From:
slider@anashram.com
dude you gotta sell a shitload of books
to just break even. It looks like a
fantastic machine, but you gotta be spitting
out books left and right to make any money.
How many would it take to pay for the machine?
Or to just rent or lease that thing?
### - literally a shedload! (laffing...)
must be viable tho' or there wouldn't even be such a thing?
I bet the big publishing houses just love this
idea.
### - they can't stop what's coming? :)
plus yeah, those old publishing houses 'must' be eating their heart out
with the crappy royalties they more traditionally pay (somewhere between
only 7 & 12% IF you're lucky!) whereas amazon (for example) can afford to
pay their authors a whopping great 35% and STILL be earning enough to make
it viable!
no paperbacks currently offered by amazon to oz and the surrounding south
seas areas except by expensive long-haul shipping, so anyone winning
amazon's contract (to print) would likely need several machines just to
cope with the orders...
i dunno the actual figures involved but it must be viable! (240 books per
day = 85,000 per year running flat out + all earning a third of the retail
cost of each item + you'd also earn a small percentage of the shipping
costs involved as well, enough possibly to finance the postal service
itself making it pure profit on the books themselves = maybe a quarter of
a million per annum gross?)
not bad for a solo business and/or for someone sitting back twiddling
their thumbs once it was all set up eh?
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