I am happy to announce that I have published and released our first print-on-demand book. It is the first major step to updating our publishing business model.  The book is Jerry Hoganson’s “Making Money Through Mobile Home Investing”.

The book turned out great. Dealing with the printer was relatively smooth considering this was my first go-around.

My second print-on-demand book will be “TurnKey Publishing”, the long-delayed book on my publishing system.  The manuscript had to be updated and revised for the 6-month hiatus the project took.  The book should be available for pre-sale around the Thanksgiving holidays.

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.