Yet another foray into the semi-slutty world of print on demand, and self publishing. I've been monitoring ebay for the past couple months, watching auctions on docutechs and nuveras - these are the trade names for the most widely sold digital printers, used for POD. Though these machines will take up a wall of your basement, and originally sold in the upper tens of thousands, it's been ten years since they first appeared and the prices have dropped. Currently one can buy one for about five thousand. I can't justify the expense, but I'm keeping an eye on it. It would be neat someday...
Separately but in the same vein, I took my historical novel and went poking around lulu.com. They are unique (I think) among self-publishing companies in letting you play with their typesetting software free. You can even create a cover and display it on your screen for free. I set up a version of my buried gold story and it looked so good I decided to spring for the $15 to get a hard copy. As best I could tell, looking at the many, many self-publishing outfits out there (hard to believe in 2001 there were only a handful, though a fair number have come and gone) require you to give them chunks of money before they even show you the software.
So I have a galley of my buried gold tale, and separately it's still being read by a small publisher, but I thought in the mean time I would try to get some blurbs by sending the galley around.
The publishing model continues to change...
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