# 'Vanity' press questions about publishing my own book (or booklet) cheaply.

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 29, 2002, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-press-questions-about-publishing-my-own-book-or-booklet-cheaply/111300 "2002-05-29T05:08:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2002, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-press-questions-about-publishing-my-own-book-or-booklet-cheaply/111300/21 "2002-06-01T18:59:11Z")

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astro, what an interesting idea! If it looks like I will be sinking over $500 for a book (and I don’t know that yet) then yes, I might as well consider buying the equipment and doing it myself! Yes, I have a decent scanner. And I’m quite the Photoshop goddess (well, not really, but I like to say so) so I have no problem handling graphics.

I am primarily on a Mac, is there Mac software that would do the same thing as MS Desktop? I already have Quark (not that I really know how to use it) but I am not sure that is too “high end” though. (I obviously need to learn a lot still!)

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