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Booksurge.com Print on Demand Review
Booksurge is a subsidiary of Amazon.com and offers services for authors, publishers, and bookstores to provide book publishing, printing, warehousing, and distribution. Unlike many other print on demand publishers, Booksurge owns its own equipment and distribution channels. There are many benefits to being a part of the inventory chain of Amazon.com, but you can get similar benefits from other POD publishers.
Book Publishing Packages
BookSurge offers many of the package features you expect from a POD publisher. Unlike other POD publishers, BookSurge also offers the ability to customize your package, and offers specific packages for specific genres. Generally speaking, the BookSurge POD packages are a little pricier than its competitors.
Most authors will choose one of the four Total Design Freedom Packages. The prices range from $799 to $5,999. The major difference between the first two packages and the last two is a copy editing service. If you do not need copy editing, the first two packes ($799 and $1,367) will work nicely for you. For the extra $368, you get 5 additional copies of your book, a publicity pack, and a custom copy writing service for the cover text. In our opinion, the extras are not worth $368, you could get most of these extras for far less - and if you wrote an entire book and cannot think of creative copy text, you might be in the wrong line of work.
Other Services
BookSurge offers a variety of additional services from press release creation and distribution to poster creation. We are impressed with the variety of services offered and the reasonable prices. Though you could easily perform many of these services yourself - finding other less expensive companies - if you want a one stop ...
Read More >>By Jeremy Reis on Saturday, July 26, 2008 in Publishing | Comments (15991) | Permalink
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