HubBooks: Print Copy
NO, you are not the only one. I have often wondered the same thing and see it as a possibility of not only having your work in book form, but it would make it easier to publish it down the line. So it is a great idea...
You're not the only one. I've never really thought about wishing HP would offer it, but I have wished it could be easier to do it if someone wanted to. Separate from what Hubs are supposed to be, or what I want to do with any of them; they're my writing, and - if nothing else - I'd like whatever I've written in hard copy so (uninterested as they may turn out to be) my future grandchildren/great-grandchildren might be able to have my words and get a real feel for the issues/matters of life in the time when they're late grand-mother/great-grandmother lived. I sure wish I had such a collection of writing from the people who came before me. It wouldn't need to be a "great novel" or only about the main things in an era. (We tend to have no shortage of that kind of history.) I'd like some up-close-and-person writings of the smaller ingredients to a life, a family history, or an era.
I have copies of everything, and do plan to eventually get everything on paper or in some book form (not for sale - but just for that reason I just mentioned).
But, I understand that HP has its own aims for Hubs, and I have mine (even if I share some aims with HP) for my own writing (regardless of how mundane or uninteresting it may be). No matter what I write, though, for whatever reasons, I do put it all under one umbrella of "stuff I've written" and would like it all in one place offline. (After my mother died I found in her mail and papers a few notes like, "Make sure the basement door is closed. I don't want the cat to get at the turkey." (
) THAT's the kind of "writing" that can bring real "life" to the kinds of proper-writing or dry, factual, less personal, papers that tend to get carefully stored in fire-proof boxes.
So personally, I'd like a simple way to have Hubs bound in a book or notebook, but I can certainly understand why HP wouldn't be interested in offering that too. It's just, maybe, that some people don't always go solely by what Hubs "are supposed to be" and have their own reasons for thinking one thing or another might be a nice thing to have. (I save copies of any of my professional writing too, as long as it isn't confidential.
Lots of different reasons to want to do that too, even though its primary use has nothing to do with me, personally; or my life, or any wish to sell it in book form in some point. 
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These places charge a small fee, so you are incorrect, Marisa, if Hubpages would charge for the service. Don't know if it would get enough interest though.
How is the housing bubble doing down in Aussieland, Marisa?Well that's true, IF HubPages charged a fee it would be worth their while - but only if there was enough demand to make it worth doing the programming work.
There's still a lot of conflicting talk, and a lot of complaints about prices being unaffordable - but after a lull over the winter, the market is quite buoyant again. So I guess you could say it's still bubbling along
That's the one thing that has stopped me from doing that kind of thing before this - having to read all of my own crud, find errors in thousands (maybe millions) of words, and fix them all.
Cagsil; I don't think she is missing the point. I believe that if HP were to offer your work on a printed medium like a book for example, hubbers could buy them for purely personal reasons or they could sell them.
It's just a nice idea which has some appeal....
Now if Harper Collins came up to me and said, "Hey Melanie, your hubs are awesome and we want you to take your hubs and write a book and we'll give you some buttkicking royalties," I would say, "They better be good because you made me nearly freeze to death for crappy pay in your warehouse, but okay... as long as you allocate your profits to anyone but Rupert Murdoch" and then I would go to Barnes and Nobles and buy the book... as long as the cover art was awesome.
I'm thinking New York Times bestsellerYou mean T-Reax and Tricearatahps? The accent even annoys me and I've got it bad.
He's got liddle earms.
Fortunately I don't have it as bad as my mom, she sounds like Michael Moore. She drives a Kyair (car).
Well I have to admit this is a fantastic idea
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