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I got this from The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing by Marilyn Ross and Sue Collier – I checked the 2010 version from the library – I should probably get a newer version.

As I probably don’t need to tell you, nine years in internet time is practically infinite and the self publishing space is very different to how it was then. I don’t have the experience or knowledge to lay out how much it has changed, but it definitely has. At the very least, some of those prices listed are absurd.

A pretty good editor for a 100K word book will be less than a thousand, you can get an amazing cover for $300-$600 depending on your genre, and layout only costs a few hundred. And as far as I know, PoD is the only option anyone considers, which requires no up front cost for you and makes up only a tiny fraction of most indie book sales anyway.

Granted, that’s still a huge amount of money, and it doesn’t even touch what you’ll be spending on marketing, but <=$2000 is considerably less than 14K a book.

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