title: Self-Publishing For The Thrifty: All You Need To Know To Create Press-Ready Copy For Print On Demand Publishers
author: Don G. Miller
description: I'm a freelance technical writer who has published a book on writing user documentation and two full-color books with images of Arizona, using CreateSpace.
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  Jonathan Edward Feinstein
  
  
  Taking Time
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Author's Foreword
  
  
  
  
  
  It should come as no surprise to my readers that I actually do have a day-job.
  Recently, I got an interesting and fun tour of the plant of one of my clients,
  which eventually lead to their demonstration room. What they make are
  collating and binding machines. You start with a printing press and hook it up
  to one of their collators. Then you take the collated books, pamphlets, etc.
  stick them on the feeding trays of the binding assembly and out the other end
  you get finished pamphlets or books; sewn, glued etc. in hard or soft cover.
  Pretty nifty stuff, I thought.
  
  
  I also caught myself thinking it would be really neat if I could afford to buy
  such equipment and publish hard copies of my books. It just as quickly
  occurred to me that if I could afford to buy that equipment I'd better be a
  publisher because it would be a colossal waste of money otherwise. Oh well.
  
  
  I had some fun with this second story of the Down,