omnipress, xlibris, P4

[John Unsworth]

OK, consensus is that we should back out of  the deal with Xlibris, and I 
agree.  I'll write Ray and explain: the limitation on paper size is 
enough.  If Tone Merete and Claus think we can afford the up-front cost of 
the offset printing, the quality of that output will clearly be better.  I 
have also struck up a conversation with the director of the University of 
Virginia Press, and she says that the Press can probably provide 
fulfillment services, also marketing, if we want it, on commission.  I 
would recommend this route, though I don't think we probably need the 
marketing--maybe a  listing in their catalogue would be nice, but otherwise 
most of what we'd like to have is fulfillment services--receiving orders 
and shipping them.  I will get a quote from her on what that would add to 
the cost of the volume--it would not interfere with our having the volume 
printed with Omnipress, so we can approach this as a second question, after 
the printing is settled.  I'll call Tom Wagner at OmniPress as soon as I 
hear directly from Claus or Tone Merete that we can, in fact, afford to 
front the cost of printing with them.

John