Making the work
Growing an audience
Running the business
2 tools that solve a similar problem. Compare what each costs and what it covers.
Print and sell a book with no minimum order
Prints and sells a book with no minimum order and nothing up front, covering the same one-copy-at-a-time job with selling built in.
Print a book into the retail supply chain
Prints a book into the retail supply chain, free to start; the distributor route Blurb's own listing recommends for a text-only novel headed to retail.