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summercomfort) wrote2014-08-10 02:09 am
summercomfort) wrote2014-08-10 02:09 am
Tisquantum talk
Okay, so on Friday I laid out the last of my pages that will end chapter 2 (and, consequently, Book 1 of 2). It's pretty exciting, because it means that I'm on track to getting everything printed by APE! (I figure -- spend 2 weeks drawing it, then a week going back and fixing everything, which gives me a month to get it printed.)
So I decided to look up printing prices for it.
Things are not looking good. Last time I gauged printing prices, I thought I'd have a 60 page book, but I didn't count on Chapter 2 being twice as long as I thought it'd be, which means it's not going to clock in at around 80 pages. (Prologue: 12 pgs, Ch1: 28 pgs, Ch2: 33 pgs, plus probably 6 pgs of historical notes?) This has now pushed it over from a saddle-stitched booklet to a perfect-bound book. On Ka-Blam, this basically doubles the price *and* changes the page sizing. (It's bad enough that I've drawn the first 2 chapters at an 8.5x11 ratio, and this last chapter at an 8.25x10.75 ratio, but the ka-blam perfect bound is 8x10.5). But, I don't really like Perfect Bound that much because the interior margins are .... futzy.
So now I'm trying to figure out my options:
Option 1: Lulu, colored, perfect bound, crappy paper, $7
Option 2: Ka-Blam, Separate """"issues"""", ~$3 each
I might also go talk to our local print shop -- their online price quotes seem pretty reasonable, and that'd cut down on the printing costs significantly.
Anyways, any opinion on reading Tisquantum in a single perfect-bound book vs. as 3 separate issues?
So I decided to look up printing prices for it.
Things are not looking good. Last time I gauged printing prices, I thought I'd have a 60 page book, but I didn't count on Chapter 2 being twice as long as I thought it'd be, which means it's not going to clock in at around 80 pages. (Prologue: 12 pgs, Ch1: 28 pgs, Ch2: 33 pgs, plus probably 6 pgs of historical notes?) This has now pushed it over from a saddle-stitched booklet to a perfect-bound book. On Ka-Blam, this basically doubles the price *and* changes the page sizing. (It's bad enough that I've drawn the first 2 chapters at an 8.5x11 ratio, and this last chapter at an 8.25x10.75 ratio, but the ka-blam perfect bound is 8x10.5). But, I don't really like Perfect Bound that much because the interior margins are .... futzy.
So now I'm trying to figure out my options:
Option 1: Lulu, colored, perfect bound, crappy paper, $7
Option 2: Ka-Blam, Separate """"issues"""", ~$3 each
I might also go talk to our local print shop -- their online price quotes seem pretty reasonable, and that'd cut down on the printing costs significantly.
Anyways, any opinion on reading Tisquantum in a single perfect-bound book vs. as 3 separate issues?