Print-on-Demand?

A question for you all.

I’ve been engaged in the lengthy project of converting all my out-of-print works into ebooks, a project which has been a modest success, and which stands to keep me in beer money for a while.   (Or it would if I actually drank a lot of beer, which I don’t.)

But I can also make the same books available via print-on-demand.  I haven’t done a ton of research into this, but I believe I could make the books available as hardbacks on quality paper with dust jackets for around $40.00 each.  And less money for less classy bindings.

But would anyone buy them?  (And by “anyone,” dear readers, I guess I mean you.)  POD publishers— does that make their authors POD people?— say that their average sale is maybe 150 copies.  Some have deals with distributors like Ingram but that doesn’t mean the books will actually appear in stores unless someone makes a special order.  Plus, most POD publishers require some money from the author up front, and quite frankly I don’t like losing money.

So would you buy a $40 hardback if it had my name on it?  A $20 trade paperback?

No pressure on anything.  Just wondering.