July 29, 2003
Blog Entry

CafePress Offers Book Printing & Online Selling

SUMMARY: No summary available.
CafePress is launching its self-publishing and selling platform for book authors sometime this week. (It's in beta now here, where it says the launch is July 28...)
http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/sell/books.aspx

The price is higher than it would cost you to print books or reports at a standard print shop (or Kinkos), but that's because it includes all the online sales backend stuff you need too -- such as a Web page to sell from, a shopping cart, shipping services, and customer service.

Might make sense for anyone who wants to test a book or report sale without investing in building all the backend first. If sales go well enough, then you get serious and move to your own systems....

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