British Military Airfield Architecture - Paul Francis

I would also buy A copy of your book. Lars S. Knudsen, Denmark:-D

I would have thought that a publisher would be interested in doing this, and trump up the costs at some stage?
Airfields/architecture seem to be very populor now and a book with your knowledgable text, various photos and the likes of Stevos & P Bellamys' virtual creations would surely be very well recieved?

PS, what happened to spell check on this site?!

What about trying Haynes? Their Owners' Workshop Manuals for aircraft, tanks etc are doing well. some of them are very good. A WW2 airfield manual could work ...

Why not just do self-publishing/print on demand? Services like Lulu ( www.lulu.com ) let you do that.

It's a legitimate book and you get a ISBN number which allows it to be searched for and even purchased via their preferred book retailer.

The beauty of self-publishing/print on demand is that you don't have to do a run and have stock sitting around. They just print the books as they are ordered.

OneEighthBit;142159 wrote:

Why not just do self-publishing/print on demand? Services like Lulu ( www.lulu.com ) let you do that.

The few books I've had from them have had terrible quality 'Perfect binding'. Some with glue extending a couple of cm into the pages, some with almost no glue. Fine if the books are never actually going to be opened but an expensive mess if actually used often.

A small print run at the quality of Paul's original book would be prohibitively expensive. Publishing on here is a good compromise (though it doesn't compensate Paul for the work he is putting in!).

This small publisher is quite good & publish history books and novels www.graficas-books.co.uk/

Fair comment jorge - I agree I've wondered about quality issues but I guess it varies from producer to producer.

I think the *concept* of self-publishing/print-on-demand works for small volume specialist interest books but of course, the end result has to be worth the effort.