[Jeff Head]

Mine is right at 170,000 words and about 970,000 characters.

POD was by far the cheapest, most reasonable way to go for short runs on the trade pepareback. Same price whether you ored one or three hundred. Traditioanl printing houses wanted 10-11 dollars per at runs of 1,000.

I did find a place called JustBooks.com that can do reall reasonable pricing for runs from 4000 to 10,000 so if I get to that volume and nobody has picked it up, I can have them do it and make good money at reasonable end user prices for both whole sale and my own web sales.

EBook sales (MSReader, Adobe and Activ E-Book) have been fairly good too.

Anyhow, it's been an eye opening and learning experience.

Regards.

[christie]

How many pages and what trim size is your book? Prices seem high. I'm working on the "Clinton Legacy Cookbook" (due out soon through Free Republic) and I have print quotes for about 4.50 per book for 1000 copies, 6 x 9, 352 pages, paperback, shipping additional. The specs have since changed, but this is an example of one print quote.

By the way, congratulations on your book. I'll order one soon.