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Originally Posted by Justin Nemo
Another thorny subject no doubt and one that has been thrashed out in these forums before. I read somewhere recently that new authors should expect to pay at least $25,000 to get their new book published and onto the market. What is your experience?
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$25,000! Wow. Someone's being taken for a ride.
You should be paying nothing if a commercial publisher wants to publish your book. Indeed, you should be getting paid.
If you want to publish your book yourself, you might want to pay someone for to do quality layout and cover design and/or ebook production. But that would come to nowhere near $25,000. Think one eighth that.
Of course, self-publishing won't get your book into bookstores, but you can get a PoD distributed through Amazon, and ebook distributed at Amazon, Apple, B&N, etc. And even paying someone to do all that should be relatively inexpensive.
$25,000! Good grief.