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Textbook Trade In Store!
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Textbook Trade In Store Questions
What does it cost for a publishing house to design, print, market and distribute a paperback book?
I’m looking for stats and info on book production costs for larger publishing houses: I’m interested primarily in “trade publications” (meaning for the consumer), both fiction and non fiction, although other markets, like textbook production, might help as well. I’m also wondering what costs the big box stores attribute to a book sitting on the shelf. Any suggestions on where to look?
You might want to check the Bowker annual for actual statistics.
That is a big question that really depends on where the book sits on their list. Someone like Stephen King would most likely get more marketing afunds than a lesser known, mid-list author.
Some books have publicity budgets of $75,000 some only have $5000. For big books with huge advances, publishers will plunge hundreds of thou into marketing and advertising in order to attempt to ear back the advance which is extremely difficult to do for books with advances in the millions.
The publishers pay Barnes& Noble etc big bucks to place books in high traffic areas. They call this coop and not every book will get it.
Textbook Trading Services Provide Incredible Value for Students
Do students really get the most possible value out of their textbook purchases? To many college and university students, textbooks are meant to be bought, utilized, and sold. This process is intuitive, but is it the best for students? The answer is, probably not. Students buy textbooks for as much as $200, use them for less than four months, and resell them to campus bookstores to regain roughly a mere thirty-five percent of the purchase price.
Many website services have been established to compete with campus bookstores for a slice of the used textbook markets. While these services provide better buyback prices than campus stores, these services fail to give students anywhere near the maximum value of their books, often reselling used books at considerably higher prices. Consequently, these textbook buyback services are comparable to traditional campus bookstores.
Yet, another type of internet textbook service is one that creates marketplaces for people to buy and sell textbooks. However, these marketplace services often charge a hefty commission fee to sellers. The fee can be as much as eighteen percent of the textbook value, thereby taking a considerable chunk of the seller’s proceeds. Moreover, many of the textbook sellers on these marketplace services are bookstores that resell used books at marked up prices. Therefore, marketplace services can have the same disadvantages for students as the campus bookstore model.
The best possible textbook exchange service for students is one that creates an environment where only students may participate. This ensures that students retain the maximum value of their textbooks by directly exchanging books with each other.
Textlister.com creates such an environment for students and goes a step further by providing a system for students to trade textbooks without the need to exchange money. Textbook trading services designed solely for student use give college and university students the best value for their textbooks.
About the Author
Ryan Barclay is a staff writer for the student community section of www.textlister.com
