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You're welcome Steve! Thank you again for the timely publication. I'm still kinda old-fashioned and love to flip through the pages of a real book. eBook is great from the perspective that one could keep copies in different devices. I plan to keep a copy on my iPhone so that I always have an access.Wow, that looks great!
And thank you for the purchase
I got it printed at my university print shop. I'm sure any public printing services would do that. Please make sure to have a copy of the receipt available for them to see as a proof of purchase for a legitimate copy to avoid any copyright issue. Our printing services needed a copy of the receipt for their file. Thanks!
Nice!
Wow, Steve, that's very nice of you. A publishing company likely wouldn't allow this without a fee, if at all!
Per chance, might either of you divulge to us the cost of so doing this?
Thank you for asking. At our university print shop, I paid about Canadian $35.00 for printing, coil-bound, with front and back cover (front with additional plastic protection).
Thank you, both, for responding.
Office Depot charged me $65.00 for a B&W copy but they printed it in color by mistake.
Much better!!
Any print shop should yes be able to do that for you, and with choice of binding (though the ring binding is a great idea for easy flat page reading! I'm so having it done; for all my overly used Steve manuals!
Have you considered doing this on a custom basis. I’d be first on line.
Sorry, I don't follow. Like a custom letter to the printer?
No, sorry, I wasn’t clear. What I meant was sell the ebook, as you do, but also offer separately a spiral bound hard copy at an additional price. What I meant by custom order was the hard copy would be individually prepared by a printer, with whom you developed a previous arrangement, so that you would not have to order in bulk. It would be more expensive than a bulk print arrangement but many of us, I suspect from what I’ve read here, would jump on it. It’s so much easier to work from a spiral bound book with the camera in front of me than try to do the same on computers. Then, if it caught fire, you could order limited bulk runs at a lower price per book and increase your margin. My explanation, unfortunately, makes it sound more complicated than I think I’d would be.
So today I went back to Office Depot. Different sales person. Quote for B&W was $90. YESTERDAY the quote for color was $90.
Thanks
The problem is that although I'd get a better price than just doing one at a time, it's still pricy. When I've looked at short run prints before, it was in the neighborhood os $50~$70 per book. Plus, there's shipping. Many people don't realize how expensive it's become to ship things today. It would easily add another $15 to the price to send via UPS and not much cheaper via USPS. On top of that, I need to make some money, so add another $28 for me. Suddenly, it's pushing $100.
Yup, I hear you! Makes sense.The problem is that although I'd get a better price than just doing one at a time, it's still pricy. When I've looked at short run prints before, it was in the neighborhood os $50~$70 per book. Plus, there's shipping. Many people don't realize how expensive it's become to ship things today. It would easily add another $15 to the price to send via UPS and not much cheaper via USPS. On top of that, I need to make some money, so add another $28 for me. Suddenly, it's pushing $100.
And than Nikon issues a firmware update and makes every book in my inventory obsolete - and I get a bunch of e-mails from people who recently purchased the book asking if they can exchange their current book for the updated one.
So, I'm not too interested in that scenario
