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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 6283381" data-attributes="member: 1">I thought some people might be interested in these.  This is (one of several) set of quotes I got for printing 300-page books for What's O.L.D. is N.E.W.I know folks sometimes discuss printing costs on these boards.  This is just one example.The quotes are for 300 pages, softback and hardback, black-amd-white and color, making four quotes total.  Each has a different unit price based on the number produced.  As you can see, the unit price drops DRASTICALLY when you print more copies.Hardcover colour200 units: $43.10 per book 1000 units: $12.07 per book2000 units: $8.33 per book2500 units: $7.58 per bookSoftcover black-and-white200 units: £12.26 per book1000 units: $4.22 per book2000 units: $3.21 per book2500 units: $3.01 per bookNote that this does NOT include shipping to customers, which is a separate cost altogether, and can be very expensive.Now, these only go up to 2,500 units. Realistically, that's 5,000 total (for 2.5K each of O.L.D. and N.E.W.) which is far, far more than I expect to sell (our ZEITGEIST hardcover KS sold just over 300 copies). So I don't know how that progresses if you're selling a lot more like, say, WotC, does.  I assume the costs come down much further.Anyway, attached below are the full estimates for the four specifications at 200, 1000, 2000, and 2500 unit levels.</blockquote>