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There is no better way to illustrate the ministry and mission value of what Snowfall Press is doing, than to share this story of one of our publishers.
Geoff serves with an international missions agency dedicated to reaching the unreached people groups around the globe. The challenge in some of these remote areas is that printing is very difficult and very expensive. Many times, the demand for a book will be just tens or hundreds of copies, which makes traditional printing a difficult decision. These missions groups are making the Bible and other resources available to these groups for the first time.
Missions work, thanks to technology advances, has a come a long way. The laptop and word processing programs are critical tools today. Even in the jungle, the world continues to get smaller as communication tools get better. In Geoff’s case, all of his email communication is done over HF radio. It’s very slow and doesn’t allow the internet at this point, but it does give him a way to send and receive small emails. There is an internet option (it’s on his wish list) but it’s expensive (about $3000 to set up and then about $300 a month). Eleven months out of the year, this is one of the only communication options in the jungle. When Geoff is done with his manuscripts, he has to wait until one of his visits out to town to upload the files to Snowfall Press.
Even with this sort of infrastructure as part of the ministry, other mission teams are excited about Snowfall Press and its possibilities. When compared to the in house service…”Snowfall Press can’t be beat. Geoff says, “It’s often difficult to staff our little in-house print service. And with Snowfall Press we’re getting proper books instead of the more fragile comb or spiral bound books.” He also reports that the cost (even after shipping) is way better, and in some cases the timing is even quicker. Everything is better.
Geoff says, “The place where Snowfall Press really will make a difference over and against the typical offset printing that people do for the NT translations, is that Snowfall Press makes it much more cost effective when you’re printing less than several thousand copies. That’s most of the people groups we’re working in here.”
Snowfall Press is a service provider for content creators. Whether these creators are missionaries in the jungle, or are large traditional publishers, independent publishers, authors, catalog companies, ministries, churches…and the list goes on; Snowfall Press is designed to put this content into bound softcover books…one book at a time.
What are other ways this technology can be used? Have you ever considered using a bound book for your content rather than going down to the local copy shop to print it?
Six months ago, I joined Snowfall Press as a consultant, working with their business development team to craft a strategy to reach authors, micro publishers and mid/large publishers especially in the Evangelical Christian Publisher’s Association (ECPA) area.
In June, I began to focus more of my time on this project and launched a new company around Snowfall Press (more info to come). This solution is perhaps the most exciting deal going in the industry.
Let me share a testimonial from a small publisher that we talked to a few months ago, who was very happy with his current, solution, but who took Snowfall Press up on the offer I am going to give to you. These are his words…
“When Snowfall came calling, we almost disregarded their offer entirely, we’d been so happy with the other printer. But when they said there were no upload fees and could make as many corrections as we wanted, for free, we started listening. Then when their unit costs were significantly lower than the other printer–in some cases unit costs were half of what we had been paying–we really started paying attention. When I saw that the quality of the books was every bit as good with Snowfall as at the other printer, our list of reasons to keep paying more had gotten very short. Best of all, suddenly we had the ability to dream about trying new things and getting our books into new places–like CBD–that we could never have done at the other printer. Now we’re spending less and earning more”.
Snowfall Press is a next generation digital book printer who enables authors and publishers to go from manuscript to selling books within hours. Snowfall delivers this capability with better quality and low costs. By fully automating make-ready and production Snowfall brings more revenue and profit to authors and publishers. And the best part is that you can be your own printer! With Snowfall Press you choose when to get the printing started – no waiting days for a customer rep to get back to you. Snowfall has just launched a brand new website. Check it out! (http://snowfallpress.com)
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There is no fee to setup a Snowfall Press account and you never have to call anyone to get quotes or to put your book in the system.
So, dig out those unpublished manuscripts! Dust off the great ideas that are too good to let sit idle. Snowfall Press believes you will be so excited about this revolutionary process that they want to give you a chance to print your first copy for free!*
It is Snowfall’s goal to help authors, publishers and small businesses be more successful.
Don’t have a traditional book to print? Here are some other ways Snowfall serves people:
How can you imagine using this technology?
*First time customers.
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