[FM Discuss] details for printing manuals

[Cara Bell-Jones]

sounds like a great idea :)
I'll email you those covers (along with others that i have)
is it possible to do it without ISBNs?

cara


Anne Gentle wrote:
> Hi all -
> Janet Swisher and I are submitting a proposal for a talk and a booth at 
> the Texas Linux Fest in April. We walked through the details of what we 
> might need to stock a booth with books.
> 
> The titles we're going to price for printing are once that the Linux 
> audience might purchase in print, like How to Bypass Internet Censorship 
> and Introduction to the GNU/Linux Command Line. We'll price them to 
> include donations back to FM and FSF.
> 
> How do I get the covers for those books?
> 
> I'm also considering donating the startup costs for printing books 
> through Lightning Source. I see the setup as the online way to taking 
> files to a printer. I do want to run it by this group to any gotchas or 
> considerations. I know Adam's concern is that Lightning Source may not 
> allow updates once an ISBN is assigned, which I'll investigate. Are 
> there other considerations? My plan would be to buy US ISBN numbers, 
> does that have any inherent problems? Also, I'd have to choose a limited 
> set of books for set up to keep costs down - what would be the "best" 
> titles, and what criteria would you use to select those?
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> Anne
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