On 05/27/2013 11:15 PM, gloria p wrote:
> On 5/27/2013 1:44 PM, Dave wrote:
>> I'm assisting a family cookbook project (technical support I guess). My
>> involvement will be to get the book laid out and published. My
>> questions to those that have done something like this a
>>
>> * What were the problems you ran into and how did you solve them?
>> * How did you publish the cookbook - hard copy, web, etc?
>> * If you went for hard copy, was it a booklet, book, other?
>> * Did you self-publish or have a commercial printer do it? Were you
>> happy with the results and would you recommend them?
>> * If you self-published, what software did you use?
>> * What were the costs?
>> * Looking back, what would you have done different?
>>
>> Thanks for your time!
>>
>> Dave,
>
>
> There are lots of unanswered questions in your description, Dave:
>
> Will it be sold outside the family?

The family will account for the majority, some friends of family will be
the rest. I don't see making the cookbook available to the general
public, but who knows.

>
> How many copies will you need to distribute?

I anticipate less than three dozen.

>
> What price-per-copy are you hoping for?

This has not been discussed, but my guess is between $10 and $20.

>
> Are you doing all the tech support? (That's the hardest part after
> hounding people to send you their recipes!)

Yes. By that I mean turning the recipe cards, the text notes, etc. into
the final format (which is still undecided). I may also take some
pictures of some of the recipes. Recipe collection, artistic decisions,
and customer relations are being done by my better half.

>
> It sounds like an interesting project. Dimitri has done something like
> that in loose-leaf format (I think) for his daughters. He might have
> some good suggestions.

Who is Dimitri?

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> gloria p