Monday, October 20th, 2008
One of the POD companies we experiment with, is changing their prices effective October 28th, 2008. Some sizes will get cheaper, some more expensive. Once the pricing goes into effect, I will post more details as to how it will affect this service. We are hoping to take advantage of ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
The last week has been a whirlwind in terms of traffic - over 7,000 hits resulting from various blog posts from around the web as well as various bookmarking services. I want to thank all of people who helped publicize this little project and want to mention below some of the most significant posts:
Open Access News post by Peter Suber (Nov 22nd, 2007)
Teleread post by David Rothman ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
My little experiment for reprinting public domain books has been running for a little over a month. About 75 books have been setup and printed so far. Today I have added support for public domain books from Google Book Search and moved the service to its own domain. It will ...
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
A small project that I have been working on for a while is now public. It is intended to reprint public domain books from the Internet Archive via on demand printing technology. Here is how it works:
1. You request any public domain book from the Internet Archive.
2. The book is processed and submitted to Lulu, a no upfront fee print on demand company.
3. You can order the printed book from Lulu at cost (almost, a small under $1 fee
is surcharged to cover cost of conversion servers rented from Amazon EC2).
The project is called "Public Domain Books Reprints Service" and can ...
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