On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:22:58 -0400, grendelkhan <grendelkhan@gmail.com> wrote: | Thanks to everyone for their comments so far! I'm learning quite a bit as I go. | | As of October 2003, the US Commerce department reported that about | three-fifths of households had a computer; a little over half had | internet access. | | https://www.esa.doc.gov/Reports/NationOnlineBroadband04.htm | | So it's not as bad as I was led to believe. Still, | | Perhaps I should have stated my goals a little more clearly. I have no | particular interest in making money or making a business out of this. | I'd simply like to make the books available---through whatever means | that may be---in dead-tree form. I suppose it's a terrible idea fo tie | the actual Project to a commercial entity by developing a working | relationship with them---I don't think an "Official Project Gutenberg | Edition" is a good idea. | | lulu.com, as mentioned, has no setup fees, but their pricing is a mite | stiff---$4.53 plus $0.02/page. Certainly better than buying stuff from | most university presses, but not exactly bargain-basement. Lightning | Source charges (based on some quick googling at | http://com1.runboard.com/bthescribesmessageboard.fwritingarchives.t45%7Coffs... | ), $0.90 plus $0.013 per page, but I don't know what kind of binding | that requires, or what sort of setup fees they charge. Perhaps they'd | waive them if DP put out some sort of print-ready version in addition | to human-readable text. I'm thinking TeX->PDF here, as it's pretty | much the stablest human-readable-yet-fully-marked-up format available. | Thoughts? I suppose I should take a relatively short etext, mark it up | and see how it looks. | | I concur that simply throwing plain text, or even decent HTML, at | paper is a horrible idea. So, what I ask is---is there a way to | prepare the etexts as, in addition to HTML, whatever format is | print-ready for these machines? Since typesetting a ready copy is a | simple matter of feeding it to a Xerox DocuTech or whatever the | $100,000 piece of hardware the print shop uses is, how can we do the | necessary preprocessing ourselves? What exactly does the "setup fee" | include? Just a mention that all Europe uses A4 paper. Anything designed solely for American paper sizes will be useless to typesetters in Europe. -- Dave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk> http://www.webshots.com Thousands of wonderful professional photos for your Wallpaper and Screensaver. also 200,000 amateur pics. Four new pics each day.