Full color is, sadly, unlikely. I've looked into the pricing of books with full color interior throughout. It looks to me that for a 128 pp book, printing 4/2 (four color one side/two color the other...you could do this with clever design and people wouldn't notice it was not all four-color-process throughout) throughout the interior, we'd have to charge $35-$50 (depending on quantity). That's for 128 pp. Feng Shui is 256 pages right now. That wouldn't quite double the cost, but would probably boost it to $60+. The real bite is on the viability of reprints, which involve smaller quantities. You have to set pricing so that reprints are economical. (That probably would mean $70+.) If it looked like we'd be selling a lot more copies than currently is the case, volume would help the pricing immensely. Maybe going full color would help draw those volumes...but, mmm, I'm a bit risk averse, since trusting that such would occur helped kill Daedalus in the first place.
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