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Subject: [lace] print on demand
May I add, the A to Z books have changed over the years from basic spiral
bound to spiral bound with a spine cover. This is a much more robust
format & may solve the issues that Jacquie has identified. From the
Country Bumpkin website describing their book on Beading:
Semi-hardcover, Concealed spiral binding, 228mm x 218mm wide, 128pp
Country Bumpkin are a big oganisation and will of course have huge print
runs compared to those of us going down the POD route to republish popular
out of print lace titles. Cost is the main issue and the books have to be
for sale at an affordable price and will naturally be very small print runs,
which of course makes them more expensive. A hard cover would be very nice
but also expensive, which is why we are all going for paperbacks. My mother
always told me as a child when I wanted something "It's all very well having
champagne tastes but not much good if you only have lemonade money"! There
are so many pros and cons and with postage being so high for all of us,
weight has to be a very serious consideration. It's no use producing a
beautifully covered book if everyone is going to complain about the cost of
postage. I do have several of the Country Bumpkin spiral bound books with
the heavier weight covers but they are not too much thicker than an ordinary
laminated paper cover.
I am currently waiting for a quote from the printer before I can make the
decision to go ahead with my own POD so am naturally very interested in all
opinions being currently posted.. However, I have quickly discovered that
there is more to this than initially meets the eye and there are
restrictions as to what I would like, compared towhat is afforable to all
concerned.
Catherine Barley
Catherine Barley Needlelace
www.catherinebarley.com
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