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Unrelated: I do a digital magazine too, people can download the PDF. I'd love to give the people to opportunity to buy a printed copy if they want to (and maybe
by 101008 7y ago
Unrelated: I do a digital magazine too, people can download the PDF. I'd love to give the people to opportunity to buy a printed copy if they want to (and maybe do some profit on the side). I think that's a good SaaS idea: upload your magazine in PDF and let the startup do everything, from pritning to shipping, and get a cut on that.
- solarkraft 7y agoMy gut says that this must already exist.
- reaperducer 7y agoI can't think of the name of the service, but yes it did exist around 2003ish. I don't know if it's still around.
- finger 7y agoIsn’t that the definition of a publisher? They publish your content in a chosen format and you get a cut of the profits? Either way, Amazon, for instance, has a service for publishing books.
- ergl 7y agoThis is mostly what Blurb (https://www.blurb.com https://www.blurb.com) does!
- wilde 7y agoBlurb is amazing! They printed a photo book that I gave to my fiancée when I proposed. Top quality printing and an easy to use app to create the book.
- scraplab 7y agoI was a co-founder of Newspaper Club (https://www.newspaperclub.com https://www.newspaperclub.com) (but left a few years ago). They do this sort of thing, such as printing internal and public papers for Facebook, Mailchimp and Spotify, amongst others. We briefly ran a full online marketplace for individual copies printed on demand and shipped, with a revenue split, but it was too difficult to make the economics work. However, if you need to print a few hundred copies and send them all round the world, I expect they can organise that.