hi. zac here. this is a thread for people who make and sell indie books. i see a lot of people making the act of shipping books needlessly hard on themselves and i want help 1/x

i just printed and shipped ~40 copies of a book i co-wrote with giacomo pope. before this, I'd shipped a few books one at a time. now here is my current, efficient method: 2/x

buy some cheap bubble mailers off the internet. like $15 for 50 mailers. they have little peel-away strips to seal them. our book was 4.5"x6.5" so i used 6x9 mailers. roomy but still sleek. could fit extra prizes in there too. 3/x

put your book in a mailer and weigh it on a coffee or drug scale, in ounces. a digital scale costs less than $10 online. i use one for coffee. our book in the mailer was 7.2oz. 4/x

here's the really useful bit. google how to print a shipping label from paypal. it's free, i mean, you just pay for the postage. you can do it through usps or ups, domestic or international. 5/x