I used to think so. But some years ago - decades ago, now, come to think of it - we were teaching users how to write their own DYL-280II programs, and ordering manuals for them as the need arose. My boss got tired of writing up purchase orders for manuals one and two at a time (at $150 for a two-volume set, as I recall), and had me talk to Dylakor about buying a larger number at a discount. Say 100 of them, and we'd parcel them out to the users as part of the classes.
Dylakor was perfectly willing to sell me 100 copies at half price, $7500 for 100 sets. No, no, I said, I want a ~real~ discount. I had the idea, you see, that they were making a lot of extra money on the printing. They came back to me a day or two later and made a counter offer: They'd issue us a license to print the manuals on-site, and they'd just sell us the loose-leaf tabs and binders. Now you're talking!, I said, and went off to our print shop to figure out what it would take. Turns out their half-price offer was about what I'd have to spend to do the printing ourselves. The lesson I came away with: Printing is expensive. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* "Bother", said the Borg, "we've assimilated a Pooh". */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 11:01 I don't know US prices, but IMHO scanning manuals, especially not books, rather binders should be easy and cheap. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
