How much does it cost to publish a book of poems at your own expense?

It has become possible for ordinary people to write an autobiography for themselves, print a "pamphlet" for their novels and write a blog book for themselves. Although strictly speaking, this is not an official publication, but a book, this personal "publishing book" craze has quietly spread in Shanghai. As long as the publishing house provides the content, it can be made into books, and each book costs only tens of yuan. Publishing books is no longer a distant dream.

A website that can also print personal books has appeared in Shanghai.

06: 50 August 30, 2006

Personal publishing websites appear in Shanghai.

Recently, China's first personal publishing website appeared in Shanghai. The website tells people with a series of eye-catching slogans such as "unexpectedly low price", "high quality, fast production speed", "professional book production" and "perfect works with personalized design" that personal publishing will no longer be a dream. The wave of personal publishing is on the rise.

You can print a copy.

On the personal publishing website, the reporter saw the most striking line on the homepage of the website: "When a book is printed, it will turn your work into the permanent stain of life."

Can anyone really print books as promised by the website? Mr. Gong, the person in charge of the website, told the reporter: "Netizens only need to follow the operation steps to upload their works, and they will receive books with your name printed on them in just a few days. Even if you only print one copy, we won't refuse. " It is understood that most of the books printed on this website are young netizens, and their books have a wide range of contents and forms: blog collections, personal poetry collections, novels, and photos with pictures as the main style.

The operation process of printing books is also very simple. You just need to go to the website to register for free, become a registered member, and then click "I want to print books" to start experiencing the production of personalized books. Upload your own text works and pictures to the website, and then choose your favorite template to edit the manuscript and pictures to complete the typesetting. The next step is to choose the content of the service according to the actual needs, including whether the book binding is hardcover or paperback and other requirements. At this point, your book printing order has been successfully issued, and you will receive a reply from the website customer service within 24 hours.

How much does it cost to publish a book?

So, will it be expensive to publish such a book? Generally speaking, the related expenses of publishing a book can be divided into prepress design, publishing and printing. Suppose you want to publish a 32-page, 300-page traditional book, the cost is probably ISBN fee, design recording and film arrangement fee, paper printing and binding fee, and other fees ***5 1000-58,000 yuan. It can be seen that individuals need to spend money to publish books in publishing houses.

However, in this personal publishing website, the reporter made a rough calculation. If the inner page is 200 pages, it will be 26 yuan (0. 13 yuan per page), and you can also add color pages (0 1.5 yuan per page), plus the binding fee of 42 yuan. After all, printing a 32-inch hardcover book with 200 pages, color cover and black and white pages can be done without 80 yuan. Mr. Lao Xu, a 77-year-old retired worker, printed 15 "Memoirs": the first half is memories of his parents, and the second half is a summary of his work in these years. It never costs 500 yuan.

"According to the traditional publishing model, it takes at least tens of thousands of yuan for an individual to publish a book, and thousands of copies are printed at every turn, which is likely to cause a backlog of unsalable sales; On the personal publishing website, printing a book only costs tens of dollars, and it is economical and does not waste resources. " Mr. Gong said.