[wsfii-discuss] Re: Whole Infrastructure Catalogue

Tue Oct 18 10:39:24 UTC 2005

On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:11:00AM +0100, Julian Priest wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 06:09:47AM +0200, Tomas Krag wrote:
> 
> > We are also spending some time researching Print on Demand opportunities
> > etc.

Hehe you could print also Ronja guides and sell them to people building
Ronja. You basically need up to 2 copies of certain schematics into
which you have to scratch with pencil, plus printout of the building
guides to cross over boxes describing steps you already did. 

Plus the book should contain also all the drilling template in necessary
quantity :) And in the building process the book would be totally
destroyed ;-)

People could order one book and wouldn't have to shuffle with heap of
loose papers from laser printer.

It could be something very cheap like spiral back, just for the papers
to hold together and to take price advantage of the mass production.

CL<
> 
> I don't know if anyone say Mute's 'Precarity Reader', which was being
> show at wsfii. It was a very nice paper back format produced using pod
> at very low cost - about 1.50 GBP per copy.
> 
> > Admittedly we are not doing this with wiki -> book auto conversion,
> > mostly because the printed book is the most important outcome for our
> > project, and the on-line version follows on from that.
> 
> I talked to Simon who said they were planning some work on a wiki
> front end for it which could spits out pdf's straight to the POD
> service.
> 
> > Importantly (I think) we are not just thinking about how to get a book
> > printed (which is easy), but how to get the content of the book
> > distributed in such a fashion that it is easy to print locally in the
> > developing world. Just a reminder that printing doesn't solve the
> > distribution problem. Having a 1000 * 1 kg lumps of paper in a warehouse
> > in the US doesn't do anything for people in the developing world. The
> > distribution is the difficult challenge, on-line and off-line.
> 
> The system they were using could handle printing in different
> localities and also fulfillment using paypal for a fee. There was
> apparently an option to just have the title listed in amazon and get
> them printed at point of sale so to speak.
> 
> cheers
> 
> ~/julian
> 
> 
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