What sort of monetary costs would you incur with producing an e-book?
I’m not sure about how a paperback would go, but I don’t doubt there are binding services that allow for independent publishing like that. I would just be concerned about publicity. I’m not sure how much revenue you’d be able to generate without some kind of distribution channel. Lee Doren wrote a book and put it out exclusively in electronic form on Amazon for $.99 and it did quite well. It ended up being #1 in the Education Section for a while, and I’m pretty sure it all went straight to his pocket (well, all 35% of it anyway…I believe the Amazon rates are 35% royalty on anything between $.99 – $1.99, and a 70% royalty on anything more than $1.99). (Here’s Amazon’s page about it, and here’s a video.)
However, Lee Doren had over 30k subscribers on YouTube at the time, so he was able to publicize it pretty well (not only on his own channel, but he ended up doing interviews on Reason.tv, and radio shows and the like).
It would be interesting to see if you could get it in the Mises Store. It would take some doing, but I would definitely look into it if you’re serious about getting it written. It could definitely be worth it if you could get the store to carry it, and then get them to publish a Mises Daily and/or LRC article (which you would write, I guess) giving a good overview (kinda like this and this).
If you’re serious about the project I would get a draft written and then get in touch with Brandon Hill in the Mises Store.
If it’s good enough, they’ll carry it.