$30,000 for an 80 page book in 1,000 copies is not out of line at all if you want to work with a quality printer.

You would only have to sell the book for $30 to break even on the printing and binding.

It costs us a lot more than $30,000 for a much smaller book than 80 pages, but we print our Lodima Press books in Belgium in 600-line screen quadtone and as someone said earlier in this thread: "you get what you pay for."

On the other hand, it is possible to get quality books printed in China, and they are considerably less expensive to produce than those printed in the USA or in Europe.

Michael A. Smith