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Got Behind… So A Product…

August 22, 2023 /

Late on Writing and Workshops Tonight…

So nothing here as I had planned. But I have to post something to keep my daily blog streak alive.

Yup, the power of a streak.

So instead I am going to post a fun merchandise thing I have had since the early 1990s and never used. It is a note pad about 3 inches by 3 inches and 3 inches high of blank sheets of paper. About a thousand sheets of thin paper I am guessing. It is called a “Note Cube.”

No idea what this would cost today, or if it could be done POD, but I thought it was cool when I carried it home from a convention 30 plus years ago given to me at a Doubleday party (There is a long dead major publisher.) Amazing it has not yellowed.

If anyone knows where something like this could be produced POD and what the cost would, let us all know in the comments. If not POD, don’t bother. Thanks!

12 Comments

Tink

August 22, 2023 at 3:32 am

I just did a quick Google and there are a number of options 😉

https://www.google.com/search?channel=fenc&client=firefox-b-1-d&q=print+on+demand+note+cube

Here are a couple:

https://printify.com/app/products/768/stik-withit/note-cube

https://www.printondemandbyvinzzep.com/product-page/sticky-note-cube-3

My design work is strictly digital these days so I can’t make any personal recommendations, but research should weed out questionable companies.

Great idea.

I am sure most folks would be intrigued… And of course, once it’s on a desk, always a remiinder!
- dwsmith
  
  August 22, 2023 at 4:14 pm
  
  Thanks, and yeah I hate the Foundation Series by Asimov and I still have the thing in my office. I think it is more of a memory of those old publisher parties back in the late 1980s and early 1990s more than anything else.
Tami

August 22, 2023 at 6:30 am

Printify (POD, dropship, integrates with most shores) does a note cube of about 700 pages with art on two sides:

https://printify.com/app/products/768/stik-withit/note-cube
- dwsmith
  
  August 22, 2023 at 4:15 pm
  
  Thanks.
Bill Seymour

August 22, 2023 at 6:41 am

Hi Dean,

Printify does them I believe. I’ve attached the link to them. I’m also almost certain you are using them already.

Thanks,

Bill

https://printify.com/app/products/768/stik-withit/note-cube?filters=%7B%22facility_region%22:%5B%22USA%22%5D%7D
- dwsmith
  
  August 22, 2023 at 4:15 pm
  
  Thanks.
Connor Whiteley

August 22, 2023 at 9:29 am

Printify https://printify.com/app/products/768/stik-withit/note-cube
- dwsmith
  
  August 22, 2023 at 4:15 pm
  
  Thanks!
djmills

August 22, 2023 at 1:11 pm

In Australia = only one colour for branding
https://www.everythingbranded.com.au/product/desk-cube-574?dfw_tracker=116010-TREN-DESK-574&paid=true&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign={campaignName}&utm_adgroup={AdGroupName}&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIit2-hYjxgAMVi9EWBR0cdQtqEAQYASABEgL2qfD_BwE

In USA = 700 sheets
https://printify.com/app/products/768/stik-withit/note-cube
- dwsmith
  
  August 22, 2023 at 4:11 pm
  
  Thanks. Can’t find the pricing on printify.
Emily Dunn

August 23, 2023 at 6:15 am

Printify cost for cube / $19.95 (less when you subscribe to Printify Premium)
- dwsmith
  
  August 23, 2023 at 11:54 am
  
  Thanks!!