Welcome to Snowfall Press. Thank you for taking the time to look at our site.

As a publisher, you know the book publishing industry is in the throes of transition. You also know it’s not always clear what this transition will yield. Some publishers are embracing this change with open arms; while many are fearful the industry will change beyond recognition and, instead, do not look into the exciting digital options that are emerging.

Snowfall is bullish on the future of publishing and is proactively engaged in driving changes that will help the publisher both today and in the future.

Here are the benefits for publishers who want to partner with Snowfall Press:

• Enable higher gross profit margins
• Easy to set up, profitable long-tail business
• No book will ever have to be out of print
• No minimum order – Snowfall is the leader in the book-of-one technology
• No setup fees – really, none!
• Low cost per book
• Direct customer fulfillment
• Rapid turnaround times – measured in days not weeks
• Flexible shipping and delivery options
• You control your print schedule
• Reduced or zero inventory
• Publish new authors without committing to high initial print runs.

Cost of digital printing
Isn’t digital printing expensive? This is a question we hear often – particularly from a publisher’s production department. That question is often followed by, “We printed this book for $1.50, are you able to beat that price?”  On the surface it looks like the answer is no, but any CFO or accountant will tell you that the cost of a book is more than dividing the overall printing cost by the number of books printed.

We all know the cost of running a car is not the selling price divided by the months it is being financed. You have to add in the cost of gas, maintenance, replacement of tires, and the insurance – just to get close to the real cost of owning a car. It is no different with book printing - you have to look at the fully burdened cost.

Fully burdened cost of printing
The preceding chart illustrates how fully burdened costing works. This is just an example, every publisher has different criteria to analyze. Whatever your particulars are, if you have never looked at printing from a fully burdened point of view you can quickly see that an offset-printed book costs about the same as a digitally-manufactured one. And the digital version is the same or better quality and can get to market today…not weeks from now. So your inventory turn and profit margins become healthier more quickly.

Want to know more?
We have much more to tell you. If you would like to learn more about Snowfall Press, click here. (takes you to the About us…what makes us tick page).