[FM Discuss] the muddle the model

adam hyde adam at flossmanuals.net
Thu Jan 28 10:24:56 PST 2010


hey

just a few thoughts about print on demand. we just finished the
Collaborative Futures Book Sprint. Its licensed CC-BY-SA and the
festival (transmediale) that funded it is printing 300 copies with a
local print on demand service...the cost is about 3 euro per (144 page)
book...

this makes me think a little about the fact we have all these cool books
in fm and i would like to encourage anyone on this list to get some
copies made using print on demand and sell them at conferences etc...if
u can get 300 printed a 3 euro each and sell each for 10 bucks that 7
euro per piece that will help pay your rent...

we should really encourage this model since it helps gets the books out
their and is something of an diy economic model...thats part of the
point right?

adam



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