Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Being unemployed and able to live off of a meager amount of money, I >am thinking of publishing a book of my photographs. >I am hoping this could support me enough to continue taking photos >and living in China! >I can handle all of the publishing (I live in China, where most >books are published anyways). > >What I want is a general idea of what prices I could charge in the >USA for say an A4 sized hardcover with 50-100 pages mostly b&w with >some color? >Any other format/price suggestions? >Many of you have seen my phots posted through the LUG, Does anyone >think I could ACTUALLY SELL any of these books if they where printed? >What might be a good number of copies for the first run? >Any ideas on places to sell them? > >Thanks in advance, > >Jonathan Jonathan, you are clearly in a place where images are exotic enough to sell, and I for one think your images are good enough. The publishing world is a funny place. I'm not sure about china, but in the medical field, if you have a book accepted by an Australian publisher, you will receive royalties for Australia ONLY. ie if they print and sell your book in the UK or USA, you get best wishes -- therefore at least with medical texts, you need to have a publisher with houses in UK and USA, so that you get royalties from both. This is my only experience. I do have some people sniffing around the FOM2 project both as an exhibition and for publishing, but I've not followed that up yet --- I want to get 2 or 3 good years under the belt, and then begin the hard work of setting up the offshoots Cheers - -- Alastair Firkin http://www.afirkin.com http://www.familyofman2.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html