From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Sat Jul 21 21:35:40 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 22 Jul 2001 04:35:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 66312 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2001 04:34:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 22 Jul 2001 04:34:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta3 with SMTP; 22 Jul 2001 04:34:37 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2/ITS-5.0/student) with ESMTP id f6M4Yaf11888 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 22:34:37 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 22:34:36 -0600 (MDT) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] how can i help lojban? what can $ do? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Jay Kominek On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Michal Wallace wrote: > There is one other option I know of that you might be interested > in.. It's a small subsidiary/spinoff/something of random house called > xlibris ( http://www.xlibris.com/ ) If I read their faq right, they > basically handle the sales, fill and ship orders, and split the > royalties with you. They have some kind of print-on-demand technology > so you never have to buy boxes of books. The basic service is > $200. That's all I know about them, but it might be worth a look. Xlibris looks pretty good. The main thing likely to be a problem is that they limit you to a very small number of tables. Looks like maybe 10 tables for the most expensive service. There are a lot of features that seem as though they could be pretty helpful. ISBN/LOC numbers, distribution via online booksellers, etc, and you can get trade paperback _and_ hardcover copies. Paperbacks look to be $16, and hardcover books are $25, I can't find anything about page counts, though. (Though for a $16 paperback, they could easily print a few thousand pages.) Oh, and those prices include royalties which are sent to the author. Importantly, the agreement with Xlibris is non-exclusive, allowing you to do whatever else you want with the book. - Jay Kominek