Hmm, I'm self publishing via Office Depot, which gives me a 40 page booket (80 strips) per issue for a very good price. All photocopies, of course, but they work out really well. I've been thinking of possibly having the strips done up in book format, a REAL book format, but have still been collecting information on how to do it cost effectively.
There's the vanity press/print on demand, which is one way of doing things. It's not just lulu.com anymore. The guy doing the online cartoon Wondermark had his printed up in Eau Claire, Wisconsin for a decent price. I went to a pet seminar at the Raddison in September and talked to the speaker there, she had a good dozen different small books on dog training at her table for sale afterwards, she'd used a printer just south of Madison, WI who she was very happy with. And the writers group in Milwaukee here had a guest speaker from Chicago who has had three books published by two small presses.
He said the print runs on the books were done via the print on demand places, that's what the small publishers are using now. Interesting! The print runs on his books were anywhere from 800 to 1,300. I know that the larger publishers have been staying under 10,000 copies per print run. It was nice to get some idea of what the small publishers consider a 'print run'. Plus HE got to design the covers (they got the artist to do the actual art though) and he got to name the novels, the publishers did not change the title of the books.
ALWAYS nice to get the actual facts on how this stuff is done. I do want to have these printed up in book format at some point, not just home made issues as I've been doing.
Hey, if Hark A Vagrant! can get published then I certainly can!!!!!
(http://harkavagrant.com/ The artist got a book deal!!!!!)
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