Er, have you looked at the price of books recently? GBP6.99 for most of them for a mass market paperback with around 100 (not 200) pages. 'Trade' p/b around 10 pounds. (I'm talking about shelf price, not the massive discounts places like Amazon can get, often on US imports where they are cheaper anyway.)
No, you're not going to have a massive profit, but then authors hardly ever do get that much per book once the publishers have taken their cut. It depends whether you want to get them "out there" in hard copy (because some of us want to read comfortably in bed, not at a screen).
Oh, and some of us would indeed buy your books at that price. The nice thing about Lulu is that since they only print on demand you don't actually have to pay them for a 'run' of a thousand or more books which they then don't sell.
I can tell you that you have at least one guaranteed sale -- me. Do that book at anything up to 15 pounds in p/b (I'll go more if you do it as hardback) and I'll buy it. The same for Austin (as I recall that is novel-length) and for a collection of the other Nyrond stories. It will be a darn sight cheaper than trying to print them out and have them bound myself (limit on that is 64 pages, and that's pushing the lmits of the stapler)...
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No, you're not going to have a massive profit, but then authors hardly ever do get that much per book once the publishers have taken their cut. It depends whether you want to get them "out there" in hard copy (because some of us want to read comfortably in bed, not at a screen).
Oh, and some of us would indeed buy your books at that price. The nice thing about Lulu is that since they only print on demand you don't actually have to pay them for a 'run' of a thousand or more books which they then don't sell.
I can tell you that you have at least one guaranteed sale -- me. Do that book at anything up to 15 pounds in p/b (I'll go more if you do it as hardback) and I'll buy it. The same for Austin (as I recall that is novel-length) and for a collection of the other Nyrond stories. It will be a darn sight cheaper than trying to print them out and have them bound myself (limit on that is 64 pages, and that's pushing the lmits of the stapler)...