IPhoto Books purchased by others

I build photobooks through iPhoto that have appeal to a limited number of folks.  I have little interest in getting orders and collecting money and distributing books.  I build the books for me, and because these books often contain pictures of other peoples kids  (from Scouting events or sporting events), often times there are a limited number of folks who would like to buy the books also.  Is there a way that I can give these folks a way to purchase these books themselves directly from Apple?  I know that they would end up paying the max shipping, and I am OK with that.

If you follow the instructions in this tutorial, #9 - Archiving an iPhoto 7(08)/8(09)/9(11) Book for Editing and/or Ordering at a Later Date, you can get a small library with just those photos in the book.  The library will be small enough to be able to be burned to a CD or DVD disk from the Finder (do not use the Share ➙ Burn menu in iPhoto).  You could distribute the library on disk for a fee to cover the disks, etc. to those who want to order their own copy. 
All they would need to do is drag the library from the disk to their desktop and open it with iPhoto by launching iPhoto with the Option key held down and selecting the book library in the window. I do that with all my books so as to have a copy to reorder at a later date.
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