Tiny business idea..

[nosse]

I just got an idea.

I would really like to get some of the articles on web pages I have bookmaked but newer actually read, as a printed version.

I would be willing to pay for it.

And I'd might like to get a book with a title "best of hacker news in 2009"

You're welcome to steal my idea.

[trickjarrett]

So the idea is to provide a service where people can submit articles or blog posts or threads and print them in binding?

[nosse]

Sorry to bother you folks, different web authors licence their stuff with such a variation of licenses that it would be practically impossible to sell customed collections of printed articles.

That is kind of funny, because it wold be quite easy to more than compensate lost revenue from adds.

[eob]

I met an English professor this weekend who was interested in how to best archive one's digital life. He recently went through the last N years of his email, copied the most treasured or important ones, and then had them bound into a book.

It seems like a pretty cool idea.

[sam_in_nyc]

When the book "Best of HN 2009" sells, who gets money? The people who wrote the comments? HN? The business that printed the book?

[unalone]

Use an API combined with Lulu? Probably wouldn't be too hard.