With the Internet taken care of, what about a small print run of your title for your book launch, your press review copies, your special signed editions (which you can sell directly from your website) or for sale at readings or arts festivals?
Cyberscribe works with Sprint Print in Rathcoole, a state of the art digital printers in Ireland, who are proven in the field of quality paperbacks and hardbacks (not every printer does this). An author can also work with Ingram Spark’s print on demand service for even smaller print runs, as required, instead of making a potentially disastrous and expensive investment of funds for a thousand books at a time.
The adventurous author can even take on local distribution in independent book shops supplying them from the short print run. But bookshop distribution drives, as with marketing and publicity, are up to the author.