Rob Buckingham wrote about Richard Vance in 040613 MMDigest:


>> I would like to suggest, as an appropriate tribute to him, that
>> his electronic text on how to rebuild the Aeolian Orchestrelle be
>> published in book form.  I realize that this will be difficult ...


Self-publishing has become quite easy.  Printers are all over the
Internet.  The term is POD or Print on Demand.  Create your book in
Microsoft Word and submit to the printer.  A perfect bound book of
50 pages with 10 color pages would probably run $4-5 a copy in runs
of 100-200.  Single color printing would probably run $3.  Case
binding (hardcover) would add about $6 to each copy.  Kinko's can
even print your book.

Jim Divoky

 [ Richard Vance's electronic book, "Rebuilding the Aeolian
 [ Orchestrelle 58-Note Player Reed Organ" is published at
 [ http://mmd.foxtail.com/MMD/Tech/AeoW/index.html  It consists
 [ of approximately 790 color photos and drawings and 80 hypertext
 [ (HTML) files, a total of about 25 megabytes.  I have no idea
 [ of how many printed pages it would fill.  -- Robbie