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[smbhax.com]

If you post this in the "Gubbins" board you might get more responses. It's also been asked there a lot in the past and you could try searching for those older threads, although Search seemed to lose a lot of history a few months ago.

As far as POD goes, I seem to recall also hearing good things about some Amazon print service in those threads...hm...CreateSpace I guess? http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=13685731

(But yeah I haven't really looked into it or ever tried to print a book myself so this isn't worth much!)

These days with Kickstarter being so popular it seems like a lot of people go to a printer, get a quote on a 1000+ print run, do a Kickstarter campaign to get that money, and if that isn't successful...well I suppose maybe then they consider POD or something, I dunno.
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[raines80]

smbhax.com wrote:

If you post this in the "Gubbins" board you might get more responses. It's also been asked there a lot in the past and you could try searching for those older threads, although Search seemed to lose a lot of history a few months ago. As far as POD goes, I seem to recall also hearing good things about some Amazon print service in those threads...hm...CreateSpace I guess? http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=13685731 (But yeah I haven't really looked into it or ever tried to print a book myself so this isn't worth much!) These days with Kickstarter being so popular it seems like a lot of people go to a printer, get a quote on a 1000+ print run, do a Kickstarter campaign to get that money, and if that isn't successful...well I suppose maybe then they consider POD or something, I dunno.

As usual... SMB is right ( I hate that he is always right). If you are serious about this than you need to contact a printing company. ANY printing company will do. Get a quote and than try a Kickstarter campaign if you have the fan base to do so (I would say you would need at least 5000 readers and 500 DEDICATED fans for this to work).

If that fails... than.. if you have good credit (or none) ask a bank for the funds.
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[AmyTFalcone]

Hey pals,

I did a lot of work with printing during my grueling time in an art program at University. I want to speak to POD sites such as LULU and Blurb Books.

You need to really CAREFULLY read the TOS on these sites. Our professors used to encourage us to use POD services to sell digital versions of our sketchbooks on these sites. It seemed like a great idea and we could even offer ebook versions. Crazy awesome. The problem is, no one thought to really read their service contract before printing with them. Well after I had already started selling mine, we all realized that legally, these printers own your material. That's right. They own it.

Everyone can check it out for themselves, and I'd be happy to be proven wrong. Right now my recomendation is for a place like Indigo Ink Printing,Keness, or even MoxieCopy. You can get a test print, give it the thumbs up and get a pretty decent deal on say, a box of comics. If anyone knows MoCCA Fest in NYC, I got those printer names from people who had great looking books. A lot used the same printers, too.

Good luck!

I illustrate [citation needed] and more at cn-comics.com

[microbrien]

AmyTFalcone wrote:

Hey pals, I did a lot of work with printing during my grueling time in an art program at University. I want to speak to POD sites such as LULU and Blurb Books. You need to really CAREFULLY read the TOS on these sites. Our professors used to encourage us to use POD services to sell digital versions of our sketchbooks on these sites. It seemed like a great idea and we could even offer ebook versions. Crazy awesome. The problem is, no one thought to really read their service contract before printing with them. Well after I had already started selling mine, we all realized that legally, these printers own your material. That's right. They own it. Everyone can check it out for themselves, and I'd be happy to be proven wrong. Right now my recomendation is for a place like Indigo Ink Printing,Keness, or even MoxieCopy. You can get a test print, give it the thumbs up and get a pretty decent deal on say, a box of comics. If anyone knows MoCCA Fest in NYC, I got those printer names from people who had great looking books. A lot used the same printers, too. Good luck! I illustrate [citation needed] and more at cn-comics.com

Yeah, I want to second this.

It's a really shitty thing a lot of sites do. Some (like pinterest) probably write their TOS that way as to protect themselves legally and have no interest in stealing your work and selling it for a profit.

Others are--they say where I'm from--not too much pretty good?


I write [citation needed] and more at cn-comics.com

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Casual Notice wrote:

Lulu Terms of use wrote: Lulu is the owner of all intellectual property rights, including all copyright, patents, and trademarks, associated with the Site, with all rights reserved, exclusive of Content provided by third parties, which is owned by the licensors of such Content. Emphasis mine to highlight the relevant phrase. Essentially what this says is that they own the copyright to everything they created, but do not own the copyright or trademark on items provided by "third-party" creators (the artists and authors that use them to print and distribute their works). They don't even claim standard serial rights from what I can tell. Full Document here.

That's definitely a relief, though I know some other sites don't use as clear language--especially if they are smaller up-starts that couldn't afford a lawyer to write their legal materials.


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