I've published two editions of my linear algebra text through Lulu.com. The quality has been very good for the price. The coilbound versions are especially nice, since they lie flat, while a 700-page softcover with a "perfect binding" seems a bit unwieldy. Generally I've been happy. I include a small markup on each copy ($5) to cover my costs. One caveat, "royalty" check before the last one bounced and I have yet to get a human at Lulu to respond to my queries.
I've been told you have to be a bit careful with how you embed fonts in a PDF (e.g. when using pdflatex) or bad things can happen when Lulu prints it. I have some Ghostscript voodoo around somewhere that fixes things up properly. I can dig that up the incantation if anybody needs it. Last year I put up a quick-and-dirty version of Judson's open-source abstract algebra text through Lulu. IIRC, $12 for a coilbound softcover. This summer some folks at Virginia Commonwealth started a series of open-source texts on Amazon, and Judson's book is in the series. $20 for a very nice hardcover copy. http://www.amazon.com/Abstract-Algebra-Applications-Thomas-Judson/dp/0982406223 Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
