/determine-costs-profit-publishing-lightning-source-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-230 Gina Sun, 09 May 2010 03:11:07 +0000 http://learn4me.com/?p=643#comment-230 A newbie here: can people order single issues that will be shipped to them from Lightning source? I am assuming they don't have a webpage like other pod's do (Createspace and Lulu) where you can send people to buy your books. If I set up my own webpage for people to order the book will Lightningsource ship say a single book to them? And if so how would I link up the my webpage to Lightningsource to do this? There is a cover generator with the ISBN number where they ask for the price.. how do I determine the price. I didn't see a price calculator (for my fee, Lightning sources fee and retail mark up) on the website so how do I know what to put on it? Do they have a price calculator or list? When you have a price for your ISBN bar code (however I get that? see above...) do you put the price for that you pay on it, and then amazon will add their price to it, or do I put the total retail markup on it? Can they put a barcode on with the price for you? And, I can't figure out the PDF submissions. I have a color cover and all color insides, do I make one PDF that has the front and back called cvr,pdf? And then what is the middle called? I also don't know what to pick for retail discount, I read if you go to low they won't pick you up. How do I choose and when does Lightning source ask for this. P.S. if my book is 7x10 and it's a graphic novel that I want to print all the way to the edge, what information do I put in for trim etc.? It is exactly how I want it right now at 7x10... for some reason the cover template I generated doesn't fit my images! My images are 7x10 but when I put them into the 7x10 cover template my images are too skinny? P.P.S. if I want to sell through Ingram, amazon all retailers, library exposure and individual sales do I pick this one? http://www.lightningsource.com/print_to_publisher.aspx Thank you! Gina A newbie here: can people order single issues that will be shipped to them from Lightning source? I am assuming they don’t have a webpage like other pod’s do (Createspace and Lulu) where you can send people to buy your books. If I set up my own webpage for people to order the book will Lightningsource ship say a single book to them? And if so how would I link up the my webpage to Lightningsource to do this?

There is a cover generator with the ISBN number where they ask for the price.. how do I determine the price. I didn’t see a price calculator (for my fee, Lightning sources fee and retail mark up) on the website so how do I know what to put on it? Do they have a price calculator or list?
When you have a price for your ISBN bar code (however I get that? see above…) do you put the price for that you pay on it, and then amazon will add their price to it, or do I put the total retail markup on it?
Can they put a barcode on with the price for you?

And, I can’t figure out the PDF submissions. I have a color cover and all color insides, do I make one PDF that has the front and back called cvr,pdf? And then what is the middle called?

I also don’t know what to pick for retail discount, I read if you go to low they won’t pick you up. How do I choose and when does Lightning source ask for this.

P.S. if my book is 7x10 and it’s a graphic novel that I want to print all the way to the edge, what information do I put in for trim etc.? It is exactly how I want it right now at 7x10… for some reason the cover template I generated doesn’t fit my images! My images are 7x10 but when I put them into the 7x10 cover template my images are too skinny?

P.P.S. if I want to sell through Ingram, amazon all retailers, library exposure and individual sales do I pick this one? http://www.lightningsource.com/print_to_publisher.aspx

Thank you! Gina

]]> By: How to Determine Costs and Profit Publishing with Lightning Source – Part 4 http://learn4me.com/2009/12/18/determine-costs-profit-publishing-lightning-source-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-127 How to Determine Costs and Profit Publishing with Lightning Source – Part 4 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:39:50 +0000 http://learn4me.com/?p=643#comment-127 [...] Lightning Source.   In Part Two I talked about how much it will cost to print each book.  In Part Three I went into more detail about determining price and calculating profit from your book sales.  In [...] […] Lightning Source.   In Part Two I talked about how much it will cost to print each book.  In Part Three I went into more detail about determining price and calculating profit from your book sales.  In […]

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