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The finished cover was designed to be appropriate and professional. Solutions and CompromisesĬlick to enlargeSince cover design is largely positioning and packaging on commercial books, we were able to do away with most of the time and expense of design development. That doesn’t leave a lot of room for a profit, let alone a wholesale discount.Ĭhallenge: Create a book that can be handled and read, that’s economical to produce, and that minimizes the cost to print as much as possible. A 700 page softcover book at Lightning Source will cost $10.00 each to print.

Unfortunately, digital printers charge by the page, while publishers can’t get away with pricing by the page. The very long manuscript could conceivably create a book of 700 pages or more depending on the size, layout and typography. Without this technology very few books of this nature would be published, since the cost would be prohibitive.īut the nature of the production also presents challenges. Production problem: Digital printing and print on demand make books like The Andrew Street Mob possible. The book tells the author’s firsthand account of growing up amid a group of 40 or more kids in Johannesburg, South Africa in the 1950s.

Raw material: Author Brian Marais submitted an unedited manuscript of 227,000 words and the desire to have a book that looked and read well.

Case Study: The Andrew Street Mob by Brian MaraisĬase Study: The Andrew Street Mob by Brian Maraisĭesign brief: Create a book design and production method to enable an author to publish a personal memoir.Ĭonstraints: The Andrew Street Mob was not designed to be a commercial project, so the economics of the production had to be strictly monitored.