From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <20021212205339.27924.qmail@mail.dirac.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Hi together | a few newbie questions From: Keith Nash Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 20:53:39 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 331f5822-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > and there's always nemo's commentary... that probably should > become a book :) > If any of you have a suggestion for a different publisher, > just let me know. I have friends who were in small-time publishing about 7 years ago. In those days, a paperback print run was 1000 minimum, with larger runs at low incremental cost. It will be a problem to sell this number of books, or anything like it, whether through mail order or via booksellers. Advertising would be futile. A different option is for contributed material to be included in the official manuals. There could be a 3rd volume of "Contributed" material, or the new stuff could be added to the "Documents" volume (which I expect would be the cheaper route). Alternatively, since the only likely purchasers are subscribers to this list, we could collect pre-orders (e.g. through Vita Nuova, or Scusi's dad's company), and only print the book if there is sufficient interest.