Saul found a solution at a local book store, Politics and Prose, and its Espresso Book Machine, which allows customers to print their own paperback books, complete with full-color covers.
“They can either bring in their Word document and we can turn that into a PDF, help them with the formatting," says Bill Leggett, a consultant at the store. "Or if someone is capable, they can bring in the PDFs of the cover and the book, and we will just print it.”
No project is too big or too small. The price starts at $7 a book, plus two cents a page and it takes just a few minutes to create. Since the store introduced the Espresso Book Machine in November, it has printed about 6,000 books.
“People have printed memoirs, family histories, manuals, teaching aids,” says Leggett.
The self-published books are sold in the store and by the individual authors.
John Saul posted book signing flyers in gymnasiums, libraries and grocery stores. He also passed them out by hand in the community, which is how Phyllis Clover learned about "Candle in the Window."
“I haven’t sat down and read his book yet," Clover says, "but I do look forward to it.”
John Saul expects to be back at Politics and Prose at the end of the year - to print his next book.
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