On Wednesday 31 October 2007 02:49:17 pm John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:15:26 +0100 > > Petr Vanek <petr at scribus.info> dijo: > > here is a draft how I'd like to see the result form. It is not prefect > > (it was created when I had breakfast;)) of course but take it as just an > > opinion. > > In case anyone is interested in making available a manual in real book > form, I happen to own a publishing company. I specialize in short runs. > I print everything on laser, and bind and trim myself. I use Laserjet > 8000 printers for the guts (black and white, Postscript), and I have a > Xerox Phaser 7400 that I use for printing covers. I usually print > textbooks and the format is US letter, but I also commonly print books > in half-letter format. I have three book binding machines (paperback), > a professional guillotine for trimming, and a professional laminating > machine for the covers. My product looks as professional as anything > you see in a bookstore. > > The advantage of my setup is that by printing on laser and doing it all > myself I can print in short runs almost as economically as large > publishing companies do with very long runs on a press. Thus, I can > print only a few hundred copies of a book at a time at affordable > prices. If changes are required I can make the changes to the next run, > so the books will always be the latest thing. I could produce a > 500-page letter size manual for $15-$20 or so. We could also sell to > bookstores (Amazon, Powell's, Barnes and Noble, etc.). Bookstores want > a 40% discount, so we could establish a retail price of $25-$30. We > could sell on a website for the same price, with the difference being > donated to Scribus development. > > I am in the US, and I can ship anywhere. However, if we want > translations the number of copies might be a problem. We'd need to sell > 25 copies a month or so to make it worthwhile. I could see that for the > English version, but some languages do not have enough speakers. > > There are other book publishing options - Lulu, for example. And if the > volume turns out to be more than I can comfortably handle, perhaps > other publishers might be a better idea. I don't want to become a big > business. I just decided I should toss this out to the list for > everyone's consideration and discussion. > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
I also am a publisher and I find LSI to be more trouble but about half the cost of Lulu. John Culleton Wexfordpress -- John Culleton Want to know what I really think? http://apps.wexfordpress.net/blog/ And my must-read (free) short list: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf
