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SophomoreFodder
 
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| Well it's Monday again, so I'm trying to keep up with the one company idea a week. I hope people are finding this entertaining at the least. Project Name: Guttenburg Book Store Project Description: The Gutenberg books Store is a print on demand book store. They keep soft copies of books in an adjustable format and can print on demand any book in their library in any format (Hardcover, Quality Paperback or Mass Market) in any size font. This removes the messy inventory process as well as the shipping, stocking and other overhead nightmares that most conventional bookstores have to deal with. It also means that if you want the "Davinci Code" in a form you can read and carry easily you can have it. It will also allow for printing books in various languages as well as in large print. Problem: While there are a plethora of public domain books that would allow you a massive back catalog the deals that would have to be made with large scale publishers is out of my realm of expetese.
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Fodder Chief
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| | Ah. Check out lulu.com for an interesting (and similar) business. Ben |
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SophomoreFodder
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| That is a boutique publishing house. You give them a book and they will do a small run print of it. I used to work at a bookstore so I know all about these special order houses. It takes months for them to do a second printing. They are good if you want 500 copies of the book you wrote printed, but they are not quite what I'm talking about. I'm talking more about if you need a copy of "Lord of the Flies" for a book report and need a copy. It's amazing how hard it is to stock books for summer reading for students. The reading lists for all the grades for 6 schools took up a binder 3 inches thick.
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The GodFodder
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| | I think you might get more mileage out of a "Irish Monks Bookstore," where you would employ 6th century Irish monks to handwrite copies of books for your customers. Sure, it takes longer, but you could charge more for the novelty and make up the difference in volume. The problem is finding enough 6th century Irish monks, I suppose.
Cheers! Bill
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SophomoreFodder
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| | We have a cartoon on one of our more troublesome printers at work with a dead monk on a scroll and someone yelling "Get tech support, the printer died again!" Seriously though; anyone think there is a market for something like this. Nice small footprint and a cafe to sip coffee at while waiting for you book to print.
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The GodFodder
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| BRodda (2/28/2006)
We have a cartoon on one of our more troublesome printers at work with a dead monk on a scroll and someone yelling "Get tech support, the printer died again!" Seriously though; anyone think there is a market for something like this. Nice small footprint and a cafe to sip coffee at while waiting for you book to print. Tough sell, IMO. There are copyright issues to contend with. Does your machine keep track of the number of times a book is printed so the author/publishing house can get his cut? What if a print goes haywire and the job needs to be done again? Should the messed up copy be kept (or sent to the publisher) in order to prove that there hasn't been a copyright infringement?
Cheers! Bill
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SophomoreFodder
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| We will pay the current royalty fee based on the current format the book is available in. That way the publisher gets there cut, but doesn't have to pay the overhead of production, storage and shipping. At the end of every month we figure would send out checks and a list of the number of times the books were printed and in what format.
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Fodder Chief
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| | You are basically trying to do for books what Steve Jobs did for music, right? You might as well develop the iBook while you're at it! |
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SophomoreFodder
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| | To many poeple in the iBook type design. They have been around for years and people just don't like them. This is more like the "build your own CD" that FYE has. We get around hte whole DRM thing becasue printed books are not easliey copied and distributed. That's why publishers don't like e-books.
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