On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Robin Miller wrote:
> Yes, there ARE binding options. They're new. Book-on-demand publishing is
> available commercially, but I haven't had time to track down who's doing
> it. And I should.
Yeah, if you find them, I'd like to check them out. The closest things I saw
was taking your PostScript file or whatever to a printer who had a $500,000
Xerox DocuTech who could then print and bind your work in quantities of
1,000+ for a kind of expensive price. And the real expensive Velobind (I
think) glue strips -- they would be perfect except (a) they're priced at
like $2 each when they _should_ be like 20 cents, and (b) the machine to do
the actual binding costs $500. Arg.
> I wrote a book called "How To Have Fun and Make Money Driving a ____ Cab"
> four years ago that I've sold to several dozen cab companies on disk, with
> changes to match their local laws and company policies. You buy it on
> disk, preformatted in Word (or whatever you like) for printing and
> stapling at Kinko's of any local equivalent. I charge them $1 per cab for
> the "first printing" and a dime a cab for updates.
That's cool. Because of the local laws etc. it would have never been able to
be printed "normally," so here you stepped around all that. Did you just
sell them the disk and they brought it to Kinko's themseleves?
How did you promote it, direct mail?
> The money from this helped me buy a limo a get out of the cab business...
And then maybe write a book about that... ;D
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