The books I saw were of very nice quality. The person I talked to, who is the founder of the company, is also a photographer, and her prints (in her portfolio) were of very good quality.
In any case, Bob, your suggestions are not at all bad--I might pursue the box of images in the near future. Thanks everybody for the support and suggestions. I am going forward with this, and if everything goes well I will have a first proof of the book during the opening of my show, on Friday the 28th. I'll post about it here. j On 4/18/06, Bob Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Same problem with printing. > Quality is at the mercy of the printer. > How much do you want to spend on this book, > and how big is the production run? > > We used to have problems with high end kids books that sold only > 10,000 per year. > The marketing/sales force would deliberately overestimate sales at > 20,000/year, > so the production run would be bigger and cost lower. Of course > inventory carrying cost was then the problem...along with titles that > only sold 5,000 instead of 10,000 per year. > > Regards, Bob S. > > On 4/18/06, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 17, 2006, at 7:49 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: > > > > > I wonder about books in this digital age. > > > Two suggestions: > > > 1) Sell a virtual book of images...low production costs. > > > 2) Don't do a book, try a BOX of display images. > > > There is a local scrapbook store that sells boxes. > > > Sell a boxed portfolio of your photos. > > > > The problem with option #1 is that there is no way to ensure what > > your images/photos/whathaveyou will look like on a purchaser's > > screen. Lenswork is doing this with their Lenswork Extra CD > > editions ... the user interface is only just "OK", and I luckily have > > a high quality monitor with proper calibration so I think I'm seeing > > about 50-60% of what a printed book or folio might be. But I > > subscribe to both the print and CD versions of the magazine ... and > > there's no comparison to the printed magazine. > > > > Godfrey > > > > > > -- Juan Buhler Water Molotov: http://photoblog.jbuhler.com Slippery Slope: http://color.jbuhler.com
