[Leica] Ideas on LUG Book 2016

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Richard,
from my side, I would say that you should just do whatever is convenient
for you. I enjoy the compilation, in any form, every year.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
wrote:

> There were some vote of confidence that my wife and I should again do the
> LUG book, for 2016.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> PDF can be handled directly by us. Cutting down on cost and order problem
> as well.
>
> 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.
>
> I am still NOT kin on limiting the gears or themes.
>
> Thoughts?
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