Last month we had some discussion encouraging John Delacore to publish a book, now Jurgen is putting up his hand. I think that it is possible these days to do small scale publishing with the help of internet based companies. My wife Sharon works with a girl who just printed a book with http://www.blurb.com/ . According to her, the result is a beautiful and very professional looking publication. Another company is http://www.iuniverse.com/ . I have no personal knowledge of them; does anyone else know of them or others? Searching for "self publishing" shows many sites. There are also "print on demand" services such as http://booksandtales.com/pod/index.php , which will try to sell your book for a fee, rather than just printing it for you. Scott Jackson ----- Original Message ----- From: David Boyce To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:10 AM Subject: Re: [pianotech] fiber This list is a wonderful exchange and repository of superb photographic and other material and insights on repair and rebuilding. JDs beautifully illustrated articles are among the finest, of course. A year or two I mooted the notion of a book, and suggested semi-humorous alliterative chapter headings. A problem is, however, that such a book would be for a "niche market", and there is little money is publishing for niche markets, and the unit cost of a full-colour illustrated technical book for low volume sales would be entirely prohibitive. The standard of colour photgraphs of all sorts of interesting piano things on here is superb. You realise how good it is when you look back at Reblitz in black and white. It's good, and when first published wa a quantum leap above anything hitherto. But visually it ain't a patch on what COULD be published, if there was money in doing so. But let's face it, no publisher is going to produce a full-colour-photo book of piano technical articles. Reblitz continues to be published in black and white, to make it affordable. What then are the options for the superb material here, such as JDs? Perhaps a manual on CD Rom, which could be produced at minimal cost, and which could of course be replete with crystal clear colour illustrations. Purchasers would then have the option of printing out any parts of it that they wanted, at their own expense. I don't think that any hard copy form of publication is likely. What do others think? Best regards, David. >Amen. >JD must be published; at least in the Jounal if not in a publication of his >own. >Scott Jackson ----- Original Message ----- > >> Thank you, JD, for your information about this repair. Your technical >> articles belong in a piano repair manual. The whole presentation, with >> excellent photos, surpasses anything I've seen before. >> >> Paul McCloud >> San Diego -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090407/e34d6b83/attachment.html>
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