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Old 05-04-2004, 12:06 PM   #35 (permalink)
maleficent
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I just shipped off the proofs for a cookbook that I did for another site to the printers. I did all the design work myself for this book, in Quark, with some other forum members doing the editing. I ended up with 200 pages (my choice) Full color laminated front and back cover, 6 x 9 pages, the rough cost was about 3500 dollars for 500 books (which is what we went with -- another 1000 dollars would have got us 1000 books.

We're selling the books for 12 dollars a piece - so that left us with a little over 5 dollars profit per book.
It was a really neat project, that got a lot of people involved, including some really quiet members that I didn't expect to do much -- was just a lot of fun -- and not a lot of real work.
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Originally posted by Prince
One thing - and this is kind of off the subject - I have pondered over, is the possibility of a big number of TFP members, who contribute to the poetry and literature section, putting together a collection of their writings. I mean, obviously I don't know how many members actively contribute there nor how many would be interested, nor am I aware of all the legal problems or etc etc etc that could stand in its way, but let's say that a 100 members contributed one or two of their chosen poems... And all of the individuals contributing a poem would chip in for the cost of publication... Obviously I am not aware of how much it would ultimately cost, but I doubt that a print of, say 500 or 1000 or so books would cost too much...especially if we happened to have someone in our ranks that works for or owns a publishing house... I dunno if this is doable at all, but just throwing ideas in the air.
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