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Printed Book

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 10:22 pm
by Arcane_Scroll
In case anyone missed it, somepony has printed out a copy of Fallout: Equestria for a class project and it is beautiful! Once the story is finished (and I hope it goes on forever) I plan on doing something like this for my own book collection.

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Re: Printed Book

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 12:07 am
by AMARDA
I want this Book so bad. It just looks so awesome.

Re: Printed Book

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 2:38 am
by Nightmare Luna
Yeah I think everyone would love this in book form. But you would have to split it up.It would just be to big otherwise.

Re: Printed Book

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 3:19 am
by Arcane_Scroll
I'm thinking at least four volumes at this point, maybe more.

Re: Printed Book

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 3:21 am
by Nightmare Luna
Something along those lines yeah. But where to split the story up is a big question...

Re: Printed Book

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 3:43 am
by Arcane_Scroll
Yeah, that's going to be the hard part, the arcs aren't consistent. But, it sure is going to be fun (and expensive). I would love to do the entire thing like the book linked, but that would cost a small fortune.

Re: Printed Book

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 4:57 am
by otherunicorn
There is probably some Print on Demand service that could be used to print individual copies. A professional print run is of course out of the question, and I really don't like the idea of trying to spit it out of my toy laser printer. I used to print my own fictions with a dot matrix printer! How times have changed.

Re: Printed Book

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 5:12 am
by Arcane_Scroll
Lulu is cheap, I'm going to use it unless I find something better.

Re: Printed Book

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 4:13 pm
by Kashin
Just did a quick experiment with a small printer's pricing (gorham printing).
The price I've found for a four book set (the auto pricing wouldn't let me check on the 1084 page total were up to at this point) is $38.84, if 25 sets are produced. $22.88 for 100.
So, ya. Unless someone is willing to order them in bulk (dropping nearly $1000 in the process) and then sell them to everyone else this would be unreasonably expensive (and the page count is still going up). Still an utterly glorious concept though.

Re: Printed Book

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 5:03 pm
by otherunicorn
It costs over $30 to buy a novel at at bookshop here. That doesn't sound so bad.