An outsourced book!
Saturday, January 10th, 2009My brother is currently writing his 4th year dissertation for his industrial design course at Nortumberland Univeristy. Whilst researching he came across a writer who was writing a book about crowdsourcing and as part of the book decided to use the readers of his blog to proof read his first draft and provide suggestions.
All this got me thinking. How easily and cheap could commission a book on the web? Is there any was to reduce the cost by using free services or crowdsourcing? What kind of book best lends itself to this type of project?
From my time aimlessly surfing I remembered about an on demand book printer Blurb. There are many other services (some listed at the bottom of this post) offering similar things many with competitive prices which leaves the printing of the book taken care of.
Now for a slightly more difficult task - writing the book!
Other on demand book printing services:
Lulu, My Publisher, iUniverse, Picaboo, Booksurge, Qoop, Xlibris