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(...) for (...) Hi Bram, (changing newsgroups a bit) I would be wildly more likely to buy a book of the stuff that you think is best from across your themes than to buy instructions for one thing. If you could produce something that included glossy (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Which models do you suggest? (...) It still sounds like a heck of a lot of work and a huge investment of time (and possibly money), and I don't have much of either. But if it's worth it, I might consider it. (...) Can someone who has (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.publish)
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(...) You will find that printing in colour is a lot more expensive than black-n-white. Perhaps an alternative is to publish on a CD-ROM, which is cheap to produce and distribute, and then people can choose to print individual pages if they wish. (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Indeed. Order of magnitude or thereabouts! (...) And copy. (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.publish)
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(...) That’s one reason why I will not create a model for selling. 1. Too many gray pieces 2. Printing, plus pieces would not make it cost effective. 3. Too much work! lol But, truly the best time for the market was before brickbay, if anything (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.publish)
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(...) I don't think it's as simple as what _I_ would like (but I'll give suggestions in a minute). It depends on how you're putting it together and marketing the book. If it's going to be made to look like a catalog for a spaceship manufacturer, (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.publish)
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"Christopher Weeks" <clweeks@eclipse.net> wrote in message news:GqE3rF.9t@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) wouldn't (...) [ ... snipped ... ] It has been my experience that capturing a model in one of the LEGO CAD tools (I use ML-CAD) (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.publish)
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(...) True, it is easier to copy, but if someone is wanting to try out the idea of selling instructions for MOCs and doesn't want to make the large capital investment needed to get colour books printed, then CD-ROM would seem the way to go. Yes, (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Going the digital route is definitely less capital and time intensive. Although everyone almost universally prefers print, as the producer of the instructions you would have a tremendous amount of overhead both in terms of time and money if (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.publish)
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