Mega Digital Online Book Store Business to Consumer Model

The aim is to give our customers an opportunity to sell their books with No cash investment No risk No hassle A higher return

The site is based on true Print on Demand and books are printed only as they are ordered and paid for. Customers choose the book in the megabooks store, choose the delivery option and pay for the book online. The book is printed and sent to the consumer. Royalties are paid to our customer.

The benefits to our customers: No money needs to be spent on a print run No warehousing No risk of printed books not being sold and ending up being pulped No admin effort on the part of the publisher No returns from the book stores No need to deal with the post office or couriers Allows customers to make more frequent alterations or additions to their titles Extra exposure and marketing opportunity for our customers books

The service includes: Hosting of titles on our site Taking customer orders Taking customer payment Printing of books as ordered

Packaging and distribution of books by post or courier Automated email notification to our customers when sales are made of their titles Supplying a monthly report of all sales to each customer Payment of sales commission to the customer

Our customers are expected to market their own titles, and send buyers to our site for ordering. A button is supplied to our customers to include on their sites catalogue pages, which will link to the megabooks site.

How it works in practice: Print-ready PDF files are supplied to Mega. Our customer uploads the description, specifications and thumbnail of their title using this form:

The title is loaded onto the megabooks store by our staff at this stage, but we are busy with automating this process.

Once an order has been placed through megabooks and payment has been made, the book will be printed and sent to the customer by post or courier as chosen by the customer. Customers can choose from various delivery options:

Publishers are sent an automated email every time a purchase is made of one of their titles. At the end of every month, a report is mailed to our customers with a list of all the sales of their titles. Payment will be made at the end of the month for all transactions completed before the 25 th of the month, to allow time for our accounts department to process these payments.

A few examples of how the costing works:

Title 1
Recommended Retail Price POD Print Cost & Handling Fee Royalty due to Author/Publisher Royalty %

Including Excluding VAT VAT R 150.00 R 131.58 R 96.00 R 84.21 R 54.00 R 47.37 36.00% Including Excluding VAT VAT R 160.00 R 140.35 R 116.10 R 101.84 R 43.90 R 38.51 27.44%

Title 2
Recommended Retail Price POD Print Cost & Handling Fee Royalty due to Author/Publisher Royalty %

Title 3
Recommended Retail Price POD Print Cost & Handling Fee Royalty due to Author/Publisher Royalty %

Including Excluding VAT VAT R 200.00 R 175.44 R 105.30 R 92.37 R 94.70 R 83.07 47.35%

Title 4
Recommended Retail Price POD Print Cost & Handling Fee Royalty due to Author/Publisher Royalty %

Including Excluding VAT VAT R 120.00 R 105.26 R 77.30 R 67.81 R 42.70 R 37.46 35.58%

Target markets: Self-publishers whose titles would not be taken up by publishers due to a limited market. Micro publishers who carry niche titles. Mainstream trade publishers, using the service for their niche titles as well as supplying books between print runs. Academic and Educational publishers, selling books direct to the public. Books are often shortdelivered to schools and instead of waiting weeks (or months) for titles to arrive, parents can order books over the internet to be delivered within a week.