Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Great idea, Jim, and I wholeheartedly support your choice of charity. Please make sure to let us know when the interview on NPR has been broadcast so that those of us outside the US can look for the podcast after it has aired. I assume it will be done at WHYY--that was my NPR station when I lived in NJ 1990-95, and we still have several of the mugs from their fundraising drives--amazing that they have survived all the moves... Nathan Jim Shulman wrote: > Evidently the success of the LUG book continues, according to blurb.com. > It's one of their all-time successes, but what they find most interesting > is > the concept of a collective book effort from a diverse (and widely > dispersed) group. > > Today I was asked by blurb.com if I would like to be interviewed by NPR > (National Public Radio) about the LUG blurb.com project. I said I'd be > thrilled to describe the group, the project, and the confluence of > technologies (high-speed web, digital imaging, and digital color printing). > > > Blurb.com noted that there would likely be a spike of interest in the book > and, "you might have a lot more people buying the book, which would make > you > more money." > > Ah, there's the rub. The whole project has only been intended to be a > non-profit activity. I mentioned that to blurb.com (and think that they > were a bit surprised.) > > So, I have a suggestion for the group. For the past week or so we've been > discussing the ethics of photographing the homeless. If there's an > opportunity to sell books, why not donate the proceeds for homeless > services? > > Looking at this optimistically, we might be able to raise a few hundred > dollars from book sales (fifty more copies would probably be VERY > optimistic). For that reason, the donation would have the greatest impact > going to one organization. > > My suggestion is that the profits go to Project H.O.M.E., a Philadelphia > organization that's been providing housing, medical and vocational > assistance to homeless women since 1989. You can see more information > about > Project H.O.M.E. at http://www.projecthome.org/ > > If there are no objections about this from the book's photographers, I will > change the retail price to $60 hardcover/$50 paperback on February 1, with > profits going to Project H.O.M.E. That gives anyone on the LUG who hasn't > ordered a copy a few days to do so for at-cost rates. I will also ask > blurb.com to donate their profits from the book sale for this as well (the > PR alone should more than compensate them for the loss of LUG book > profits.) > > And again, apologies to all who had to suffer through blurb.com's > still-creaky fulfillment process. Evidently the finished product was worth > the wait. > > Best, > Jim Shulman > Bryn Mawr, PA > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands Opportunistic Image Acquisition General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com and http://www.greatpix.eu Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUY DANISH PRODUCTS!