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On-demand printing may be a good option for you: http://www.lulu.com/ http://www.lulu.com/

by aoporto 14y ago

nathanbarry 14y ago
That would be very expensive. Looks like at least $30 per copy.
- javajosh 14y ago
  >That would be very expensive. Looks like at least $30 per copy. How do you reconcile this with your previous comment[1] in this thread: My target market is people who are serious about web applications. In an industry where it isn't hard to charge $100-250 an hour for design or development work, $200 for everything included doesn't seem like a lot. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4910124 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4910124
  - nathanbarry 14y ago
    $31 in expenses is a lot for a book that I am selling for $29. I'm not into losing money on every sale. Even if I bumped up the price to $50 for the printed book that is still a crummy margin when you factor in carrying inventory, shipping, and everything else.
    - uptown 14y ago
      Why not bump the price up to what you'd consider a non-crummy margin, factoring in those additional prices?
  - halcyondaze 14y ago
    ? That statement doesn't even apply in this situation. In that statement he's referring to how he's value-priced his product at around the hourly rate of a solid app developer, so purchasing the book (that he's collated together through experience and time) is really not that expensive, especially if you compare it to doing it yourself. In his second response, he's saying that he'd rather not pay $30 to sell a book that he (was) selling for $29 (now $39). One statement refers to value of a product to his target market, one refers to simple profit calculation on his own product.
- cschmidt 14y ago
  Ingram's standard color is meant to be cheaper http://www.ingramcontent.com/MRKNG/2012/52856-29853/29853.html http://www.ingramcontent.com/MRKNG/2012/52856-29853/29853.ht... Don't know about the quality.

8 ms·

On-demand printing may be a good option for you: http://www.lulu.com/ http://www.lulu.com/

by aoporto 14y ago

On-demand printing may be a good option for you: http://www.lulu.com/ http://www.lulu.com/

nathanbarry 14y ago
That would be very expensive. Looks like at least $30 per copy.
- javajosh 14y ago
  >That would be very expensive. Looks like at least $30 per copy. How do you reconcile this with your previous comment[1] in this thread: My target market is people who are serious about web applications. In an industry where it isn't hard to charge $100-250 an hour for design or development work, $200 for everything included doesn't seem like a lot. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4910124 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4910124
  - nathanbarry 14y ago
    $31 in expenses is a lot for a book that I am selling for $29. I'm not into losing money on every sale. Even if I bumped up the price to $50 for the printed book that is still a crummy margin when you factor in carrying inventory, shipping, and everything else.
    - uptown 14y ago
      Why not bump the price up to what you'd consider a non-crummy margin, factoring in those additional prices?
  - halcyondaze 14y ago
    ? That statement doesn't even apply in this situation. In that statement he's referring to how he's value-priced his product at around the hourly rate of a solid app developer, so purchasing the book (that he's collated together through experience and time) is really not that expensive, especially if you compare it to doing it yourself. In his second response, he's saying that he'd rather not pay $30 to sell a book that he (was) selling for $29 (now $39). One statement refers to value of a product to his target market, one refers to simple profit calculation on his own product.
- cschmidt 14y ago
  Ingram's standard color is meant to be cheaper http://www.ingramcontent.com/MRKNG/2012/52856-29853/29853.html http://www.ingramcontent.com/MRKNG/2012/52856-29853/29853.ht... Don't know about the quality.