On Jul 11, 2004, Mike Rivers commented:

If I knew where I could get 396 pages printed
and bound, and make a little money selling it for $19.95, I'd publish
the book of my Recording articles that people have been asking for.

Right now I'm looking at $19.95 (OK, $20) for about 90 pages and a CD,
wire bound, less than 1/2" thick, weight unknown (but shipping
included).
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The latest technology for low-budget publishing is P.O.D. (aka "Publish On
Demand"), which is essentially a very high-quality laser printer/binding
machine, that can spit out many hundreds (if not thousands) of softbound
books an hour.

It's good if you have a scholarly book that will probably not sell more than
a couple of thousand copies, or for whatever reason, can't make a deal with a
mainstream publisher.

You can get a lot of good info on POD from this website:

http://www.booksandtales.com/pod/

I'd guess that a book like you describe could probably be produced for about
$10 a copy (depending on binding), assuming it was B&W, plus another buck for
the CD, but you'd have to hire some people to shove the CD into the book.


--MFW
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