On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 02:40:25PM +0200, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 22:26 -0400, John R. Culleton wrote:
As it happens I have good contacts in the publishing industry (see my sig block.) If you like I can shop around for a printer.
I did see the sig block!
I also have my own imprint and can act as a publisher. But no publisher will do much about marketing your book. Your audience is right here on this mailing list. I am sure most on the list would want to buy the book if the price can be brought down. Let me see what I can come up with. I am sure I can beat $0.15/page. That is a copy shop price.
I would appreciate your checking.
Hi Guys,
What was the result of this investigation? It would be very cool to see a printed Inkscape manual (esp. in color).
It's too bad that the publisher fell through; that would have been great to have a professionally published book for Inkscape. I'm not super surprised though; I've heard elsewhere that publishing of books on open source projects is tough for publishers.
The Lulu option sounds like it could prove to be a good option, especially if the book can be made 100% open source, because then we could probably also directly advertise it from the inkscape.org site if you'd like.
Bryce