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? Thanks to everyone again for being so helpful with this. --grendelkhan