Lulu

[Robert Stoffers]

Matthew East wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> So I'm happy that Jane is ok with the Lulu idea. We need to sort a few
> things out.
> 
> 1. Style of book - there are lots of different types of paperback and
> hardback and various sizes on offer [1]. I think that hardback is not
> realistic in terms of pricing. So it's a choice between the various
> paperbacks, which all cost the same. What are people's views about which
> we should pick?
> 
>  [1] http://www.lulu.com/about/whatislulu.php
> 
> 2. Size - Obviously, we need to decide which is the right size, and
> adjust the fonts in the documents accordingly.
> 

I would like to see crown quarto also (as mentioned by someone else), 
price for 80 b/w pages if we wave our royalties will come to below $10 
US. Check out the Book Formatting FAQ (sorry no link, I can't get on the 
web site) there are options for full bleed, manuscript templates, sizing 
and more. This means crown quarto will come in at < 80 pages (as they 
are bigger).


> 3. Cover art - we should probably approach the art team about cover art.
> Maybe they can help us out by 
> 

Yes, they would be over the moon to help out from what I hear.

> 4. Colour - do we want to include colour in the pdfs? It costs a certain
> amount extra per colour page, so we might want to think about limiting
> it to black and white, except for the cover page. If so, we might need
> to have a look at some alternative admonition icons (possibly the art
> team could help us with those too)
> 

We can do the whole thing in colour, it will cost $0.15 US per colour 
page. It would work out to about $16.53 US for 80 colour pages (for 
example). If we were to do this maybe we could limit it to only the 
Desktop Guide?


> 5. PDFs - some refining still needs to be done on the pdfs, like
> including subsection numbers and playing around a bit with the fonts.
> Any suggestions about formatting of the pdfs, please let me know.
> 

A few issues as we've discussed, once these are sorted out I think it 
will look good. We actually need to be about 80/81 pages to get it 
printed as perfect bound or else it will be stitched. Check out the Book 
Covers FAQ (no link again, sorry) which has download-able templates for 
the different cover sizes and additional information too.

> Can anyone think of anything else we need to think about? ;)

What about translations?


Cheers,

Robert Stoffers
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