The printed version is officially more epensive

Ever since I have been offering a printed guide, I have been printing and binding myself. Printing is no big deal as I have a high capacity network printer (which in and of itself is another story as THAT thing decides that sometimes it doesn't want to print an entire page or even work at all), but the binding is a pain. You know, punch paper punch paper punch paper, bind and again. Anyhow, there comes a point where I run out of guides and have to print and bind more. And I dread binding those guides.

So I go back to the issue of outsourcing the printing and binding so that I don't have to bind them myself, but you know it costs more money. So much more money, in fact, that I'm going to have to charge more for the printed guide. But THAT'S another story.

I hate to do it, because I wanted to keep the guide affordable, but it is 120 pages and, well, having something printed and bound and Kinkos or Copymax is just an expensive endeavor.

Quite possibly I will find less expensive printing solutions. I don't want to print them in volume, because I like being able to change it as I see fit so that people always have current info. And I never like sending out "old" guides.

And heck, shipping costs might go up as well because the guide might get too heavy to be shipped at a first class rate.

So if you are wondering why it costs so much more, there you have it. It just does.