I am trying to answer a question that a number of my fanfic readers have asked me. I have an extremely large fanfic epic (about 700k words) posted at a website, and people have asked me if there is any way for them to obtain a book version of it.
Now, obviously the first rule of fan fiction is "Thou shalt not try to make money from fanfic." I have no interest in making a single penny from that story, but I would like to help out my readers if I could. I first thought of LuLu, since they have a no-profit option, but their rules prohibit fan fiction. I can't blame them, because there are too many people like that Star Wars idiot running around. I looked at Cafepress, but their prices are a bit higher than LuLu's so I don't know if they are a good option.
Here's my question - what would be the best way to get print copies of my work into my readers' hands? As I said, I want it to be non-profit in every respect. Are there printers you can recommend? Or would the safest option be to put the story into a pdf version and tell them to take it to a local printer? I'm not sure how well that would work, since my readers are very international and I don't know how expensive that would be for them.
Now, obviously the first rule of fan fiction is "Thou shalt not try to make money from fanfic." I have no interest in making a single penny from that story, but I would like to help out my readers if I could. I first thought of LuLu, since they have a no-profit option, but their rules prohibit fan fiction. I can't blame them, because there are too many people like that Star Wars idiot running around. I looked at Cafepress, but their prices are a bit higher than LuLu's so I don't know if they are a good option.
Here's my question - what would be the best way to get print copies of my work into my readers' hands? As I said, I want it to be non-profit in every respect. Are there printers you can recommend? Or would the safest option be to put the story into a pdf version and tell them to take it to a local printer? I'm not sure how well that would work, since my readers are very international and I don't know how expensive that would be for them.