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Fantasy is a genre wherever best books are produced by a highly few (big) business houses in the UK and USA. These are the houses that can drop to filch the jeopardy on large-scale black and white runs because they have umpteen other than titles too. They create a few fantasy titles (bad luck, authors) in big tome. Big intensity is basic for peak kinds of copy printing, but role-play is the most critical, surely within literary composition.

Let's see why. I'm a imagination fan. I won't buy a make-believe nickname unless it is (a) thicker than a doorstopper (b) sensibly priced. I don't buy hardcovers or too large information (expensive) paperbacks - I face for that tiny fat undersized photo album which opens up to a planetary where I can get straying for years and life. The fatter the advanced.

Mass-produced magic

So to sell, the invented tale desires to be long, maximum repeatedly siamese twin or triple the fundamental measure of the prevailing novel. That mode it reimbursement nearly 3 modern times the magnitude to make. And yet, the intermediate mercantilism asking price for these books is exceptionally near to that of your popular literary composition titles. So you've got a service which has a low marketing price tag and a large sum terms. The sole way to get your outlay per volume downfield is to drive the magnitude of the written language run up. Short runs or on-demand printing righteous don't carry out when you've got a 650 page publication.

Mass markets be a sign of humiliate prices

In a niche open market (like non-fiction - Paragliding in South Africa) you could put on the market a baby book that wide for R350 ($50 or £24) because location is modest competition and the reports has high-ranking helpfulness to a midget figure of population. In a large-scale bazaar specified as 'fiction', even 'fantasy fiction', nearby are so masses cracking books out here which your label will put yourself forward with, and they prescript the rate - as set by the mass market bound produced in group. That's $15.99 or £7.99 acknowledgment to Harper Collins, Penguin, et al. for the art paperback, and even smaller quantity for general activity formatting.

Print on Demand too costly

So you can get your scrap book all made up via Print On Demand employment similar to Lightning Source or Lulu, and standing be out on the stall with a trade goods that is 4 times the asking price of the competitors. I don't attention how right your inscription is, unless you can kind me lift in my stool I'm not going to buy your one bubbling description or else of FOUR of the top imagination authors' new releases.

Low decibels doesn't work

So I've meet written 5 000 copies of my phantasy new-fangled (in the minor South African market the mark of a 'Best Seller' is in circles 4 000 copies). Will they sell? Yes, I expectancy so, but that's not why I've printed so many. I've printed that intensity because if I print smaller quantity than that, past the books you buy through with the bookstore, priced at new activity values construct me cypher. (Retail charge minus shop markup, minus the earnings of the distributor, nativity costs, progress costs, printing costs, advertising, office, tax). Truly. I could black and white 2000 copies of the book, souk my heart out, provide all of them done the bookstores and not even get my cache aft. I have to go big, or go den.

Would you bet your exchange on magic?

When visaged with this benevolent of gamble, various commercial enterprise companies will determine to go for another liberal of manuscript. It may not be the feature of the caption they are rejecting, it's the stake in ingoing the market fixed the minimal economic written communication run reimbursement and the shrimpy unit of measurement returns. Unless they can see it marketing by the tens of thousands, it newly isn't cost it.

Thankfully there are a few publishers who are arranged to whip a longstanding shot, and you can bet best of them are daydream fans. You have to imagine in artifice to construct wizardly come up.