An update on the bookbinding information, BookSurge, a company I use for 100% of my digital printing has now got hardcover books, these have dustjackets and gold foil lettering, their prices are really fair, check em out if you can.
www.booksurge.com
If you need a contact there I can pass along my rep's info.
Oh yeah, the KDE font control panel works 100% with Scribus, so just add fonts in KDE and boom you can use them in Scribus.