Publishing Poll

[labricoleuse]

It's not generally my practice to conduct polls, but i figured that this would be the best place to get relevant feedback regarding a few textbooks i have in the pipeline, which i'll be publishing by 2008. Please forgive my blatant market research, but it's in the interest of putting out the best possible textbook. The first two titles will focus on parasols and straw hats (which, if you have ever researched those topics at all, you know that it's particularly hard to find decent resources that cover them in-depth; i want to change that). I know what I like in a textbook, but i don't know that my preferences are everybody's preferences.

I've made the poll with boxes instead of buttons so you can choose more than one option.

[Poll #1035127]

Comments

[jauncourt.livejournal.com]

I'm looking at Lulu.com for my stuff that I'm working on (a few patterns for baby things, my doll pattern, my 12th century costume book) and also to host my free pdf downloads. I'm thinking of selling some art prints though them, too, because I'm less than pleased with the options available through Cafepress.

They have a pretty flexible price/fee (http://www.lulu.com/help/index.php?fSymbol=book_pricing) structure, and do on-demand as well as small-run printing and e-books (http://www.lulu.com/help/index.php?fSymbol=download_pricing_ex).

There are others, but this is the one I was best impressed with when I was researching it - It's more an on-demand printer and less a vanity press.

[labricoleuse.livejournal.com]

Lulu.com is the service i had already decided to go with!

I've been planning this for quite some time and put together a chapbook sort of deal full of my poetry and short stories--not available for public purchase or anything, but in the interest of doing a test-run, to see what their product was like. I was happy with the quality of the paper and binding and printing that they did on that volume, and i appreciate their business model. (Plus, they are nearly local to me, so it's nice to support my regional economy as well.)

Let me know when your 12th c. costume book comes out. I'll be in line to buy it!