The document discusses print-on-demand (POD) publishing and several POD platforms including Trafford Publishing, Lulu.com, and Blurb.com. Trafford was one of the first POD companies and owns its own printing plant. Lulu offers the widest range of products and selling channels and keeps no inventory. Authors set retail prices on Lulu and receive 80% of profits. Blurb offers book design software and prints books on demand starting at $4.9 per book. The document examines the benefits of POD for publishers and consumers.

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26. LULU.COM: PRICING n COST The retail price for the published item is determined based on printing costs, the author’s margin set by the author, and the fee charged by the distributor for distributed items. Printing costs for books are correlated to the page count, paper size, binding type, and color or black-and-white print. The author's margin is partitioned into 80% for the author and 20% for Lulu. PRINT ON DEMAND

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