stationer

You may be able to obtain a simple `will form' from a stationer, news agency or online.

For people who don't know, a real stationer would have 10x the number of SKUs that Staples and Office Depot carry.

A real stationer used to have dozens of shapes and sizes of elastics, not 3 or 4 choices you have now.

It was not hard to obtain; any music shop or even stationer had it.

Those huge arts and crafts stores like Michaels do have an overlap with what a real stationer used to be, but it's not a superset.

Go to your local stationer and find out how much it would cost for 200-300 sheets of high quality paper, then ask a printer about the cost of printing content on them.

I'd love to be a stationer, then add a book section (for rare, old or special books), and maybe if things go well enough, have a small tea house section.

As a product for example, Moleskine (arguably the brand leader) most recently reports nearly EUR 175M in sales - nearly double that of Evernote, and you have many good alternatives in any stationer for just a few dollars.

Today's "warehouse" stores are a lot less fun that a real stationer.

"stationer" - place to buy office supplies before Staples/OfficeMax/OfficeDepot.

As printing replaced hand-copying, enforcement of "authorized" printing (as in printing only what the government approves) came to include the "copy right", a rule devised by the Stationer's Guild wherein only certain printers were granted the privilege of printing certain books.

For books that was the case in the past with the Stationer's Company in England.

Piracy has been used to describe mass copyright violation for profit since about 1603, for a breach of a Royal Charter granting monopoly of publication to the Stationer's Company.

Everything had to pass through one of the members of the Stationer's Company.