I know I would gladly pay for a large portion of funds for new equipment. Another option, of course, is PoD, which I could likely cover up front for the initial book run. I have no choice now but to act quickly and will be assembling a methodology, layout and look and feel to my book within the next few months. I'll try to keep folks up to date, as I see no reason why we shouldn't share this design if the work is done and it eases our life.
In all honesty, I want to pay attention to making quality books with fantastic design, layout, texture, feel, and readability with little to no fluff, aside from the occasional annotated version or editors note and forward. Likely reimagined diagrams of course, or at least ones vectorized.
I'm currently working on some of the base plans around this. I contacted a few folks in the past on the forum, and some showed minor interest in helping out, and I'm always up for help and will set up teams and forum when its time.