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Graham Nelson wrote:

> Craig Talbot wrote:
> > "Craig" <cg2@nospamiinet.net.au> wrote:
> > Umm...just one question though. Is it safe to assume that the DM4 is
> > ok to print to hardcopy & bind for personal use ie. one off? (I figure
> > it is but I just thought I'd better check first, in light of other
> > comments in this thread.
> Of course, be my guest. I think the question is whether there is
> a practical way of having a printed edition published and put
> on sale somewhere, and I'm a little sceptical that it's economic
> for anyone to do this for a 571pp book with some quite small type
> for a widely scattered group of people. But I'm not against the
> idea; I just want to be careful of getting into a situation where
> some outside body acquires commercial rights to Inform, which
> could jeopardise its free-for-all position.

Actually, you would be a good person to ask (in addition to Dennis Jerz),
actually:  Does Oxford (or U. Wisc, in Prof. Jerz's case) use a particular
bookbindery for theses?  Any idea on the costs and ...openness of customers?

I doubt, for example, that there is a bookbindery in Brooklyn which owns the
rights to every Masters and PhD thesis that has come out of Polytechnic
University in the last fifty years--I'm going to check those costs early
this week, by the way, since I'm having lunch with my old thesis advisor
already, as it turns out.


