A publisher for a promising new novel figures fixed costs $($overhead$,$ advances, promotion, copy editing, typesetting, and so on$)$ at $$55,000,$ and variable costs $($printing$,$ paper, binding, shipping$)$ at $$2\mathrm{.}10$ for each book produced. With this pricing, $6963$ books need to be produced and sold at $$10\mathrm{.}00$ each for the publisher to break even. However, rising prices for paper require an increase in variable costs to $$2\mathrm{.}60$ for each book produced.

Use this information to complete parts a$.$ through $c.$

a$.$ What strategies might the company use to deal with this increase in costs? Choose all that are reasonable.

A$.$ Increase the font size of the print in the book.

B$.$ Increase the selling price of the book.

C$.$ Decrease the fixed costs.

D$.$ Find different suppliers to try and lower the variable costs.