Let's say you had a non-free license epub that you wanted a real nice dead tree copy of? And no dead-tree copies were available.

It wouldn't be appropriate to use a usual print on demand house like Lulu. As you can't reproduce it in mass.

You could use a binding company to bind the loose pages.

But what is the best way to print it up? Especially if you don't want it printed letter size, but more like a paperback?

@satchmoz @maiki
You use linux. You take your epub and make a pdf out of it. Then you put it 'n-up' on letter or A4, w/e you want, BUT you make a 'signature' of it first. That's the name for making page x+z on the back of page x work out right when you are flipping pages in a book.
I would make the signature of it and put it up as 2 pages per a4/85 and use a page slicer (guillotine thing) and then assemble the book using a lot of weight and then glue on the spine. Cover glue later optional ;-)

@gemlog @maiki I think im going to need some more fine tune control on the layout. The text im looking at has tables and illustrations and whatnot, and id actually care if the ilustrations didn't land on the correct opposing pages of the text and whatnot.

Im thinking converting it to HTML and then importing to Scribus and manually fidgeting with the layout might be the best thing to do.

@satchmoz @maiki Don't do the layout then: make latex do it ;-)
That's what it does.

@gemlog @maiki It crossed my mind, but is there an easy way of going from XML/Epub/HTML TO Latex? Honestly don't know.

Id also have to learn Latex, but it seems useful to learn.