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You also forgot to mention that Bookbaby charges you per change, you get one FREE change a year and after that is $50 a pop... Changes on SW FREE no matter how many. Then the ISBN is $19... ISBN on SW FREE... Then a $19 yearly listing fee, no yearly listing FEE on SW
Now we get into the meat of BB charges, they generously let you have 10 FREE images in your book and then charge $2 per image. So for my latest book which was an illustrated tale it would cost me out of pocket.
$99 - Book Conversion Fee
$19 - For ISBN
$19 - Yearly listing Fee
$22 - To insert all images
$159 out of pocket.
Now because I am crap I had to do two changes to the book once I eBooked it, minor things but niggling enough for me to change... So used up my FREE change and would have to pay BB $50 for the second change.
$209 out of pocket.
Now I noted BB offers advance formatting for books they judge need it, which is $150 an hour on top of the other fee's. Now if I want to make it a little different and personalized there is another set of fee's on top of that. A little bit confusing and a lot of fee's that seemed designed to take money from an Author and give little value added back. I kinda get antsy when I see this....
Each to there own, but starting out going with the SW option seems to be the better road as you find your feet. Someone who doesn't make money unless you make money is more motivated to push your material than someone who took their money upfront.
Fee listing is on there website I don't want to fall foul of any bizarre linking rules here on MR so use Google to find it.
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