Printed Book

[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.

[AMARDA]

I want this Book so bad. It just looks so awesome.

[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.

[Arcane_Scroll]

I'm thinking at least four volumes at this point, maybe more.

[Nightmare Luna]

Something along those lines yeah. But where to split the story up is a big question...

[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.

[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.

[Arcane_Scroll]

Lulu is cheap, I'm going to use it unless I find something better.

[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.

[otherunicorn]

It costs over $30 to buy a novel at at bookshop here. That doesn't sound so bad.