Book Publishers

[gem22]

Can anyone point me in the direction of a publisher that might be interested in producing a booklet about the men commemorated on our village war memorial?

Some years ago the village society approached the local branch of the RBL to see if anyone would be intersted in helping with a project to put together a book about the village. The RBL would look after the section dealing with the war memorial and the men named on it. Having been presented with a mass of information produced by the two men who took on the project the village society appears to have gone cold on the idea and nothing has happened for three years.

The person dealing with the WW2 names has decided to go ahead and have his work privately printed. Due to strong differences in style and temperament the gentleman dealing with the Great War casualties has declined to follow the same path. However after a little cajoling from me he has agreed to hand over all the material to me and I will see if it can be published. I have a vested interest because I travelled a lot in France and Belgium photographing memorials, cemeteries and headstones, for inclusion in the book. The area covered was bounded by Etaples, Rouen, Paris, Mons and Ostend. Whilst I'm not interested in any financial reward for my efforts I would still like to see this through.

So if anyone can help with recommendations it would be much appreciated.

Garth

[Malcolm]

Garth,

I produced a book on my local Memorial in 1999/2000 and did part of it privately but I got a lot of assistance with binding etc from the Main Library in Edinburgh. The manuscript was copied in the printroom of my local school which was a lot cheaper than print companies and the Library bound it professionally keeping six copies for their libraries (4 local, 1 reference section main library, 1 genealogy library) I also gave copies to the local churches and the two local High Schools for 11th November.

Local businesses may help out when they know you are getting Library support.

It's worth asking.

Aye

Malcolm

[Kate Wills]

Garth,

We discussed a similar question last November, in the 'Other' forum. This link should take you there:

http://www.1914-1918.org/forum/index.php?s...owtopic=196&hl=

It might also be useful to retrieve a thread concerning copyright which also came up a while ago. Try entering copyright in the search box.

[gem22]

Malcolm, Kate and John

Thanks for your suggestions. I will follow up your leads and report back in due course.

Garth

[Fleur]

you could always try Great Northern Publishing - they print as well as publish.

OR, self publish which isn't too difficult.

Find yourself some local shops that will be happy to carry your book for you and then go to a good printers and ask them to typeset and print your books for you.

The more you have printed the cheeper it will be .... but another option is to self print if you have a decent desktop printer and bind it yourself with a plastic comb binding machine (about £70 or less, combs cost next to nothing)

I recently bought an academic book which had been self published and advertised on the internet whihc was bound this way.

It is a terrifile cheep way to publish as you print as required and don't get stuck with hundreds of copies of books that have to be paid for up front.

Fleur

[christine liava'a]

Also see this thread budding authors

[John_Hartley]

Garth

Apologies for deleting my original post (which I did because it might have contavened Fourm rules about advertising another site). However, a further suggestion of sorts. I'm sure that when I get my copy of Stand To there's always a leaflet from a company specialising in short run printing (there's photos of memorial type books). Havnt kept a copy but someone out there may well have it.

John

[MartinWills]

To run on from John's comments - publishing does not necessarily mean paper. One solution is to consider web publishing and there are several people active on the forum who have successfully pursued this approach. Well worth considering!

Another approach might be to consider publishing in a CD-ROM format.

There are a number of companies that specialise in short run printing using digital and/or print on demand technology. The two names that spring to mind are printuk and Anthony Rowe, but there are plenty of others which a google search will find for you. You will also find that a number of people have produced web pages detailing their own experiences in adopting this approach.

Martin