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Originally Posted by dadioflex
"I know of one lady who sells cookbooks at craft shows all over the US. It has no ISBN, nor is it listed in Ingram or any major distributor. And yet she sells something like 10,000 copies a year."
No she doesn't.
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Actually, yes she does. I've seen the order receipts. (Plus I know the guy who does her POD runs) About once every year around February she swings by, orders 10,000 books, picks them up, and then hits the road again. So yeah, she sells them like hotcakes. And yes, it's technically a self published cookbook. It's like DaringNovelist said, with the right connections and the right skills, you can sell books like mad.
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Originally Posted by DaringNovelist
I was just pointing out that the person you were disagreeing with was not wrong. (Edit: Okay he did say POD - but in the context I took his meaning as not the technology but the fact that the woman did it on her own, not through a publisher.)
Camille
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Correct. A POD printer doesn't necessarily need to be a publisher too, such as is the case with a vanity press. In this case the POD she goes through is a local print shop who is large enough to do runs like that for her at a good price. In fact, they also do POD for a lot of self published authors as well. And when I said POD, I did not mean "vanity press" just FYI. Print on Demand can be done by a regular print shop. In fact, that's technically what they do anyways. You demand, they print.
But the one around here is specifically setup to do orders like that. Just phone in the order and pick it up a few days later. Of course, their rule they use to determine the total amount of time it takes to do a print run is something like this: 1000 books = 1 day production time. So for every 1000 books you order, it'll take 1 day total processing time. So for her 10,000 book order, she'd phone it in on Monday, and pick it up the following Friday.