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Posted By: Hankron

For example, say you as an amatuer wanted to have a professional printer 500 copies of your 200 page book. If it was mostly text with a few smallish black and white pictures and diagrams, it may (for example) cost you $5-7 per book. If, instead, you wanted it fully illustrated in brilliant vivid color like a coffee table book, it might cost you $30 per book.

Many people will complain that a book is illustrated in black and white. However, they wouldn't buy the book if it cost the neccesary $50 needed to cover printing costs. So, when someone is considering producing their book, I usually highly recommend that they skip color and hard covers, and not worry the complaints that the book isn't in color. If there is a great need for color pictures, the book can be nicely and inexpensively supplimented by a picture CD or by a website. This website type supplimentation is something that VCBC could do in this case (though I understand Don may not be looking for more work).