"Dave" > wrote in message
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> 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?

He is a poster here, Dave. Can't say I have seen much of him recently
though.

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