[Leica] LUG Yearbook sales

[Sonny Carter]

I've never thought yearbook's sales main purpose was for charity.

Jim had the idea to tack on a little additional fee for a gift to Project
H.O.M.E. and no one objected.

The yearbook was well underway when he announced that intention.

According to Jim Shulman in the introductory comments of the 2006 book,  "
The project was intended as a yearbook--a collection of shared memories
among friends and colleagues."

and from LUG archives, Jim posted Jan 29, 2007:

The original intention was to produce a book for LUG folks to share.  That's
why the pricing was set at cost--this was a no-profit project.

However, when blurb.com noted that we would be attracting attention to our
book, and since everyone on the list has had a shot at purchasing the book
at cost, why not introduce a charitable purpose to this?  That's how the
charity addition came to pass.







On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > The whole purpose of this project was (is?) to gather money for a
> charity.
>
>
> really !
>
> since when is this “the whole purpose” of this project?
>
> You belong to a group that talks endlessly about excellent images, and
> about cameras and lenses that cost thousands, speaking as if you are top
> notch, qualified to know a good image from a bad one, likewise the
> equipment, then run down a book that shows up to two chosen images per
> photographer, drawn from the whole year.  This yearbook sells a couple
> dozen copies, chicken shit.
>
> What a bunch of baloney.
>
> Some of you guys are full of crap.
>
>
>
>
>
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