[freeroleplay] Lulu now printing in Europe

[Ricardo Gladwell]

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 12:54 -0700, Jerry Stratton wrote:
> They said they're trying to find a printer in the UK, so I suspect that
> will reduce shipping costs.

Cool, even better. Please keep us appraised.

> Well, I occasionally consider it. But the main reason I use Lulu is
> because I don't have to do anything except write; I already don't have
> time to write the stuff I want to write (don't think I didn't see you
> prodding me over on the Forge). Dealing with stores isn't something I want
> to take the time to do right now.

As I recall, we were thinking of starting a Free RPG Community
publishing press specifically to sell free content RPGs in local shops
to increase their visibility. If the work was shared to do this would
you be interested in helping start a printing imprint sometime in the
future?

> Also, they'd have to sell it for more than I do in order to make money.

My idea would be to use Lulu to create the initial bulk of books and
then arrange to have these copies distributed to shops as people would
with regular RPG books. Not sure how Lulu compares when publishing in
bulk to regular printers.

> I only know two addresses in the UK. It was either that or 221B Baker
> Street. I'm not sure how I'd find the postal code for the latter.

LOL, for future reference:

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=527905&y=182089&z=1&sv=baker
+street&st=6&tl=Baker+Street,+London,
+NW1&searchp=newsearch.srf&mapp=newmap.srf

Kind regards...

-- 
Ricardo Gladwell
President, Free RPG Community
http://www.freeroleplay.org/
president at freeroleplay.org