Forced Price Increases Incoming
Just so you Readers know, prices are about to go up for a lot of Indie authors' printed works, and it's not those authors being greedy. It's the stores you shop at being greedy. For any author publishing through IngramSpark, one of the biggest print & distribution platforms in the world , there is a new mandate to increase each book's Wholesale Discount from 30% minimum, to 40% minimum. This price change hurts you, the Reader, and only helps the stores selling these books print-on-demand. Specifically, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the like. This change does not help the author at all, and in many cases costs the author money to comply with these changes. Yes, alot of authors publish exclusively through Amazon KDP . Some are exclusive to Barnes & Noble Press . A small percent publish through Draft2Digital Print , or Lulu , etc. All of these have their own limitations, but the most glaring of which is that many of these print-on-demand services actually prin...