On 2/15/07 8:53 PM, Tamara P Duvall wrote:
The remaining 73 of you... I don't know what to say or
do. I will, definitely, *not* be reprinting the booklet;
200 copies were hard enough to get rid of, even though
some 20 of them were given away as personal gifts or
donated to various libraries. The Lace Museum in
Sunnyvale might still have some copies left. Otherwise...
I'd offer to e-send the prickings, text and diagrams
(sans the wire version of one of the centres, which isn't
mine to give away), and let you scavenge the photos off
my website, for your own booklet. Except that, even
wthout the photos, it's still likely to be a *huge* set
of files. Not the text so much, but the graphics.
Another possibility is to post the files on your website,
with a suggestion that persons using the files send a
donation to the museum -- or, better yet, give the museum
permission to do the same on *their* website and let *them*
do the work.
I started out storing back-ups of all my books on my web
site, then decided I might as well add links to them, and
one of them (Rough Sewing) has actually had some readers.
Another possibility is Lulu.com -- there's another company
that does the same work better, but I forget the name, which
one user of Lulu gives as a reason to prefer Lulu -- when
you tell someone your book is on Lulu, he remembers where to
go to get it. You can post downloadable files there, or
give them a PDF to print copies on demand, or both. They
take care of all the paperwork, and send you (or the Lace
Museum) "royalties" if something sells. I've been
*thinking* about using Lulu.com, but haven't actually PDFd
anything yet.
A member of the N3F has Lulu-published her _Dead Fish_
<http://www.lulu.com/content/325878> in order to buy copies
for her own use, and says she's happy on the whole and has
encountered only two glitches: an unspecified problem
setting up her "storefront" (whatever that is), and a
different book that was supposed to be private "sold" (for
free since no royalty was specified) two copies. The second
glitch would be serious for the professional writers who use
Lulu to print beta copies -- "first rights" are very
valuable, and you don't want to squander them. Small
presses that use Lulu consider it "flaky" -- the rules
change at intervals. None of the complaints seem to apply
to "friends and family" publishers.
--
Joy Beeson
http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/
http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/
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