Local History Publications

horseshoes | 18:02 Wed 30th Nov 2016 | Arts & Literature

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My friend and I are considering writing a local history book in the new year. Do any of you have any ideas of how we go about getting it published. We only thought of it today so haven't researched publishing as yet. We do have a University with a printing department in our city. Any help or tips gratefully received.

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Tuvok

Depends how many copies you want to print.

If its just a few then there are sites that will print copies for you.

If you want to sell them then you need to get an ISBN number - but I think you can only get them in blocks of 10 numbers.

horseshoes

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Oh we'd definitely want to sell them!

jno

https://www.lulu.com/

horseshoes

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Thank you jno. Lots to read there.

jno

I've used them myself when I was putting my family history into a book. (You basically do it by writing it onto Word or similar programmes, turning it into pdfs, then uploading them.) It costs nothing to publish, only to print - about £3 a copy for 80 pages - plus p&p, but they often have special offers. You can print as few or as many as you want. I was just doing it for family but if you want to sell to the public you can arrange ISBN numbers through them, and sell through them, Amazon, Ebay, or anyone you can persuade to stock it.

jno

should have said the £3 is for black and white, colour will cost more.