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October 5, 2007

POD Industry Business Practices We Find Questionable

Filed under: POD model — richard @ 1:57 pm

Since mid-summer we’ve been running a series called POD Secrets Revealed on our sister site, WritersWeekly.com. It details some of the business practices our competitors engage in that we find questionable.

We’ve built up quite a list of articles, so I decided to post links to them here:

• Upselling Authors On Inflated Copyright And LCCN Registration Fees
  
• Inflated Shipping Charges?
  
• List Prices, Royalties and Author Discounts
  
• Upselling Authors On Expedite Fees, Photos/Images, Indexes, Endnotes, And More!
  
• Hard Core Sales Tactics of Some POD Publishers
  
• “Free” POD Services Can Be Very Expensive!
  
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• How Many Books Sales Needed to Recoup Your Investment?
  

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