Re: Self-Publishing

2011-04-17 Thread PMA
Thanks to all for your generous feedback! I think I've been, though old enough to know better, pretty naive about this. I've never realistically intended to make -- to try making -- money with my music, or even to print it en masse. So, what am I doing trying to be a print shop? Why not

Re: Self-Publishing

2011-04-15 Thread Éditions IN NOMINE
Hi. I'd like to give you my testymony as a publisher : if you want to publish and sell as a professional, I have to say that printing is a REAL job. I mean it takes time, and you won't have a proper score at the end without professional printers (machine AND guys). I made this choice a year

Re: Self-Publishing

2011-04-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org wrote: Pete == PMA  peterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu writes:    Pete The upshot -- well, so far -- is that *if* I buy the printer,    Pete it will be a refurbished HP LaserJet 5000.  Am sniffing out    Pete reputable vendors. I

Self-Publishing (was Favorite Lilypond-Score Printer?)

2011-04-10 Thread PMA
My thanks to all for your suggestions! The upshot -- well, so far -- is that *if* I buy the printer, it will be a refurbished HP LaserJet 5000. Am sniffing out reputable vendors. Meanwhile, I've begun to explore other (no-printer) options for self- publishing. The POD outfits (Lulu first

Re: Self-Publishing

2011-04-10 Thread Laura Conrad
Pete == PMA peterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu writes: Pete The upshot -- well, so far -- is that *if* I buy the printer, Pete it will be a refurbished HP LaserJet 5000. Am sniffing out Pete reputable vendors. I would recommend against this. I did that, after the kind of exploration you

Re: Self-Publishing (was Favorite Lilypond-Score Printer?)

2011-04-10 Thread Tim McNamara
for self- publishing. The POD outfits (Lulu first) especially, and the archivers (IMSLP, WIMA) anyway. Simply -- I want my scores (PDF) available and known to be so by folks whose taste might incline them to be interested. (Reckon it's the known to be so part that'll cost me) I would love