Comments on: Reviewing THE CRYSTAL STOPPER—a Public Domain Reprints book http://www.teleread.com/net-related-tooks-from-search-engines-to-blogware/public-domain-reprints/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:35:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Peter Reynolds http://www.teleread.com/net-related-tooks-from-search-engines-to-blogware/public-domain-reprints/comment-page-1/#comment-1006606 Peter Reynolds Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:08:38 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/09/06/public-domain-reprints/#comment-1006606 In response to Azrael: I tried uploading a PDF from Google to Lulu and it couldn't recognize it correctly - something to do with fonts. I'd been hoping it might be possible to remove some of the blank and catalogue pages. It really is much simpler to use Yakov's automated process at publicdomainreprints.org. He's done all the work for you and you only pay $1 over the printing cost from Lulu for the privilege (he uses this to rent server space). In response to Azrael:

I tried uploading a PDF from Google to Lulu and it couldn’t recognize it correctly – something to do with fonts. I’d been hoping it might be possible to remove some of the blank and catalogue pages.

It really is much simpler to use Yakov’s automated process at publicdomainreprints.org. He’s done all the work for you and you only pay $1 over the printing cost from Lulu for the privilege (he uses this to rent server space).

]]> By: Azrael Brown http://www.teleread.com/net-related-tooks-from-search-engines-to-blogware/public-domain-reprints/comment-page-1/#comment-916390 Azrael Brown Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:20:45 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/09/06/public-domain-reprints/#comment-916390 If you have to dig through Google Books to find the book, and the product from Public Domain Reprints is just the downloaded PDF provided by Google, why not just download the Google/Archive.org PDF yourself and upload it to Lulu directly? Pricing would definitely be better, and less of a headache to go through a third party. It doesn't appear PDR does anything that requires any special skill, as long as you can follow Lulu's setup wizard. If you have to dig through Google Books to find the book, and the product from Public Domain Reprints is just the downloaded PDF provided by Google, why not just download the Google/Archive.org PDF yourself and upload it to Lulu directly? Pricing would definitely be better, and less of a headache to go through a third party. It doesn’t appear PDR does anything that requires any special skill, as long as you can follow Lulu’s setup wizard.

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