Depending on who you are going through, I am doing a POD and it is $30 per proof, offset printed proof can be a lot more, I looked at one printer and they wanted $165 per. It is time consuming, and weird things happen, like the cover image gets shifted, so back again you go.
So, with something as aggressively complicated as Knock -- and thus be more potentially prone to errors with things being improperly offset, or whatever -- they probably need to have $1,000 (or whatever the Catalan equivalent is) on hand?
Depends, if your proof is coming from China ... who knows? You always find things though, so you have to submit a new file. I think many do go though the whole process before the kickstarter, and use it as advertising.
In this case, it sounds like it's coming from Basque country, which is relatively close to them. No idea what Basque printing costs, though.
Totally, that is not an unreasonable amount. The kickstarter might also set the number for the print run, like initial order is say a thousand books, though if the ks does well they will order more.
A lot of European stuff is printed in the Baltics, still fairly close, at least by American standards. Though I watch here, and a large amount of books in the US are printed in China.
That really wouldn’t work. You’d have no clue how many books to print. Printing too many or not enough could ruin you, financially. Especially when talking about relatively high-cost products like full-color hardback RPG books. More than likely people honestly use Kickstarter to find out how many books to print. They probably get quotes from a few printers and check schedules to make sure they’re available. Etc.
Wow! Your ignore list must be huge. I've been told that I'm one of the mist ignored people here, yet I only miss a few posts per page on average. Didn't miss a single one on the page I just quoted you on.
You mean those majestical beings who have evolved beyond footwear?
