Publish Cookbook
Cookbooks, printed right
Full-color, lie-flat friendly and built for the counter. Cookbooks sell on photography, so they need coated paper and full-color printing. A 7×10 or 8×10 trim gives recipes and photos room to breathe; a glossy cover shrugs off kitchen splashes. Keep the page count tight — color pages are the biggest cost driver.
Recommended specs
- 7×10 or 8×10 trim
- Paperback or case-wrap hardcover
- Full color on coated paper (premium color optional)
- Glossy cover, 120–200 pages
What sells in cookbooks
- One recipe per page or spread — cooks hate turning pages mid-step.
- Shoot photos in consistent light so the book feels like one kitchen.
- A hardcover edition is the holiday-gift format; paperback moves at markets and classes.
Real pricing
What a cookbook book costs to print
Live per-copy print costs from our print partners for typical cookbook specs. "You keep" is retail minus card-processing fees and print cost. BookFlarePro takes 0% of your sales. Example shipping: 1 copy, standard shipping to Suwanee, GA (US).
Full-color paperback
7 × 10 in · Paperback · Premium color · 160 pages · Glossy cover
- Print cost per copy
- $12.32
- Interior paper
- 80lb White Coated
- Example retail price
- $29.99
- You keep per sale
- $16.28 (54.3%)
Not offered in this region for this size and binding.
Kitchen hardcover
8 × 10 in · Hardcover · Premium color · 160 pages · Glossy cover
Not offered in this region for this size and binding.
- Print cost per copy
- $26.10
- Interior paper
- 100lb Gloss
- Example retail price
- $39.99
- You keep per sale
- $12.17 (30.4%)