RE: Self publishing

["Johan Hiemstra" <webmaster -at- techexams -dot- net>]

>I looked into Trafford briefly on behalf of a client. While I believe 
>that they do what they say they do, it's also true that the services 
>they offer are available at much lower prices elsewhere. In any case, 
>you don't have to get to very high volumes before it makes much more 
>economic sense to look at offset printing rather than print-on-demand 
>(POD). When I priced my client's book, the Trafford POD price was 
>approximately seven dollars a copy, starting at copy number one and not

>diminishing. That was on top of Trafford's fee. The cost to deliver the

>same book, offset printed and perfect-bound, was two dollars and change

>per copy for 1,000 copies. I didn't price it at a lower volume, but 
>clearly POD is an expensive way to go for quantities over several
dozen.

As Bruce also mentioned, it does seem like they are more interested
selling their product than the author's book. 

Can you, or anyone else, recommend a offset printer? What is typically
the minimum volume? 



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