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Subject:Re: recommendations for Print on Demand vendors From:Richard L Hamilton <dick -at- rlhamilton -dot- net> To:"Stephen Arrants" <steve -at- mbfbioscience -dot- com> Date:Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:59:33 -0700
Steve,
XML Press uses Lightning Source (http://lightningsource.com). Lightning Source distributes through online and brick-and-mortar retailers, or you can use them for fulfillment and sell direct.
We use them for distribution through retailers, so I don't know how convenient they are for direct sales.
Other options that will let you set up a "store" are lulu.com and createspace.com. They might be better choices if you want a web site for your customers to purchase books, but don't want to sell through retailers.
All three are easy to work with. Lightning Source is probably the most demanding, because they mostly cater to publishers. The other two are "newbie" friendly.
On Mar 14, 2011, at 7:14 AM, Stephen Arrants wrote:
> We are moving from including printed manuals to letting the end user
> either print out the included PDF or ordering a print manual from a POD
> vendor. Does anyone have any experience and/or suggestions for vendors?
> The vendor(s) would print and ship without our involvement.
> Our current printing vendor dropped out of the business.
> We've already surveyed out user base and majority use online
> documentation only; remaining users said they were OK with POD.
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