There's really no way to make small volume production of books work as a commercial proposition. I've spent the last couple of months looking at it, and I have the advantages of a) lots of spare cash b) lots of spare house space c) mates who upgrade their Docutech machines every year and flog off the old ones cheap. I still can't get it to add up; the paper, ink, binding and distribution costs add up to less than the price of a book. It looks to me as if books are intrinsically mass-produced items.
A religious history of accounting could in principle be very interesting. Double-entry bookkeeping was invented by monks, and there are an awful lot of accounting principles which are actually quite general philosophical principles about time, space and causation in disguise.
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