The TurnKey Publishing Blog by Matthew S. Chan » Digital Printing http://turnkeypublisher.com/blog Commentaries on Independent Publishing, Audio Publishing, CEO Publishing, Accelerated Publishing, and Self-Publishing Sat, 05 Jun 2010 21:51:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 My First Print-On-Demand Book with Lightning Source http://turnkeypublisher.com/blog/2008/09/15/my-first-print-on-demand-book-with-lightning-source/ http://turnkeypublisher.com/blog/2008/09/15/my-first-print-on-demand-book-with-lightning-source/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:52:59 +0000 Matthew Chan http://turnkeypublisher.com/blog/?p=28 I am happy to report that my first print-on-demand book produced by Lightning Source is coming along nicely.  It is an entirely digital process with no hard-copy except the first proof that was delivered last week.  The proof looks pretty good except I made a left-margin error that had to be corrected.  At $40 per revision and $30.00 per proof, this can up pretty quickly if you are not careful.

As I suspected, Lightning Source’s print-on-demand technology has tremendous ramifications in the independent and micro-publishing world.  It is getting to the point where startu-up costs on any given book title will be negligible.

I am already at work preparing the next title for print-on-demand.

]]> http://turnkeypublisher.com/blog/2008/09/15/my-first-print-on-demand-book-with-lightning-source/feed/ 0 Moving to Print-On-Demand & Short-Run Printing http://turnkeypublisher.com/blog/2008/09/04/moving-to-print-on-demand-short-run-printing/ http://turnkeypublisher.com/blog/2008/09/04/moving-to-print-on-demand-short-run-printing/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:18:17 +0000 Matthew Chan http://turnkeypublisher.com/blog/?p=26 I will soon be publishing my first book using digital print-on-demand and short-run printing.  I am publishing a new book for an investor friend of mine, Jerry Hoganson.  The upcoming title is “Making Money Through Mobile Home Investing”.

It has been an interesting experience and I will be writing more about it in my upcoming book “TurnKey Publishing”.

The proof is being sent for me to review.  If all goes well, the new title should be available for sale within the next couple of weeks.

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