The spines on the left, the cut books on the right and the clear covers in the middle. I line it up and cut off 1/8″ of the spine. And I can bind any future books for only the additional cost of the additional coils. So, for the grand total of $280 I could buy the machines and do the binding myself. The two machines cost about $250 total plus the coils were another $20 and the clear plastic cover sheets were another $10. ![]() I felt that was a little much, so I decided to price out the stack cutter and the binding machine on my own. I factored the price of binding 100 books at $5 each, which obviously was $500. ![]() I ordered 20 copies from Barnes & Noble Press in color so I could spiral bind them myself. I searched more and more and found out that I could get color copies of my book printed for personal use on Barnes & Noble Press. The spiral option is available only by me and my manual labor. Luckily their color costs are about half of Amazon’s so my book sold through Ingram will be in color, but still perfect bound. I also sell my book with a distributor using a different printing service. The cost to print my book in color on Amazon was way more than I wanted to spend and it also would cause me to price my customer out of buying it.īecause of the cost factor associated with Amazon color printing, I chose to have my Amazon book printed in black & white. I also really wanted my book to be color (as well as all my others, but I learned how to do it this time around). I have thought this about all my others as well, but when you self-publish, you are slightly limited with your options. I decided that my newest book would best be viewed in spiral format. Each spiral binding trip cost me about $5 for the binding and covers, plus about an hour of my time to drive there and back and wait. Unfortunately, my Office Depot is the only office supply store in about a 10 mile radius, so they are often overworked and understaffed.įor the last 4 binding projects, I had to drop off the book and wait until the next day to get it spiral bound and even then, they still hadn’t done it. ![]() I almost always spiral bind the drafts of my books while I’m editing, so I am often dropping by the Office Depot to get spiral binding done.
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