Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I believe there have been and still are publishers who really care and know about quality of content. Of course they also want to pay their bills and earn a profit. And I believe these are the publishers who Mark has in mind. When a premiere, quality publisher puts their stamp of approval on an author well then you've arrived at that premiere, recognized level of acceptance. I agree. I differ only in so far as superb work exists without the knowledge of those publishers or their agents. It's up to the purchaser, collector, reader to determine if the work has merit; not whether a particular publisher has seen it or accepted or rejected it. Ted could peddle his latest book to publishers for the next 5 years without a proper response. Yet, he's made it available to us in this very moment, right now, how cool is that? Very. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On May 10, 2009, at 10:07 PM, Jim Shulman wrote: > I disagree--the only difference between a self-published blurb.com > book and > a conventionally published book is that, in the latter case, a > publisher > thought that he/she could make a buck from your efforts. > > That's it. Quality of the images may or may not be part of the > equation. > > Jim Shulman > Wynnewood, PA > > > At 4:04 PM -0400 5/10/09, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> I usually agree with our George. >> If I came out with a Blurb book tomorrow which I may just do I'd be >> embarrassed to be put in the same category as Ted and Kyle and real >> published authors. >> This is simple and obvious I'd think to most people. >> >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information