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Any print shop / office supply store will print and bind a provided PDF for pennies per page.


Most refuse because it's copyrighted material. Some are also crazy expensive (Staples ~0.10/page)


The first book, for example, is about $21 in paperback from Amazon and I'm having trouble finding a printer around here who would give me those 416 pages for less. Maybe it starts to make sense if you print several at once.


If they allow you to print it, you might want to look at blurb.com: http://www.blurb.com/pricing#/tab/trade-books

Looks like 450 pages, trade, 8x11 inces will run you about 20 USD with cheapest print/shipping combination (possibly with some added tax on top). (16 for printing, 4 for shipping - and this is for a single book - I assume shipping /book will be less if you order more than one book).

I haven't used them, but they were mentioned here a while back.

A quick google search turns up:

http://www.thebookpatch.com/#calculator (looks more expensive for single print runs) and of course good old: http://www.lulu.com/create/books (Appears to be somewhat cheaper).


If you print double sided on a large laser printer, you can print in black and white for about 3 cents per sheet (two pages á ~1 cent, one sheet of paper for about 1 cent). That runs you 6 dollars. A for binding you can use thermal binding for about 50 cents per piece.

So by pure material cost it can be done for 7 dollars (less if you have volume). But of course only if you have access to the equipment, nobody is selling it that cheap.




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