[Leica] Ideas on LUG Book 2016

[Richard Man]

True, if NO one participates, that makes my job easier! ;-)

So I hope someone will participate!


On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
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> I admire your perseverence, but I shall not be participating. Just too
> many changes from the project I initially joined a decade ago. My view is
> that the project has had its day but that it is time to move on—for me,
> anyway. Obviously, if others wish to submit and to buy the books, all power
> to you!
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> > On 25 Aug 2016, at 21:09, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
> wrote:
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> > There were some vote of confidence that my wife and I should again do the
> > LUG book, for 2016.
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> > I know there were some complaints about our sequencing of the images.
> This
> > part I would like to keep, unless there are too many objections.
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> > The big problem is that the cost of the book is too high. One possibility
> > is that we go with softcover only and have a commercial printer handling
> > printing in US and we will ship them out ourselves via Media Mail, which
> > quite inexpensive. The commercial printer also gives a bit better pricing
> > than Blurb. We have a couple web sites that take credit card or paypal so
> > it's not an issue. People can also send checks.
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> > For non-US, we can still use Blurb. We should be able to find a size and
> > soft cover option so that the one from the commercial printer and Blurb
> > will look similar.
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> > PDF can be handled directly by us. Cutting down on cost and order problem
> > as well.
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> > Nominally the book's profit goes to a non-profit. Perhaps we should
> change
> > that and request an "entry fee" of $3-$5 where the entire fee goes to the
> > non-profit.
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> > I am still NOT kin on limiting the gears or themes.
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> > Thoughts?
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