3 Comments on “Self Publish Books in Indonesia”

1. timdog Says:
   March 19th, 2008 at 5:56 am

   Very interesting…
   Ross, could you give a basic idea of what the printers charge per hundred books or whatever volume you had printed (and obviously a rough idea of the word-count/page numbers we’re talking about).

2. Ross Says:
   March 19th, 2008 at 2:13 pm

   Yes, my first printer, a little Acehnese guy in Narogong, charged me about 28000 per book, approx 200 pages, 350 words per page, big ‘coffee-table’ size tome. (Red-Handed in Aceh, so maybe he sympathised)
   I only got a hundred done for the first print order and when I’d sold them, I just went back for more. His cheap rates enabled me to include P and P in the prices quoted. But sending a bunch of them overseas- big market in my Old Countries,
   – was dear, which is why I charged a high mark-up locally , to subsidise foreign sales.
   Another printer in Kebon Jeruk overcharged me for Maid In Singapore, but did quite a good job, 45000 per book, much smaller. I’ll need to go home and check the page numbers, etc.
   Like I say, I don’t do it to make money. It’s fun, and if you have something to say, you can get the message across in novel form better than by overt propaganda.f

3. Ross Says:
   March 25th, 2008 at 8:54 pm

   I’ll keep publishing regardless. For details, please email my public access address, morfinybooks@yahoo.ca
   And by the way, I take pride in publishing books under my own name. Does anyone know who that yellow pinko liar is, runs a blog but goes by the name of Treehugger or some such nonsense? Says I can’t read Indonesian, but lacks the guts to put his real name to his drivel?

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