Can I get a book printed without publishing it?

Question

A friend of mine is having a birthday soon and I'd like to get a print made of a book we both worked on together when we were young. I just want one physical copy of it. The problem is there are some characters from our favorite show in it and I don't want to have it published because of copyright issues.

Answer 1

I suggest you print if off your printer, then use a hole cutter, get a wide binder and put it in it.

Answer 2

You can take the manuscript down to any print shop and have them run off one or two copies, with 'perfect bound' for the spine. If it's just for the two of you, it's a private thing, not something to be sold.

Answer 3

I think you could just go to your local UPS store or Kinko's and have it bound somehow.

Answer 4

You want a print-on-demand service. As the name suggests, they print as many copies as they have orders for, so if you want only one, they'll print only one.



The main ones are lulu.com and Amazon KDP. Lulu will allow you to mark a book as private, so nobody except you can see it or order copies of it, which is useful if the book uses other people's characters. I'm not sure KDP will allow that, so I'd suggest you start with Lulu.

Answer 5

There are websites like createspace where you can get things printed without having to have them publicly available.

Answer 6

yeah just get a printer, you'll need a lot of ink though, books i heard have a lot of words in them

Answer 7

It'll cost you of course and I don't know if a company will want to produce only one book.

Answer 8

Sure, Look for a Classified Ad, Under: "Vanity Press".

You will need to buy a minimum number of copies though.



OR

Self-Publish

Publish it yourself on your home printer, then take it to Staples or Office Depot to be bound.

Answer 9

Any bookmakers or print shops will do that for you. Quality however, is a matter of cost. And few shops will make just the one.

Answer 10

print it on your printer, then have office supply store spiral bind it for you

Answer 11

Self-publish it