“There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” They do not care about how much copies are getting sold. If you check the production cost per book you can see a huge difference. The way we design pricing, the chance is quite high that the author can recover investments within a short period of time.
Along with that, POD services like c*******e or p**** do not offer ISBN, availability in other popular platforms both nationally or internationally. The best thing is, we also take care of helping the author to give the beat possibly try to push the book to be in limelight and increase the sales. Let us take an example. Free publishing house ABCD can get as many as 100 authors published in a few months, as they are free. They can set production cost of a book INR 140.00 where they eam INR 100.00 per sale to keep the revenue model alive. If they sell 1 books for each of the authors, they can earn 1100100 = INR 10,000.00 from 100 authors. Now consider us, where the production cost for the same book is “honestly announced” as INR 45.00. Because the process of publishing is not free, say we are only covering 10 serious authors. Because of the payments made, the quality of the book becomes per International standard. Now to get the same amount of profit from the book sales, how many books are to be sold?
Let us consider a profit of INR 5.00 per book. 10,000/5 = 2,000 books are to be sold. So, to earn the same amount of profit, we have to sell 2,000/10 = 200 books for each author. Considering MRP is at least double of the production cost, the free publishing house ABCD will set the MRP at INR 280.00, and we may set as INR 90.00. Which book will have the chance of getting sold?
On top of that, quality matters. None of those free publishing companies will format and beautify your book interior and will help you to design the book cover as per latest standards. They work like a printer and print “As Is”. That is why many of our authors express happiness with us after they had felt humiliated with those kinds of free book publishing process. After all, you may print your word document from your home or office printer. Why would you pay someone unless they are providing you some expertise to let your word document transform into a book?