As it stands now, there are thirty products which have numbers assigned to them and there are still another six or so needing to be included. For now, we will be concentrating on the Gnome-sized books. I'm trying to balance the budget and determine the margins, but it looks like it will be very difficult to offer a full margin, unless a buyer wants to purchase and entire press run of 25k or more books. We'll see how it goes after all the covers are locked in with the new barcodes. I'm guessing at the cost elements, based on previous quotes.
Although I have some of the production line set up, there's more to do. I'm building tooling for the Hand-stitched binding, but I have come to the conclusion that the cost of the hand-stitched will just have to be added on, no matter what that is. So the hand-stitched edition is being defined as the Custom Edition, while the machine bound books are referred to as the Standard Edition. As I said before, the Custom Edition is only being offered direct from IMS Publishing. If a retailer is willing to pay the higher price, the Custom Edition may be available to them for resale, but I rather doubt that they will pay the extra money for hand-stitched binding. The Custom Editions are limited, mostly because of how long it takes to make them. So, one at a time, or 25-50 is no problem as to turn-around within a week or so, but larger quantities have a longer wait time for delivery. If you are a buyer, keep that in mind. I will take orders for the first book via email at any time, however, there are still registrations that need to take place before the items can be shipped. I can begin making books as soon as I get a prepaid order. So a larger order of Custom Books will need lead time to complete manufacturing.
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That's all for now.
AG
p.s. we are working on more art and have been discussing work on the music.
