On Aug 5, 2004, at 4:21, Annette Gill wrote:
What about an electronic version that we foreigners could buy and print off ourselves? That would get round the prohibitive postal costs.
Can't do that; my Mac won't "talk" to the scanner part of my MFC, and I'm not able to make it :) But that's also the reason why I can't make the book available via a disc, which would have been a lot cheaper to s-mail. And the reason I can't make other patterns from my page available - on the web page and free - to everyone... :(
On Aug 5, 2004, at 8:14, Barbara George wrote:
Would it be possible to email electronic copies to selected (trusted) people/suppliers in the various countries who would then print and sell copies and send a lump sum of money to you?
Barbara Cape Town, South Africa
Vide above about e-copies. But... I'd have no objection to sending out one copy (at regular price plus the exorbitant shipping) which would then be copied and sold, with $3.85 per sold copy going to The Lace Museum (either you send it to me - in bulk, and I send it on to the Museum, or else you send it - again, in bulk - to the Museum yourself. It's not a matter of not trusting...)
My only hesitation would be about the quality of the copy of the copy... The booklet has some "ifs" about it but, in general, it's very nicely done: decent-quality paper; crisp, laser printing of text, prickings and diagrams; plastic coil for binding (sturdier than comb, and easier to spread the pages open for copying a pricking); clear plastic protective covers back and front...
I'd be a little worried about the home-made copies made on an inkjet and on low-quality paper being sold at the same price as mine. And they - probably - would have to be, because inkjets are much more expensve to *maintain* (toner/ink wise) than lasers... I paid the printers (who had to make a profit on the operation) 9 cents a page (more for the double-sided ones and for the thicker paper for the covers); according to our Consumers Report estimate, inkjets cost about 25 cents per page...
Jeanette Fischer, also in your "neck of woods" (S.A.), has an original copy. If you'd like to copy that for distribution within S.A., and if it's likely to come out cheaper than a copy mailed by me, and if it's decent-enough value for the money, you have my blessing... *As long as* The Lace Museum gets its share of every copy sold... :)
On Aug 5, 2004, at 4:30, usako Ko wrote:
Perhaps you can find a european lacemaker who can send us a copy, and who
give you back the money.
Best Regards
Usako, raining day on the Cote d'Azur
Jacqui (Southworth, in UK) will be coming back to US next week, and has ordered another 10 copies. It'll be up to her to distribute them at whatever price/shipping costs (if she decides to do that) she can manage, after she's paid me my own costs plus the cut for the Museum. It may come out cheaper, it might not, if she has to mail them out.
Jacquie (Tinch, also in UK) has offered to run off copies for her students, selling them at cost plus the cut for the Museum... She might be willing to run off another copy, and mail it to you; there's not enough interest in France (or any country in Europe, other than UK) to set up a seller closer to you.
Yours, trying to find free boxes for multiple-copy shipping (to the Museum and to Jacqui; it rained all day today, so I didn't go out, and made lace instead <g>)
T
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