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Best way to sell ebooks as hard books?

by Curtis2011
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I have an ebook for sale on one of my sites. Several customers over the past few years have asked about buying as a hard copy.

Up til now, I've had to tell them that hard copies aren't available. But I'd like to change that if possible.

Is there a service out there that can print my ebook into a real book on a case-by-case basis, and handle the complexities of shipping it the customer for me? Also they would have to adjust the price of the book to cover shipping to all locations around the world, since my ebook customers are all over the place.
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  • Profile picture of the author bojan92
    This is a really good question, because i like hard copy books myself. What you can do is do an agreement with local bookstore they will print and cover your book very cheap. You can find them online call them order a copy and then tell your customer to go and to buy the book from the bookstore.
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  • Profile picture of the author quadagon
    You'll want to look at print on demand companies like lulu com and see which fits you best.
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  • Profile picture of the author pizzatherapy
    Without a doubt the best resource is CreateSpace

    Run by amazon, they will print one book, or a thousand.

    And if you are really interested in self-publishing, check out the Warrior Book Club here at WF.

    An incredible resource which will help you at every step of the way on your journey to publishing your book. While it concentrates on Kindle Books, there are lots of other great book publishing resources. and the other authors and publishers you meet will literally blow you away!

    A small investment which will pay you back many times over.
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  • Profile picture of the author writeaway
    As mentioned above, CreateSpace is great.

    It fits nicely with a call center-based local business sales strategy
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  • Profile picture of the author alexawrenchc
    If you want to print your ebook, it does not matter. If you print a huge quantity, it's charge will be reasonable or, if you print a small quantity, it charge will be high. So You have to decide what should you do.
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    Use Createspace. It can get you on Amazon, bookstores, and can act as your amazing dropshipper if you wanted to sell your physical book solely. Be sure to do backend marketing too though after every sale.
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