On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Johne Cook wrote: @> This sounds like a "yes" to me. Anybody else hear a "yes" there? 8 ) @> @> The idea is to provide a small printed link that people could see and @> use as a reference to find the books online, thus generating the @> possibility for more sales and word-of-mouth. If www.dreamcafe.com is @> Steve's and the link attributes back to Greg Brown for the genesis of @> the idea, that should be kosher enough, right? @> @> David, how does Cafe Press work in practice? I see the blurb on their @> site, http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/about/: I'm not David, but this is how it works: You sign up for an account and upload image files. You assign the image files to particular pieces of merchandise (t-shirts, mouse pads, etc). You select how much markup each item will have; each item has a base price which pays for Cafe Press' costs, and you get whatever the markup is. Which is the main problem with Cafe Press, actually - the base price is usually pretty close to what the full price of each item ought to be, because it's print-on-demand, which is costly. (And because Cafe Press wants to make a profit too.) So in general it's pretty good for making swag, but not great for making piles of money unless you're wonderful enough to charge $20 for a t-shirt (which, yes, some people definitely are). But it's a lot less of a risk than printing a couple hundred shirts at a bulk rate and hoping they'll sell, so it's probably the right way to go here, and if it turns out there's insane amounts of demand for this stuff the method of selling it can always be changed. Probably somebody should coordinate picking up designs from people on the list (or wherever) and putting them into Cafepress and then sending profits to Steve. (If the URL is problematic due to copyright, it also might be possible to advertise his work on the shirts in some other way. Like: buy everything by Steven Brust right now, or you'll die a horrible, horrible death.)