From lojbab@lojban.org Sat Jul 21 12:12:06 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 21 Jul 2001 19:12:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 8751 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2001 19:11:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 21 Jul 2001 19:11:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-5.cais.net) (205.252.14.75) by mta3 with SMTP; 21 Jul 2001 19:11:59 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (1.dynamic.cais.com [207.226.56.1]) by stmpy-5.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6LJBvT78707 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 15:11:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010721150934.00c50d20@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 15:15:34 -0400 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] how can i help lojban? what can $ do? In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010720203736.00c7d150@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 10:45 AM 07/21/2001 +0100, And Rosta wrote: >Lojbab: > > If we want to publish books, we need lots of money (thousands of > > dollars). We still haven't paid off the loan from the refgrammar yet. > >Could costs be saved in future by using a print-on-demand publisher? As last years minutes will show you, we have already started to consider this option. Our problem is then getting material in a print-on-demand format, which Nick is doing of course. Print on demand books will not likely be high quality, which may or may not impact sales (libraries and bookstores won't like them as much). I don't know what they cost, since we haven't gotten any meaningful price quotes. Probably 3-5 cents a page, I would guess, plus some for the cover and binding. So we are still talking $15-$20 for the lessons book, though with little up front cost and no income to pay for other activities. lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org