An extremely helpful tool for any Book-publisher.
Calculates printing cost with Content, Cover and Index cost separately.
Calculates Lamination, Binding Embossing and Cutting cost.
Estimates M.R.P for a given GP, Discount, Royalty and Promotional Specimen Copy.
Estimates Author's Royalty.
Calculates Turnover for the project.
Analyses cost share for each component enabling better cost distribution.
Calculates typesetting and other editorial production budget.
Back calculate everything for a given M.R.P.
Inputs are simple.
Saves time for budgeting by over 90%
Enables the publisher to pre-calculate and compare many possible projects before finalising the most profitable one.
No other tool is available in the market.
The calculator is clearly NOT designed for US publishers, as it's not giving the numbers we use, and focusing on things that we offload onto the printers who are giving us the PPB in their RFQs.
MarionGropen 5 months ago