[Leica] other options for LUG Yearbook

[Geoff Hopkinson]

Blurb has an option to publish in an economy or premium magazine format.
Their claim is that the quality equals news stand publications.
As an example, the base cost (with no markup) for the premium option with
100 pages is USD $21.99 plus postage. The prices and options are all
publicly viewable on the Blurb sites of course.

Regarding the PDF option (vs. an eBook for iPad) I considered this for
2014. Some members expressed concerns to me and I opted not to offer that
option , promising not to do so as to allay those concerns.
Those included that any image displayable on a computer screen may be
saved/duplicated at the displayed image quality/resolution.
Hence contributors' images could be copied without control (which of course
applies to any image on-line at all). So if contributors were sensitive
that their images might be copied without permission this is an issue. That
is a whole topic on its own of course.

The PDF optionally Blurb generated and downloadable by the editor (last few
Yearbooks published in print) does not appear to have any copy/read
protection at all, so anyone having a copy of the file can duplicate or
distribute it with no control by the editor over that. For interest the
files range from ~76MB to ~260MB

If a document is generated as a PDF with Acrobat or similar (not the free
version) security restrictions can be implemented.
However someone else such as Brian, would be vastly more knowledgeable on
that topic.

Cheers
Geoff
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