The productProduction and warehouse
What each copy actually costs you.
Every print run with its printer, its unit cost and its delivery note. Stock by warehouse, and the copies going out to authors, press and fairs, counted one by one. It is the half of the business that appears on no sales spreadsheet.
Contents
01What is in it
- Print runs
- Printer, quantity, unit cost and date. The real cost per copy, not the one you estimated before asking for a quote.
- Delivery notes
- What comes in and what goes out, with its paperwork. Without them, a stock discrepancy cannot be reconstructed.
- Stock by warehouse
- How many and where. More than one warehouse if you need it, which is normal as soon as there is a distributor.
- Outgoing copies
- Authors, press, fairs, complimentaries. Every copy with its destination and its date.
- Reprints
- When to go back to press, based on the rate copies are leaving and the stock left.
- Costs
- What each title has really cost, with the print run in front of you, so you can price with judgement.
The trade
02The vocabulary
- Unit cost
- What it costs to print one copy in that particular run. It falls with quantity, and it is the figure the cover price is decided on.
- Delivery note
- The document accompanying a delivery. It is the proof of what moved and when.
- Reprint point
- The stock level at which you must go back to press to avoid running out mid-campaign, which is when it costs most.
- Press copies
- The ones going out to media and champions. They are neither sales nor the author's complimentaries, and it pays not to mix them.
More areas
03The other six areas
Selection
Submission forms with your branding, analysis of the complete manuscript, reading reports, work plans for the author, and the editorial brain that learns from your decisions.
Catalogue
Book records, ISBN, Thema subjects, ONIX records and metadata feeds, series, typeset catalogues, and the recommendation widget for your site.
Authors
A panel of their own for every author with their sales and statements, an inbox, training, community, writing tools and their author site.
Sales and rights
Sales by channel with their terms and returns, contracts with their royalty tiers, statements that calculate themselves, and the annual report.
Publicity
Press and clippings, media, libraries, bookshops, influencers and the referral programme, each with its own history.
The house
Your branding on everything that goes out, team and permissions, integrations, document templates, plan and billing.
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