A personal Chapter Book (?) - Shakespeare's Monkeys

Stephan Ansteyfrom Lowell, MA Associate, 6232 posts	on Sep. 17 2007 It shouldn't be too outrageous. Depending on exactly what your'e doing. how many copies total? Perfect bound? You could look at places like Lulu.com love stephan ----- stephan
Melden Fred Associate, 1848 posts	on Sep. 19 2007 Lulu is one option. Another is self-publishing. It requires an initial investment of a Zip-Bind punch ($100 at Staples, though better models are available. The cheaper models aren't worth the money). The ZipBind spines are fairly inexpensive, and the process is easy. I buy a high-quality ream of paper and have the store chop it in half. You then feed the sheets in, use MS Word to develop the entire document. I suggest you put the covers on different paper and as a different document. Take some cheapy paper, cut it in half yourself, and practice till you get it right. It's actually fun making and designing your own document. Also, you can easily add graphics and get everything exactly as you want it. It takes about 15 minutes to punch and assemble. Alcuin
Sharmagne	on Feb. 18 2008 We use a company called (I removed thier name becasue they don't stand behind their mistakes and typos!). I design my own books and covers. They are on good quality paper and the covers are glossy perfect bound. They aren't "cheap" but they are quality. I pay around $2.35 per book but I order 750 copies of each title at a time. If you don't have a ISBN they supply one. Quill and Parchment owns 10, so we didn't need to go that route. I have found it is less expensive to order the second run of book covers at the same time as the frst printing so you don't have that set up charge on the next printings. If you are local he delivers. If you would like to see copies of my book covers (back and front) go to Barnes and Noble . Type in my first name. I didn't design the cover of the memoire, but I did on the two poetry books.
Stephan Ansteyfrom Lowell, MA Associate, 6232 posts	on Feb. 18 2008 Great info there Sharmagne, thanks for that!