@Fin – yes, you can do private products only you can buy. And ISBNs are only ever added if they’re going out to Amazon etc.

My mother, thank you very much, Mr O’Neill! And if we can’t make magazines for our mothers, what kind of world are we living in?

Right on- Lulu is great for just this sort of thing. I just printed my third web content anthology book using Lulu (http://www.newfangled.com/synthesizing_web_content_with_print_on_demand), which was a great experience. I’ve learned a bunch after doing two previous prints, which made this third time around much more effective. I even sent several copies to our clients as a holiday gift.

Best,

CB

I’m with James on this front, Craig — though I love the magazine, the idea of just uploading this static PDF to the website seems particulary backwards and doesn’t seem to compliment the content. This is all said as a yobby member of the gallery, obviously, and not taking into account any of the presumably several issues that have thus far precluded you from doing anything more fancy with the format.

That said, is anyone likely to be reading Five Dials who isn’t on a fairly decent or up-to-date computer/browser? I think you could have a nice little simple site that loads content quickly and cleanly, rather than endless scrolling/tabbing.

Seriously, there is nothing right about PDFs onscreen – they’re designed for printing, they don’t even look the same on all home printers (does A4 print well on American Letter-sized paper? On broken-down old inkjets?), and they don’t actually look the same on all screens, really, particularly on small ones where you have to scroll up, down, left and right to read the text, and zoom in and out to (try and) see the illustrations properly. And many, many people who otherwise would be reading the lovely Five Dials do feel the same way.

But it’s your magazine, and I do like it. Thanks for your ongoing work producing it.

If we were to offer half of what our designer’s getting you might be able to afford one of those half-size Pret sandwiches. What’s wrong with our beloved PDFs? You may not like them but they do tend to look the same all over the world, no matter which computer/browser you’ve chosen.

The anthology looks great though. You’re right: we’ll have to start anthologizing.

As ever, thanks for your ongoing interest.