Confused about how much "Profit" I will make.
If I use the Set Your Price (in US Dollars), I see that I can Set the Base Price for my book plus the amount of Profit I want to make. So if I want to make $10 profit (just for example) then I could set the base price at $30 and sell the book for $40. Then Blurb takes $5 out of my $10? So i’d only get $5 back so then I’d have to mark it up $15 to get $10 back, right? Ok if I have THAT right, then how do I know the profit if I do NOT use Set your Price and just sell them using the default prices? Searching the FAQs all I find is this mysterious answer; "You get a check every month your book reaches a certain amount of profit. If you earn less than that, your profits roll over to the following month. " Or does one not get anything back at all if they don’t use Set Your Price? Thanks in advance! What is the amount of profit? How is it determined?
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BlackDoll, As I understand it, it works like this. Blurb charges (for example) $29.95 for your book. This is the price you pay and is the "base price". When you sign up for SYP, you can add as much to that price as you wish. So, say you want to mark it up $10.00, the price to anyone buying your book will be $39.95. Of that amount $29.95 goes to pay Blurb and their printers, and $10.00 will be credited to your account. When your account accrues $25.00 or more (in this case after the sale of 3 books) in any month you will recieve a check. In this case it would be for $25.00. That’s $10.00 profit for each book sold ($30.00) minus the $5.00 service charge. If you only sell 2 books in a month, you won’t reach the $25.00 threshold for payment, and the $20.00 profit for that month will role over to the next month untill the total in your account gets to or exceeds $25.00. If you buy your own book again, you’ll only pay the base price of $29.95. David
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BlackDoll, Sorry, I didn’t address the second part of your question. You’re right, if you don’t use SYP, you receive no profit, and the book will be sold at the base price. The base price is determined by the size and number of pages and cannot be changed by you. It’s the price Blurb has set so they can make a profit for a given size book.
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Thank you David. Guess I’ll be using the Set Your Price program! I guess that’s the way to go…and this certainly isn’t for those looking to make money. Ok thanks!
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