[FM Discuss] book making

[adam hyde]

On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 16:34 -0500, Janet Swisher wrote:
> Wow, cool. FLOSS Manuals keeps getting lower tech :-)
> 
> You could sign those hand-made books and charge a bigger premium.
> 
> Speaking of local production, any movement on the newsprint idea? Seth
> Godin is predicting that there will be no significant newspapers
> printed on paper by 2012:
> http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/04/sixty-to-zero.html
> I haven't heard anybody talking about what's happening to all those
> presses. Are they just getting scrapped? May need to move fast before
> they disappear.
> 

we are working on the possibility to do the Digital Foundations manual
in newsprint for distribution in Argentina during Wikimania
( http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal ). it will be a spanish
translation - its already translated, just looking for the $ for
printing

adam


> 
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:23 PM, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> > hey
> >
> > Thanks jay for this suggestion. I would love ot be in touch with some
> > book makers.
> >
> > As for the book making itself. Adam Thomas, a friend from Berlin, and I
> > have made some nice books with a bound spine. Its a very simple method
> > but can look very nice if done well. The thing is, it brings the cost of
> > the book to produce under what Lulu can produce them for. So I am
> > thinking if people like the idea, and like the product, we could still
> > sell the lulu books but sell the hand made books at a slightly higher
> > price.
> >
> > If we document the process it also means that we can have local
> > production of the books as well. Instead of ordering x books from lulu
> > to take to a festival or event, for example anyone could just make the
> > books locally for cheaper, and sell them or give them away.
> >
> > I will put some pictures up online when i have some good photos of what
> > we have tried so far.
> >
> > any thoughts on this?
> >
> > adam
> >
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